I wonder what brand and model of digital oven Tom is considering. How that one works is what counts.
(Sent from my iPhone) On Apr 12, 2012, at 5:11 PM, "Sandy from OK!" <[email protected]> wrote: > Tom, I have had a digital oven for around 7 years and had no problems with > it. I also have the clear bump dots things on bake, broil, temperature up > and temperature down and off and self-cleaning oven. > Mine has 350 degrees F. as its default, but you just lightly touch the up or > down temperatures and it changes only! In five degree intervals! Never in > one degree incriments. I think it does wonders for making cakes and cookies. > This might sound stupid, but my fear is using the self-clean feature! I > clean it the regular old-fashioned way and you can get Easy Off spray oven > cleaner, but you have to look for the one marked for self-cleaning ovens. My > self-clean feature does not have a lock on the oven. I have never chose to > use it out of sheer fear; if any one has any tips, kindly send along to > convince me. Thanks, and hope this helped. > Sandy > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Dickhoner > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 6:20 AM > To: [email protected] > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > [email protected] > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > [email protected] > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
