See, you’ve already lost people when you don’t know that it’s a Louis Vuitton bag in the pic. If you don’t know the brand, then you’re probably not going to be a reliable source of information on the specific details of the craftsmanship and quality of their items.

Why I learned, I learned via Sidekicks... thanks Chuck Norris!

likely because it is a “warming” drawer, not a “thawing” drawer. one is to keep already cooked food from cooling as quickly while the other would theoretically be to thaw out uncooked food. the difference is significant.

Yikes! Thawed turkey on low all night seems sketchy as heck. What was she thinking?

Who eats things that smell like shit? I mean besides Vietnamese.

Who the fuck does that? I think your aunt was actually trying to kill you all.

Thawing meat in a warming drawer is a really incredibly bad idea. She’s lucky nobody died.

Food shouldn’t be kept for more than 3 hours there.
Leaving it overnight (at low, too!) is a bad idea.

Wow, what a terrible idea. You never thaw food that way.

Sounds more like her not cooking it properly was the problem.

None of what happened there had to do with the properties of a warming drawer.

Huh? Your story makes no sense. I don’t claim to be an expert, but I’m pretty sure you could soak a turkey in a vat of salmonella overnight, then cook it, and it would be safe to eat. (as far as the salmonella is concerned, anyways). Killing bacteria is at least half the point of cooking meat. (And is why many…

Yeah but so will leaving it out on the kitchen table overnight. A warming drawer is for keeping cooked foods warm, not for heating frozen foods up to a bacteria killing level.

Do you mean that she thought that putting it on the low heat was cooking it? Or that she cooked it after putting it in that thing overnight?

Damn, your aunt is a dangerously stupid person!

Right, that’s why I mentioned that you should only use the warming drawer with hot, cooked food, not cold or room temperature food. I’m glad you didn’t eat that though.

That sounds horrible... Your aunt is also an idiot for leaving food in the “danger zone” for that long. Every single piece of information on *any* appliance always says that the “warming” feature is not for cooking, period.

So glad this was at the top of the comments - I read this article and was all O_O!? because the bottom drawer for my stove is most decidedly for storage, not warming / proving / broiling / etc...

Snopes already covered this a few weeks ago: