The number of times I've got gone back to check something and it was ruined sitting 200deg lower than it should have been is more than I can count.
The number of times I've got gone back to check something and it was ruined sitting 200deg lower than it should have been is more than I can count.
There are some very real benefits to touch interfaces in cooking (primarily ease of cleaning a solid flat surface, and manufacturers don’t need to worry about moisture ingress), but it’s pretty hard to make one that actually consistently works in a way that won’t accidentally burn your house down when your cat walks across the cooktop in the middle of the night. I’m personally going to stick to knobs and buttons in the meantime.
Regardless of how the controls work, you can make a cooktop that, functionally, will not set your cat on fire: use an induction stove. Unless your cat ends up in a pan or your cat is ferromagnetic, the stove won’t heat it :)
Oh, and a switch for the light.