Wondering if any foccer can help;
This is a bit of a long shot.
Wondering if anybody has a electric or for that matter dual fuel HOTPOINT cooker with a minute timer,
ie like models DSC60 or HUE61
http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/household-appliances/cooking/cookers/hotpoint-ultima-hue61ps-electric-ceramic-cooker-white-10127659-pdt.htmlIt's for my mother who lives at home by herself and suffers dementia. She likes to use the oven to heat up Wiltshire Farm Foods (WFF) meals.
At the moment she has a well used HOTPOINT HUE62 which has a multi-function multi programmable oven. She switches the cooker on and back off at the wall (ie the dual pole isolator) - a good thing I think for somebody with dementia.
However when she switches on the HUE62, first it wants to know the time. This confuses my Mum as she just wants the oven on. Eventually it stops asking for the time. But though the oven is on the same setting that it was when she switched it off, well the oven won't come on till you move the rotary selection switch (this has settings for fan, conventional, meat roasting, fish, bread etc etc). So she has to bump that one way and then back the other, then select the temperature with the little knob next to the digital display.
The problem I have is sometimes she selects the meat roasting setting. This incinerates a WFF meal, and frankly is a fire risk. So I have to make sure at the mo that I am there every dinner time for her putting the oven on.
Oh, no she won't use a micro-wave and I wouldn't be able to teach her how to use one now.
So I'm wondering if anybody has a HOTPOINT DSC60 or HUE61 or similar.
http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/household-appliances/cooking/cookers/hotpoint-ultima-hue61ps-electric-ceramic-cooker-white-10127659-pdt.htmlIf you do - would you be able to tell me;
If the cooker main oven is on and say set to 140 degrees C (WFF meal temp). If you then knock it off at the isolator. Well what happens when you switch it back on?
I've tried HOTPOINT technical support, but you get a guy who tries to help, but can only send an e-mail to the engineering dept, and well I haven't really got an answer to the question I was trying to ask. Lost in translation I think.
I know this is a long shot, but I don't want to spend 400 quid on a cooker my mother cannae use. But the one she has right now is no longer really safe for her. But there is usually some foccer that knows something about anything.