
And not just that it's, say, five minutes past 6:00. Or that the cake will be done in ten minutes.
Our oven, original to our 1961 house, was a best-in-class cooking/baking/roasting tool of its day. Certainly, that's true if you believe the the owner's manual... which we have. (We, meaning my husband and I, were but a newborn babe and just a twinkle in daddy's eye at the time our house was built... but we bought our house 7 years ago from the original owner, who meticulously kept all original paperwork and every record of updates to our house. We received the paperwork along with the house.)

And not just that it's, say, five minutes past 6:00. Or that the cake will be done in ten minutes.
Our oven, original to our 1961 house, was a best-in-class cooking/baking/roasting tool of its day. Certainly, that's true if you believe the the owner's manual... which we have. (We, meaning my husband and I, were but a newborn babe and just a twinkle in daddy's eye at the time our house was built... but we bought our house 7 years ago from the original owner, who meticulously kept all original paperwork and every record of updates to our house. We received the paperwork along with the house.)