Two come immediately to my mind. One is a baked potato ... I'd've loved to have been able to have the oven turn on at 16:30 so that the potato was properly bak

Two come immediately to my mind. One is a baked potato ... I'd've loved to have been able to have the oven turn on at 16:30 so that the potato was properly baked when I got in at 18:00. I used to do that with the oven I had when I was a teen, but not when I was early in my working career. The other is the family casserole that we used to have on a Friday night. My parents would prepare it in the morning and program the oven to come on at a low temperature at 15:00. Then when we got home it would be done perfectly. There are others, those are just the two of which I have direct personal experience.