Cooking appliance incorporating heater energy counter means

摘要: An arrangement for monitoring the approximate temperature of a resistive heating element selectively energized at plurality power levels in response to selection by an operator one settings including OFF, which includes heater energy counter provide information. The is incremented rate approximately proportional increase when selected level. In form invention, decremented lower setting or OFF selected, decreases cooling down level associated with new setting. By this arrangement, count tracks temperature, thereby providing This information can be used energize indicator light exceeds predetermined threshold corresponding above uncomfortably hot touch, remains regardless whether ON until below reference value, visual signal that hot.