Positioning Racks and Pans

Safety & Cookware Guidelines

• Oven-safe containers only: Place food only in dishes, pans, or cookware approved for conventional oven use. Never place plastic containers, food storage bags, or plastic films directly inside the drawer.
• Keep door openings minimal: Each time the drawer is pulled open, heat rapidly escapes. Open the drawer only when necessary to preserve serving temperatures.
• Open fully when adjusting: Always pull the warming drawer to its fully extended position before adding, removing, or adjusting wire racks and pan support rails.

Using the Wire Positioning Racks

Your warming drawer comes equipped with two wire racks designed to optimize interior airflow and clearance:

• Flexible orientation: The racks can be inserted either front-to-back or side-to-side, depending on the size and shape of your serving dishes.
• Heat elevation: Each rack raises an oven-safe container 1¹⁄₈" (2.86 cm) from the bottom of the drawer.
• Multi-dish temperature management: Because the heating element is located at the bottom of the drawer, dishes placed directly on the floor receive more direct heat. Place delicate items (such as breads, pastries, or delicate sauces) on the elevated wire rack to protect them from high base temperatures.

Positioning Rack

Warming Cookware: Use only cookware approved for oven use. Follow the cookware manufacturer’s instructions.

• The 2 racks accompanying your warming drawer will fit from front to back or side to side.
• Each rack raises an oven-safe container 1¹⁄₈" (2.86 cm) from the bottom of the drawer.

NOTE: When placing or removing racks, the warming drawer must be fully opened. 

Using Pan Support Rails & Steam Table Pans

Select models include two removable pan support rails designed to suspend commercial steam table/hotel pans directly over the drawer cavity.

• Locating the notches: Before inserting pans, seat the pan support rails into the designated locator notches along the top rim of the drawer.
• Model size compatibility: The warming drawer includes 2 pan support rails designed to hold a variety of serving pan sizes. Pan sizes that can be used are 1/6, 1/9, 1/3, 1/2, and 2/3. A full-size serving pan can be placed across the width of the 27" (68.6 cm) and 30" (76.2 cm) warming drawer. Full-size steam pans fit across the width of 27-inch (68.6 cm) and 30-inch (76.2 cm) warming drawers. Full-size pans cannot be used in 24-inch (61 cm) models.

Please refer to the following chart to determine the correct positioning of the pan support rails for each of the pan sizes.

*Full-size pans cannot be used with the 24" (61 cm) warming drawer.