Check your local thrift stores for a round funny-looking metal thing, ca 14 inches in diameter, domed lid. Open the lid, and if there's a heating coil in the top of the lid, you have a table-top broiler in your hands. It's great for roasting chiles indoors. People give them for wedding gifts, bride tries to heat buns with them and burns the buns, so gives the appliance to thrift store. They usually sell them for $2.50 to $3. The trick is to pre-heat the broiler for ten minutes before you put the chiles in on the holey metal rack. Then I turn the chiles so all sides are exposed to heat, and put the puffed and or blackened chiles between damp tea towels to cool. You can also broil meat and other stuff in the broiler without taking your oven apart to clean the broiler. Margaret Lauterbach