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Mine is 170F also.
John's hunch about food safety temp makes sense.
Pity seeing that modern electronic controls could easily be set for ANY temp over room temp. I'd love for my oven to be able to set to 100F for yogurt culturing and dehydrating things.
John's hunch about food safety temp makes sense.
Pity seeing that modern electronic controls could easily be set for ANY temp over room temp. I'd love for my oven to be able to set to 100F for yogurt culturing and dehydrating things.
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Hi John
Having read the manual and played around with the controls, there does not seem to be any way at all of preventing my oven from entering "hold mode" when timed bake ends. It simply will not automatically shut off at all.
And here's the best bit: if you have the oven set to a temperature LOWER than the hold mode temp of 150 ºF, guess what happens at the end of timed bake. Yep, your suspicions are correct, when the cooking time is up, the oven transitions to hold mode and the temperature INCREASES to 150 ºF. Go figure LOL.
Hi John
Having read the manual and played around with the controls, there does not seem to be any way at all of preventing my oven from entering "hold mode" when timed bake ends. It simply will not automatically shut off at all.
And here's the best bit: if you have the oven set to a temperature LOWER than the hold mode temp of 150 ºF, guess what happens at the end of timed bake. Yep, your suspicions are correct, when the cooking time is up, the oven transitions to hold mode and the temperature INCREASES to 150 ºF. Go figure LOL.
Just out of curiosity, I decided to put a temperature probe in my oven to see how accurately it can maintain the minimum setting of 135 ºF in convection mode and traditional bake mode. It does a pretty acceptable job. In my test, it did appear to wait until the thermostat was satisfied before turning off the elements, so there was some overshoot up to about 150 ºF and then it slowly cooled to about 130 ºF before turning the elements back on.
I decided to try the same thing with the oven and microwave in the flat in Ireland.
The Miele oven can be set as low as you like. Although the dial only has markings from 50 ºC onwards (122 ºF), it works at settings lower than this. Assuming you set a temp that is higher than the current room/oven temp, it will start heating. It does this in a smart way -- the elements do not just come on until the thermostat is satisfied. Instead, it cycles on the elements for a few seconds at a time over the course of several minutes, so that it can accurately achieve and maintain the set temp without overshooting. It did this in both convection and traditional bake modes.
The Miele oven can be set as low as you like. Although the dial only has markings from 50 ºC onwards (122 ºF), it works at settings lower than this. Assuming you set a temp that is higher than the current room/oven temp, it will start heating. It does this in a smart way -- the elements do not just come on until the thermostat is satisfied. Instead, it cycles on the elements for a few seconds at a time over the course of several minutes, so that it can accurately achieve and maintain the set temp without overshooting. It did this in both convection and traditional bake modes.
The combo-microwave can be set as low as 30 ºC (86 ºF) and it did prove to be accurate in my test.
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