…to think “set grill to high” is an unhelpful cooking instruction?

[girljulian]

Posting here for traffic because I’m sick of incinerating things and Dr Google, for some reason, could not help me.

When you buy a food item which has to be grilled, why doesn’t it give you the temperature? I’ve tried searching what is meant by “set grill to high” but I only get a lot of American websites about outdoor barbecues. For a British grill incorporated into an oven, what would you consider to be “high”? What’s medium? Do some grills just have low, medium and high settings?

Mine automatically tries to heat itself to 300 degrees C but can go quite a lot higher than this. If I put cheese on toast under the grill at 300, it becomes charcoal in mere moments. So what does “high” mean and why don’t food packets just give the bloody numbers?

if it’s any comfort I’d rather have degrees, my 3 settings are useless, useless, incinerate!

I suppose you could try calibrating your grill if you've got a friend who has one with low, medium and high settings. See how long it takes to brown a piece of of sliced white bread in that on each setting, then see how long it takes at various temperatures in yours to find which matches what.