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Mike Hartigan

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Hi Mike,

My apologies for asking this, but is this something relatively new or
has it always been this way? I don't have a lot of experience with
electric ovens because I've always used gas, but this time around I
had to settle for a combination unit because an all gas version wasn't
available.

When I was a kid (1960's), our old Frigidaire did this. Today (still
a kid only bigger), our new Thermador does this. (ours is dual fuel,
not because all gas wasn't available, but because we wanted the
advantages of dual fuel.)

I did experiment with mine just now and here's what I found. There
are basically three heating options I can choose: "bake", "broil" and
"convection" and as far as I can tell all three work independently of
each other. When I turn on "broil" I can safely leave my hand on the
lower bake element and it remains cool to the touch; likewise, the
broiler never comes on when I select "bake" and neither of these two
elements are used when I pick "convection" (that appears to be a third
element hidden somewhere inside the oven's back wall).

Our Thermador uses the upper for broiling (duh!), both the upper and
lower to preheat, switching to lower only to maintain temperature.
The convection setting has its own element.

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