Here is the deal. It isn't how hatrd you touch the control, it is how long
you hold your finger on it. So if you tap the control it will change in 5
Degree increments every time you tap it. If you touch and hold the control
it will go up in temperature as long as you hold it usually beeping every 25
degrees. If you have a sighted person around you can ask them to read the
display while you experiment. I have a whirlpool digital stove that I am
using as an example.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Dickhoner" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 5:19 AM
Subject: [CnD] Digital Ovens
We now have a digital oven. My wife is sighted. She put special touch dots
on the oven for bake, start, and a dot to identify where to cancel and
turn off the oven is.
When the oven is heated to the proper temperature it beeps one long beep
to let you know it is ready. The automatic temperature is 350 degrees, the
standard baking temperature for many recepes.
The oven beeps when a sighted person touches the temperature.
My problem is this. My wife called the local agency for the blind and
asked one of the case workers how a sightless person such as myself can
operate a digital oven. This case worker told my wife that digital ovens
are too difficult to operate. She told her that you could touch the
temperature control pannel too hard, and you might set the temperatures 5
degrees instead of one degree.
I see where she is coming from to a point, but if you bake everything at
350 degrees, you are hampered because you have to double or triple the
time of cooking.
Any help that can be given would be greatly appreciated.
Tom Dickhoner from Cincinnati, Ohio
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