[JoelBennett]

As someone who currently has a Samsung stove, I can wholeheartedly say I hate the thing. The interface is one of the worst I've seen - touch "buttons" on a stove. It does't work half the time if your hands are the slightest bit wet - which they often are after washing hands. It's incredibly frustrating, and has completely thrown me off about buying any sort of Samsung appliance.

Samsung has such potential, but it's untested things make me wonder about their long-term value.

[acchow]

> touch "buttons" on a stove

What exactly is the process in an organization that leads to products like this?

[emp_zealoth]

Touch buttons on the stove (assuming they are like the ones we have at home) mean the stove is just one flat glass pane that is impossible to make dirty.

Yes, the buttons are kinda retarded and unresponsive, but if you fry something and have droplets of burned oil fly everywhere you just take a cloth with a little detergent and it just wipes off.

No more crusty disgusting matter growing on nooks and crannies of knobs that you have to operate on to get off the damn thing

[thinkmassive]

Obviously it works great, and the next logical step is voice control /s

[yen223]

Non-contact interfaces would be a godsend in the kitchen.

[roseburg]

Touch buttons = circuit board. Horrible idea. What could go wrong so close to excessive heat? Ovens used to last decades, and they still last longer than most other appliances, but now it's the circuit board in the control panel that goes out the most.

[avar]

Touch button stoves are much easier to clean.

[emodendroket]

Who knows; it seems like everyone wants to put them in car radios too, which still strikes me as unbelievable.

[massysett]

My car radio is a giant touch screen. Horrible idea. I would much rather have buttons. I understand they want the buttons to change depending on context, but even then it would be better to have buttons surrounding a screen with the screen changing to show what the buttons do.

IBM used to make cash registers with little LCD panels on the physical buttons. Of course these have probably been replaced with touch screens.

[mmariani]

Going on a tangent, if you like to cook you should get a traditional gas burning stove. No fancy UI beats the simplicity pushing and turning knobs. Not to mention the heating control precision. I think that's much more important than fancy knives and other expensive tools of the trade.

[erpellan]

You haven't seen precision until you've tried an induction stove. Instant heat, almost no residual temperature (they heat the metal of the pan directly rather than firing radiation / hot air at them) and super easy to clean.

[roel_v]

Nope, induction is better on all fronts (control, ease of cleaning, safety). And if you buy a good brand (I currently have Miele, my previous Siemens was great too), touch controls work perfectly.

[mmariani]

I have used a lot of induction stoves and I didn't like it very much. I just called a chef friend of mine and he agrees with me as long as you get a decent stove with big burners. Anyway, you should use whatever makes you comfortable at the kitchen. The important thing is to keep cooking and having a good time doing it.