The oven has one knob with temperatures on it (in Celsius), one knob with indecipherable pictures...
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...and one set of buttons with equally mysterious hints.
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Yesterday evening, at Tamar C.'s, I looked at the manual for her oven which seemed to have some symbols in common. Boy, was I far off! The symbol that looked to me like little waves of water? Turns out it was actually little flames of fire, i.e., grill/roast. So, I scribbled down the symbols and their interpretations in my notebook and have so far had two oven successes:
1. Last night I set the clock.
2. Just now I made toast from left-over challah. Delish! (And made more especially so because I was careful in my Hebrew label-reading and had managed to come home with salted butter.)
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Speaking of funny appliance symbols... In my Swedish freezer there are different symbols showing which meats are supposed to go in which drawer, I guess because some meats are supposed to be kept colder than others or something. There's a picture of a fish, a pig, a cow, and... a reindeer.
It would be more useful if they had pictures of frozen pizza and ice cream. :-)
My new Norwegian friend laughed out loud when I shared this with her. She's in my ulpan, living in Jerusalem and learning Hebrew so she can use Hebrew-language sources to write her dissertation on settlements and Israel domestic policy.
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