Let’s Play A Game

Only people who don’t immediately know what the picture is please. And googling is cheating!

Imagine you would like to cook something in the oven. The whole Celsius thing aside, you are presented with this dial (see picture).

Your choices are:

• Upside down mountain range
• Melting Snowflake
• Fan
• Upside down light bulb

Contextually you know that these all must be the basic functions of the oven – bake, broil, etc. But do these symbols really make sense? Not to be a cultural imperialist, but in the US we just spell it out. Bake is “Bake”; Broil is “Broil” – it’s pretty straight forward.

Pretty much we’ve just been using the Fan function with enough success. I did find out from some colleagues (who have been gracious enough to entertain all of my questions with much patience) that the Upside down mountain range is Grill (known to Americans as broil).

For all of the answers have a look at all the possible symbols that could be on a UK oven here: http://www.dreamkitchensuk.com/oven_symbols.html