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Bert Hyman
 
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Default Oven Temperature Standard?

In "Douglas Reynolds"
> wrote:

> Anderson noted that an oven's heating elements are either on at full
> power or off-with no middle ground.


In this age of cheap semiconductors, why ->don't consumer ovens have
"proportional controls"?

I'd think that solid-state temperature controls would be cheaper and
more reliable than the relay switching that's used now.

Or, maybe the newest ones do; our Thermador oven is 5 years old.

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Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN