On Wed 22 Apr 2009 06:59:59p, TFM® told us...

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> "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 >
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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?
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>>>> Interesting. It looks like the temperature range is standard... I
>>>> didn't know that but it makes sense.
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> I have a knob inscribed with numbers. Do you remember changing channels
> as a child? Knobs rule.
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> TFM®
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My electric range has a digital temperature setting which ranges from 150-
575°F. I would have been just as happy with a knob, but that's what came
with our appliance package.

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Wayne Boatwright
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