johno1234:On the Smeg we just randomly wiggle the buttons and levers until it seems to be doing what we want. There are no useful hieroglyphs to guide you, just obscure symbols. The user manual is Dan Brown's "Da Vinci Code".
Are you sure that's not a Baumatic?

When you press the button by the symbol that looks like the palm of a hand held up the oven starts. No idea what the others do, although they're all highly modal apart from the hand-palm one.