How would it know which one to turn off if you had multiple things on? Timer could just as easily be for add the next ingredient as it could be for stop cooking.
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Mine will turn the oven off but not the burners on top.
Pretty sure that's most oven/stove top timers as many intermediate steps in baking/cooking require set time intervals, meaning rarely do you want things to turn off when a timer ends.
I'm glad I know now, I also learned when the stove gets too hot it does shut off. Because it was off when I went downstairs to get a drink. It smelled pretty burned.
Glad to hear that. I imagine most modern stoves have some safety features built in, but you should still be careful - leaving a pan on a heat source (for extended periods) without anything in the pan can also damage the pan/stove top.
I didn't even know that some stoves have a feature which lets you turn the burner off with a timer!
Our IKEA one does.
I get the impression that this is an IKEA stove thing mostly.
What was cooking?
Charcoal
My wife makes this hair potion with rosemary, you boil it for an hour or so any strain the liquid.
Is it like a hair regrowing potion?
Ohh my only guess was herbal tea (at first I thought maybe a bone broth but they didn’t look sturdy enough for bones).
It's almost done
our oven has a “kitchen timer” and a “cook timer”, the first does what you say, the second turns the oven off. Maybe there’s another option?
thyme lost?
Ours turns it off. Same with the oven.
Guess it depends on your brand
Ours appears to have 2 settings. If you press the timer once, it just counts down. If you press a second time, it will turn off after the designated time.
we have an IKEA - and it took me far too long before we realised there was a little dot on the timer that would indicate which element it was on, and tapping the timer button would cycle through them.