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I'm sure you are sarcastic here, because I have 4 (four) Bosch kitchen devices which might look similar (a rotating button with little displays left and right) but function WILDLY different - emphasis mine. On one the rotating button can be pushed, the displays are touch sensitive except on one, on one two increment by the touch displays not by rotating, on one the settings are reached by long pressing the info area, menus are a jungle different every time and can be reached by touch controls OR rotating the button... No, Bosch has zero coherence (just in design ok). And don't start me on the sound signals like the stove complaining it got a drop of water on its sensitive touch buttons placed right next to the pot. I'm sorry but I'm 110% behind the OC, no Bosch decision maker EVER used those appliances.

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>I'm sure you are sarcastic here, because ...

Actually I was mostly surprised by the parent comment, I thought that even in the subset of just dishwashers they had at least three different sets of controls/menus/settings.

>I'm sorry but I'm 110% behind the OC, no Bosch decision maker EVER used those appliances.

Well, I would extend that to most other manufacturers, I believe each one needs to show "something new" at the annual fair, and since - after all - there is not much to invent anymore in a dishwasher or a microwave, they add (senseless) features in the UI that only - say - 1% of users will ever use, inconveniencing the 99% of them.

>And don't start me on the sound signals like the stove complaining it got a drop of water on its sensitive touch buttons placed right next to the pot.

I believe this is actually a safety feature: When a pot boils over and spreads water on the touch panel, both the pot and the touch panel may be too hot to touch, leaving no way to turn off the stove. So, to be on the safe side, the stove turns off and beeps.

Good point! For me the failure was placing the buttons on the plate itself.

Well, we have two Bosch machines (a dishwasher and a washing machine) from the same year and series and the controls are very similar.

Same year and series, makes sense.

But I would like a confirmation that a different series/different year still are similar, which is was I doubt.

My crazy ones are same series and same year, but they are an oven, a steamer, a warming drawer and a microwave. Looks like the *washer teams work better together than the kitchen appliances.

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