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by silversconfused 2609 days ago
Clearly you have not met my stove! It literally polls the buttons once per second. It's a total crapshoot if you need a short press or a long press to register input. Voice control on this unit would not remove anything you'd miss.

I grew up with a stove that had an analog clock and a mechanical timer. Now THAT was a nice stove interface...
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NikolaNovak 2609 days ago
My sympathies - that's because, unfortunately, you have a stove where somebody took UI that works and tried to "modernize it". It sounds like it has touch buttons.

We have a brand new, nice stove that has knobs. It works GREAT :).

My next purchase will be a microwave oven that doesn't have million useless buttons but instead two dials/knobs - how much power, and how long. And I don't expect to ever use the how much power dial either :P

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silversconfused 2608 days ago
They are tact switches, not capacitive. It's just a cheap GE.
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