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: cookinginthedark-boun...@acbradio.org [mailto:cookinginthedark-boun...@acbradio.org] On Behalf Of Tom Dickhoner Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 6:20 AM To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org 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 Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark