Find a cooker with a properly controllable grill

benawhile

I'm choosing a new cooker and trying to find one with a grill that is properly controllable.


The best cooker I ever had had an eye level gas grill and was excellent for making toast.


I realise I will not find a modern good quality cooker with an eye level grill but the last two electric ovens with electric grills I owned were very bad at doing toast, or any grilling, yet I can't find any information on the internet about why that should be or how to be sure of a grill that works properly.


The single important factor seems to be that electric grill elements, although they claim to be controllable, actually only have two settings, on or off, and the thermostat switches on or off, which is supposed to regulate the heat, but all it does in practice is alternate between too hot and too cold with varying time differences in between.


How can I find out whether a cooker has a grill that is controllable between low, medium and hot, or better still, gradually controllable like my last gas grill? Can modern electric grills do this, or gas grills?
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Farway

Gas grills can unless something has radically changed since i bought mine
Just turn flame up, down or anywhere in between

sarah1972

benawhile wrote: »

I'm choosing a new cooker and trying to find one with a grill that is properly controllable.


The best cooker I ever had had an eye level gas grill and was excellent for making toast.


I realise I will not find a modern good quality cooker with an eye level grill but the last two electric ovens with electric grills I owned were very bad at doing toast, or any grilling, yet I can't find any information on the internet about why that should be or how to be sure of a grill that works properly.


The single important factor seems to be that electric grill elements, although they claim to be controllable, actually only have two settings, on or off, and the thermostat switches on or off, which is supposed to regulate the heat, but all it does in practice is alternate between too hot and too cold with varying time differences in between.


How can I find out whether a cooker has a grill that is controllable between low, medium and hot, or better still, gradually controllable like my last gas grill? Can modern electric grills do this, or gas grills?
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I have a neff oven that has a fully controllable grill which is fantastic and goes up to 275 degrees when it’s on full surface grill and also has half surface grill.
It’s great for cheese on toast

benawhile

Is it gas or electric?

sarah1972

benawhile wrote: »

Is it gas or electric?

sorry, should of said, its electric

Enterprise_1701C

sarah1972 wrote: »

I have a neff oven that has a fully controllable grill which is fantastic and goes up to 275 degrees when it’s on full surface grill and also has half surface grill.
It’s great for cheese on toast

Same here, although it is not immediately controllable you can control the temperature, although mine is a fitted oven.

sarah1972

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

Same here, although it is not immediately controllable you can control the temperature, although mine is a fitted oven.

Mine is an oven as well as opposed to a free standing cooker, I love mine.

lindens

I have an electric Belling that has grill controls from 1-10