Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
They are adding a lot of electronics to appliances that really don’t need them. When I see one of those fancy refrigerator or stove the only thing I can think of is just how expensive they would be to repair.
My thoughts were the same when shopping for a decent stove. Too many electronic bells and whistles today that are unnecessary and provide extra failure points. All my wife and I want from a stove is piezo-ignited gas burners on top and an electric oven on the bottom that cooks evenly and quickly.
I live in Italy, so I settled on a semi-pro, five burner DeLonghi with electric oven. The oven timer is a mechanical job with a bell when time's up. Very little to break on the stove and it's been reliable for ten years of hard use so far.
Had a thermocouple on one of the burners go bad recently. Changed all of them out for ~$50 and 1 1/2 hours of my time. Piece of cake.
A great stove is roomy, simple, reliable and easy to repair. My wife loves the DeLonghi - says it cooks better than any oven she's ever had.
When it comes to appliances, simple is good.
When I see one of those fancy refrigerator or stove the only thing I can think of is just how expensive they would be to repair.
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I’ve maintained the same criticism re vehicles ever since the introduction of electronically controlled door windows!