14 March 2008

Kitchen appliance hieroglyphs or Why I Need Oven Translations

This afternoon I went to Cammeray, which is a close-in suburb across Sydney Harbour. Of course I went by bike; the way I went was about 9.7 km, as I did not have a good map and got lost.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1698093

I had to pick up some parts for the washing machine. The door doesn't close right (it's a front loader) and the latch on the door broke re
cently. It's easy enough to fix - so I just ordered the parts and will fix it.

This got me to thinking about Australian kitchen appliances. Most of them are written in Bosch hieroglyphs ... for example, these are the controls on the oven:

17.24 is the time, and for the first picture, I can figure that the middle dial is the temperature in Celsius, but the rest of it ... well ... I know now ...

The dishwasher is not much better ...


but I figure just about any setting is going to get them clean ...



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