"James Silverton" > wrote in message
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> TFM® wrote on Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:00:17 -0400:
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>> "Kajikit" > wrote in message
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>>> On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:51:01 -0400, Kajikit >
>>> wrote:
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>>>> Just curious... when you turn our Maytag electric oven on it
>>>> defaults to 350F and my usual cooking range is 300 (for
>>>> spareribs/slow braises), 350 (cookies, cake), 400 (roast
>>>> chicken) and 450 (pizza). But last night I turned the
>>>> thermostat down as far as it could go to warm the oven for
>>>> my yoghurt-making, and it goes all the way down to 170F! And
>>>> being a self-cleaning oven, at the other end of the spectrum
>>>> it goes all the way up to a blazing 550F! I'm impressed... So what can
>>>> your oven do?
>>>
>>> Interesting. It looks like the temperature range is
>>> standard... I didn't know that but it makes sense.
>
>> Older electric ovens went down to 140 IIRC. I know the one I have here
>> is 30 years old and it goes down to 150. I'll post pictures to prove it.
>
>> Some food safety ass decided that we didn't need to hold our
>> food at a safe temperature of 145, so they upped the standard to 170. I
>> dread the day I ever have to use one of those.
>
> i don't know how I could hold a temperature of less than 170F since that
> is the lowest value my digital control will display.


I have a knob inscribed with numbers. Do you remember changing channels as
a child? Knobs rule.

TFM®