What is a Warming Drawer?

Warming drawers are the perfect blend of subtle luxury and modern convenience, each one designed to elevate your kitchen experience with their sleek and seamless designs. While their versatility alone might surprise you, they effortlessly complement busy lifestyles and add a touch of elegance to any cooking space. Whether you're entertaining guests or simply seeking to enhance everyday meals, a warming drawer oven quietly serves its purpose, ready to reveal its diverse capabilities when you need them most.

As your appliance authority, AjMadison not only wants to offer you the best warming drawers for your home, but also empower you to shop our wide selection of cooking appliances like an appliance pro! Let’s go through all there is to know about arming drawers before checking out what some of our best models have to offer.

Are Warming Drawers Worth Having?

Here are a few of the most common reasons an oven and warming drawer set is a great investment for your next kitchen renovation.

Multiple Dishes Can Be Served Warm Together –Have you ever had to cook a meal with multiple courses, entrees, or moving parts? If so - you know it’s a challenge to get the timing right. With a warming drawer oven, you can store dishes for hours without overcooking, spoiling, or drying out your meal. That way, when all the dishes are ready, you don’t need to reheat the sides you made earlier in the day.

Spend More Time with Your Guests While Entertaining –Hosting doesn’t have to be stressful. Instead of spending the holidays in the kitchen, you can have everything prepared and warm in time for your guests to arrive. Relax, sit back, pour a glass of wine, and mingle with your guests. Your warming drawer can handle the rest.

Great for Busy Families with Hectic Schedules –If you find it difficult to track down your family members for dinner, consider a warming drawer oven. Cold cereal isn’t a satisfying dinner after a late night. Instead, everyone can enjoy a warm dinner on their own schedule.

Great for Non-Cooks –Whether your routine is to buy a rotisserie chicken, pizza delivery, or Chinese takeout, your warming drawer is there to support your takeout lifestyle. Whether you’re single or manage a busy family, warming drawers are great to keep your food warm and ready to eat.

Proof Dough – The low temperatures of warming drawers can help dough rise evenly, perfectly prepping it for bread baking.

Prep Silverware and Serving Sets – Warming drawers aren’t just for food! You can use them to keep silverware sets or cups and saucers ready for get togethers.

Support Sous Vide Cooking – The low temperatures of warming drawers make them great for sous vide cooking tender, vacuum-sealed delicacies which retain their nutrients.

Where is the Best Place to Put a Warming Drawer?

The slimline designs of warming drawers allow them to be installed, not just anywhere in your kitchen, but also in any room of your home! Here’s just a few examples to draw inspiration from for your next renovation project.

Beside Your Range – If your range doesn’t have a built-in warming drawer, you can always add a warming drawer under your countertops close by for easy transfer of cookware from the oven.

Adjacent to Your Wall Oven – Similar to your range, a warming drawer can be placed under your wall oven for easy accessibility from a standing position.

Wall Cooking Suite – For a truly luxury cooking experience, you can integrate a warming drawer into a modular cooking suite which includes a wall oven, steam oven, speed oven, and a coffee system from the same brand.

Kitchen Island – Kitchen islands provide incredible convenience when equipping your kitchen with built-in drawer appliances like warming drawers, refrigerator drawers, and dishwasher drawers.

Bathroom or Pool House – If you’re remodeling other areas of your home, consider adding a warming drawer in your bathroom or pool house. There’s nothing quite like a warm towel or bathrobe after your morning shower on a winter morning.

Inside Living Room Furniture – What’s more convenient for Sunday tea with friends than a warming drawer built-in right into your coffee table? Certain furniture pieces can be fitted with a warming drawer for instant serving in warm teacups and saucers.

What is the Difference Between a Microwave and a Warming Drawer?

The main difference between microwaves and warming drawers is cooking power. Microwaves can cook anything, even frozen foods, with concentrated heat essential for evenly baked results. However, warming drawers are best suited for already-cooked foods or food prep, since they can’t reach high enough temperature levels for quick cooking.

How Long Can a Warming Drawer Stay On?

Many high-end warming drawers can stay on for up to 4 hours or more, usually including auto shut-off features for safety. Select models come with Wi-Fi connected smart features so you can monitor them from anywhere in your home and receive notifications on their performance. You don’t have to worry about energy waste either. Warming drawers have low capacities and operate at low temperatures, using about a quarter of the energy of a standard oven.