Companies are offering 'Sabbath mode' on more appliances to help Jewish users abide by religious laws restricting electricity on holidays. But a feature that freezes an oven’s settings is making some cooks think they broke theirs.
When Brenda Glasscock’s top-of-the-line GE oven recently powered down instead of heating up, she worried her newest appliance was torched.Technical support turned into a lesson in digital-age dogma.
In her effort to bake brownies, Ms. Glasscock, of Athens, Ga., discovered that she inadvertently turned on “Sabbath Mode,” a feature designed to freeze an oven’s settings so observant Jews can abide by religious law restricting electricity on holidays. The Glasscocks tried to skirt that doctrine by flipping the circuit breaker—a trick Sabbath mode is designed to override.
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