vocabularies

How a heat-based cooking appliance lets the user regulate its cooking heat or food doneness: a fixed non-adjustable element (the heat runs at one rate and only time varies — a basic waffle iron, a popcorn popper); a browning / doneness level (a graded darkness dial, as on a pop-up toaster, that trades time against darkness rather than naming a temperature); a small set of preset heat levels (low / high / warm, as on a slow cooker); an adjustable thermostat the user sets in degrees (a deep fryer, a toaster oven); an automatic self-regulating cook that senses completion and switches itself (a rice cooker reaching dry-rice temperature); or a selected cooking program (a sequence the appliance runs, as on a bread maker or multicooker). A token category recurring across toasters, ovens, fryers and pot cookers (L11); growing (L13). Distinct from power_rating (the element's input wattage, not how heat is regulated) and from the kettle's temperature_control (a target WATER temperature for a beverage, which cannot express a toaster's browning dial).

Answers the question: heat setting.