Do gas stove/ovens have broilers?

[rgG]

Good Gosh, RacerX, even I knew that one, and you know I don't cook.

I am with Rick-o on this one; every gas oven I have had in the past, I have an electric now, had a broiler drawer on the very bottom.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

If you can find a model/product number, you might be able to find a user manual to really answer the question.

[Racer X]

I am pretty sure the tag/plate is on the back. She checked for a tag around the door opening (where mine is on m Kenmore electric stove)

Hey, I grew up in Seattle, where electric stoves/ovens are the norm. Electricity rates in the city of Seattle are usually the cheapest of any electric utility in the entire country. Gas was an oddity in the kitchen up until about 10 years ago.

[what4]

Here's another place to look for the model no.

See if the top lifts up from around the burners, hinged at the back. My gas stove does. Model number is down there, next to the piping that goes to the burners.

Ditto on the igniter. Replaced mind again this year. Symptoms of failure were:

1. varying gas supplied the oven, sort of a fluff, fluff, fluff, about twice a second. Sometimes this made the top burners oscillate from full to, oh, 75% full, in the same rhythm.

2. it heated less and less, spent more time off than it should have.

Replacing the igniter is easy for anyone with a few basic tools and enough common sense to unplug the unit first. You do not have to handle any gas in order to replace the igniter. It's an electric controller for the gas valve, like the heat sensor on the pilot light of many gas heaters.

Cost of igniter: around $70. Cost of comparable new stove, $400 - $600.

[graylocks]

i bought a new gas range/oven 2 years ago. the broiler is in the oven part. this delighted me because i've always found it annoying to have to practically get on my knees to work the broiler.

[lafinfil]

Open the drawer - If it has a broiler pan in it (slotted top that sets in a drip pan) it is a broiler

If you put it on broil and open the drawer and see flames at the top - it is a broiler.

If the front of the drawer flips down to a horizontal position when the drawer is open - it is a broiler.

No flame bars at the top of the oven section and a broiler setting on the dial - it is a broiler.

[Big Daddy Cool]

it is a broiler

[Don Kiyoti]

My gas oven has the broiler on top. The compartment at the bottom is storage for the broiling pans.

[AlphaDog]

[quote Don Kiyoti]My gas oven has the broiler on top. The compartment at the bottom is storage for the broiling pans.
Mine, too. And it's about 12 or 13 years old. I store pan lids in the drawer.

[Gutenberg]

My broiler is in the oven. I love it that way. I can broil with the door closed.