When you turn it on, the temperature cannot be set unless you turn it off and quickly back on. Then, and only then, can you select the temperature.
Setting the temperature, however, is no guarantee you'll get the desired temperature.
Two days ago, after the above mentioned ritual, I requested heat of 425*. The oven sang the song of its people when it reached 425 and I popped in the delicious pizza. I set the timer on the oven, my phone, and a hand timer like our mothers' once used. The required time was 20 minutes. When they flew by, the whole house jangled, beeped, and twinkled. The pizza, however, was all brown and sounded like a brick. I placed an oven thermometer in the thing while my hubby and I enjoyed a crunchy brown dinner. The thermometer told me the lying oven was cooking at 450•
Another Pizza. Another day.
Knowing the calibration was off, I placed the thermometer in the oven and went through the on/off/on/set ritual. I selected 400• and waited until the oven sang that my desired selection had been reached. The thermometer decried this claim and swore it was only 300• so I waited. After another 10 minutes had passed, the oven was still only at 300. I reset the required temperature to 415 and soon the oven sang. I popped in my pizza and set my timers. I returned to the oven before the timers went off only to find another brown leathery Pizza. The thermometer said it was just under 450.
And the paint is already wearing off the knobs.
