Hotpoint Ultima HUE61XS Cooker

[Refugee]

In my experience cooker timers tend to be fixed in the manual position firmly with hardened grease.

[boater sam]

Recent experience
Last week, I fitted a new element to our neighbours Hotpoint inset electric cooker, which has a separate grill. After fitting the new element and turning back on the consumer unit main switch, no power to the cooker but grill OK. I checked around with my voltage indicator, zero, and confused. I /we referred to the instruction booklet, it said set manual otherwise no power to the cooker, but how. I/we couldn't see a knob or anything which would turn any thing on. By the way they have had the cooker for more than four years so are familiar with the controls. In desperation I removed the unit, expecting to see a control, all OK, but nothing at the cooker terminals. I reinstalled the cooker and the neighbour said i'll at least set the clock, immediately I had power to the element and fan rotated. My neighbour was ready to go and buy a new cooker.
 I hope this information will be of use to others.

Electronic clock. Timer really, will be off until the clock is set. Flashing digits will mean no power to bake element/s. There will be a marker on the display which shows it is in manual mode.
 Standard way that they work.

[Murphyv310]

Hi Sam.
My Zanussi is the same, no oven if the clock resets due to power outage, it's a safety measure if the occupant of the house goes out during a power cut.

[`FRANK.C]

There was an indecent that happened in a town not very far from here. It was either last year or the year before.

They were cooking on a ceramic hob when a power cut occurred. They managed to get there hands on a camping stove. It was the type that held a Gas Cartridge inside it.
Later that day they were in the back garden when there was a loud explosion and the gas stove went out through the roof of the house.

What had happened was while doing the cooking they had left the gas stove on top of the ceramic hob and left it there afterwards.
When the power came back the electric hob had been turned on since the power cut earlier and ...... well they were lucky not to be inside at the time.

Frank