# Preheating, programming, and the timer

**URL:** <https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/preheating-programming-and-the-timer/6040>\
**Category:** Anova Support\
**Created:** [April 15, 2017, 6:20pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/preheating-programming-and-the-timer/6040 "2017-04-15T18:20:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![rodneydcunningham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@rodneydcunningham](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/rodneydcunningham)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2017, 6:20pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/preheating-programming-and-the-timer/6040/1 "2017-04-15T18:20:34Z")

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Hello. Is anyone aware of a way to have the ANOVA have the water preheated at a specific time? (I have seen one question about this, but no real answer.)

Put another way: If I wanted the water to be ready for cooking at 09:00, is there a way that I could program the ANOVA so that this happened?

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**Author:** ![RichardOL](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/richardol/32/701_2.png) [@RichardOL](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/RichardOL)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2017, 6:54pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/preheating-programming-and-the-timer/6040/2 "2017-04-15T18:54:31Z")

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You didn’t say, but I am guessing that the water and container are sitting at room temperature for quite awhile and that the food is **NOT** sitting in the tepid water.

Since the time to come up to temperature depends on more than one factor there is no way to generalize. I would do a practice run and see how long it takes to heat. After the practice run you will know, so you can just back up the start time. If the heating takes a half hour or an hour, set the start time accordingly at 8:30 or 8:00.

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**Author:** ![rodneydcunningham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@rodneydcunningham](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/rodneydcunningham)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2017, 7:44pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/preheating-programming-and-the-timer/6040/3 "2017-04-15T19:44:34Z")

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Thanks! I’ll try that.

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**Author:** ![rodneydcunningham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@rodneydcunningham](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/rodneydcunningham)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2017, 7:45pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/preheating-programming-and-the-timer/6040/4 "2017-04-15T19:45:39Z")

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Ok. I can report that whatever I tried didn’t work!