A cooking appliance and method for heating an item positioned on the appliance and used in food preparation or food serving or cooking. A controller includes a control unit for controlling the reading, writing and erasure of data to and from the flash memory unit, and a degradation level table for recording a degradation level of the memory cells in physical block units. With this cable tie, a strap accepting channel is provided in the locking head that is substantially parallel to a strap attachment axis. The handle has a portion extending into a shallow pocket in both the shank and the end cap. In accordance with one embodiment, this is performed by determining whether the next router and the host identified by the source address of the packet are on the same network. A patient interface portion is coupled to the circuit portion.