I bought a new range last month and I’m still trying to get used to the utterly idiotic design features of it. Every single stove I have owned has been very straightforward to operate. But this one still does things that bug the hell out of me.
When I am cooking something and the instruction say 'cook at 450 degress" on every stove I have ever owned I simply dial or set 450 and presto…the over starts and begins to preheat. Not this one. I have to select the temperature and THEN…I have to press start. If I don’t press start, after a minute or so it just goes back to being off. I set a temperature so obviously I intended to cook something and every stove I had was smart enough to realize that if I said 450, then I was planning on cooking. But I have to do the appliance equivalent of the Microsoft “are you sure you want do do this” It’s the same way with the timer. If it says cook for 20 minutes and I set it to 20 minutes, I HAVE to push start or it will not start and will just reset itself. Why on earth does a stove need me to confirm what I selected for time or temperature?
Both my built in double ovens over the last 20 years have been like that. You tap the button for the top or bottom oven, it defaults to 350 degrees, if that’s the temp you want press start. If you want a different temperature you enter it and press start. Not that complicated.
It sure isn’t, but for the past 40+ years I simply picked a temperature and teh stove somehow automatically knew that by my action of turning it on, I was intending to use the over, so when I dialed in my temperature, it automatially started pre heating. And that old oven was smart enought that, when I dialed up 20 minutes, ran thru it’s calculations and algorithms and decided that yes, 20 minutes must be how long it needs to cook and it would miraculously start counting down. Super duper uncomplicated.
Nope it’s just a basic stove. The old stove was at least 15 years old, but no stove I’ve ever owned required me to push “start”. I think it’s a rather dumb process to require that. Yes, it’s not that complicated but for 45+ years, every stove I used was smart enough to know that when I set a temperature, I must have the intention of cooking and they would start.
Likes Bears stove, the girlfriends is a double stove with controls on top. You set the temp and there are two start and cancel buttons, one for each stove. Without that setup, youd need two sets of controls.
They’re for different cooking temps. My cooktop has 2 medium (regular size) burners, a simmer burner and a high out for big pots and boiling quicker. They’re used for better temperature control.
Our oven is 25 years old and requires one to push start after setting the temp or to set the temp. Our cooktop is gas, so one turns the dial and it fires up…
Mine is the same.
It took me two times of it not preheating to remember to hit start all the tiem.
The other small annoying thing about mine is it has two different buttons, one for regular and one for air fry and I mess them up sometimes
Our year or 2 old washer has a annoying way to start it. After you put the clothes and detergent in, set the cycle, temp, load size you want instead of pushing start you push one button, then hold a different button for a few seconds. It then locks the lid until the load is done. Like you said, you get used to it after a few times.
