08-09-15, 08:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-09-15, 08:11 PM by noggythenog.)
I don't have that cooker Andy but I can possibly give some wisdom on the basis I have an electric hob oven, 5 year old thing which is built in but perhaps the fundamentals are the same.
I always switch mine on off at the plug because it is a fire or burn hazard if I don't......mainly because cleaning the top you can hit the switches by accident and not realise and next thing burn your hands.
Because I switch it off at the plug then it always resets the clock...I don't care as I have a kitchen clock anyway.
To stop the oven just switching on automatically when I hit the power switch...say for example like with your mum she leaves the dial on 200 degrees from previous meal......the timer switch needs to be activated to switch on the oven.....it doesn't mean however that you have to set the timer...you can simply press inwards the button that you would use to silence the alarm.
So that dial thingy im guessing on the pics is to set the timer up and down.......to cancel the timer alarm im guessing that you press the nob inwards.
Try this...maybe it will work.....leave the dial on 200 degrees....switch on at the plug.......press the timer button inwards towards the oven a click stab and woola the oven will fire into life and heat up to 200 degrees. (worth a try they must all be similar)
timers are great though especially for the elderly...in so much that if they forget they have something in the oven it wont keep heating until it ignites......the timer beeps a million times and then switches the oven off.....thing is that is too complicated for allot of old folks so I can also see the logic with your mums switching off at the plug scenario.
Microwaves and the elderly are pretty lethal though.....using margarine tubs in them which leaks BPA everywhere, nuking everything to death....and in the case of my granddad....forgetting that he had put one of those lavender smelling bean bag thingies for bed in the microwave and set to 20 minutes instead of 2 minutes.......cue on fire microwave and him hoofing it out into the back garden on fire........took me a week to clean the kitchen after that because he was too embarrassed to claim off the house insurance........black plastic filth coating on every thing and surface :o
I always switch mine on off at the plug because it is a fire or burn hazard if I don't......mainly because cleaning the top you can hit the switches by accident and not realise and next thing burn your hands.
Because I switch it off at the plug then it always resets the clock...I don't care as I have a kitchen clock anyway.
To stop the oven just switching on automatically when I hit the power switch...say for example like with your mum she leaves the dial on 200 degrees from previous meal......the timer switch needs to be activated to switch on the oven.....it doesn't mean however that you have to set the timer...you can simply press inwards the button that you would use to silence the alarm.
So that dial thingy im guessing on the pics is to set the timer up and down.......to cancel the timer alarm im guessing that you press the nob inwards.
Try this...maybe it will work.....leave the dial on 200 degrees....switch on at the plug.......press the timer button inwards towards the oven a click stab and woola the oven will fire into life and heat up to 200 degrees. (worth a try they must all be similar)
timers are great though especially for the elderly...in so much that if they forget they have something in the oven it wont keep heating until it ignites......the timer beeps a million times and then switches the oven off.....thing is that is too complicated for allot of old folks so I can also see the logic with your mums switching off at the plug scenario.
Microwaves and the elderly are pretty lethal though.....using margarine tubs in them which leaks BPA everywhere, nuking everything to death....and in the case of my granddad....forgetting that he had put one of those lavender smelling bean bag thingies for bed in the microwave and set to 20 minutes instead of 2 minutes.......cue on fire microwave and him hoofing it out into the back garden on fire........took me a week to clean the kitchen after that because he was too embarrassed to claim off the house insurance........black plastic filth coating on every thing and surface :o
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