Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Last Shabbat we had an unexpected and unpleasant experience. We have recently had to purchase some major appliances. Since they were all new when we made aliya nearly 19 years ago, we have little to complain of. They have served us well. We had just acquired a nearly-new GE oven to replace our old GE oven, and were using it for the first time on Shabbat. To keep food warm for Friday night, I would usually place it in the oven at a low temperature on time bake to warm for about 2 hours and it would turn off automatically just in time for dinner. We had been accustomed to the three beeps that signaled that the heating time had elapsed. However, this newer model had obviously been “improved.” It beeped three times, and four, and five… and kept beeping every 10 seconds for the entire Shabbat! It appears that you have to turn it off manually.