This range looks nice, and the cooktop is usually easy to clean.
It works, but has many annoying design flaws:
Cooktop:
- Burner heat settings are spaced too coarsely near the low end.
For example, 3 is often too hot, while 2 is not hot enough.
It seems like the settings 1-9 follow a linear scale,
while something closer to a cubic curve would probably work better.
(Small steps at the low end, progressing to large steps at the high end.)
- Burner active area is significantly smaller than circles on cooktop surface.
This means pans cook unevenly: hot near center, cool around perimeter.
- Surface can be blemished by common cleaning products like Bar Keepers Friend.
Oven:
- Oven temperature is somewhat uneven:
It's hotter near the outer edges.
Also, the temperature difference between one rack and the rack immediately
below is noticeably greater than it was in my gas oven.
- Racks tend to bind at the sides, making sliding them difficult.
- Oven light remains on after turning off the appliance.
- Oven light cannot be turned off without first turning on the appliance
with a long press. Yet another simple task made tedious and annoying.
- Door handle feels flimsy, like it might be cheap plastic.
- Door handle is not a bar, so cannot be used to hold a kitchen towel.
Timers:
- The timers require turning on either the cooktop or oven controls,
requiring tedious long presses and taps, before they can be used.
- The timers stop working when no longer cooking something.
This means they cannot be used to time a rest period after cooking,
or for timing any other common kitchen task.
- The righthand and lefthand timers have completely different user interfaces,
requiring different steps to operate, as though the designer wanted them
to be as confusing as possible.
- Both timers require too many presses/taps to set or adjust a duration.
- Righthand timer requires navigating tedious menus and submenus to access.
Control Panel:
- The control panel menu is normally navigated by swiping right,
but doing this while cooking raises the heat instead,
which can easily cause boil over.
- The 0-9 bar has too few steps to reach the wanted value in one swipe,
so multiple swipes are often necessary.
Just setting a timer to more than 20 minutes requires more than a few swipes.
This is a tedious waste of time.
- The 0-9 bar often incorrectly registers the tapped number,
registering a number next to it instead.
At best, this requires (tedious and time-wasting) extra taps to correct it.
At worst, the error isn't noticed, leading to burned or undercooked food.
- The left/right arrows beside the 0-9 bar can be held to change values,
but it increments/decrements very slowly, which is a tedious waste of time.
- The left/right arrows beside the 0-9 bar ignore rapid taps,
so the user must press, wait, press, wait, etc.
Another tedious waste of time.
- When first turned on, the oven controls display "Bake 400°",
tricking the user into thinking that the temperature can be adjusted.
In fact, attempting to change that temperature (with a swipe or arrow tap)
navigates away from bake mode.
The user then has to fiddle with more swipes/taps to return to bake mode.
It should just say "Bake", perhaps followed by "press OK to set temp".
- The control panel's touchpad "buttons" are not lit.
This makes them sometimes difficult to read or distinguish from each other,
especially when blinded by the bright screen backlight just above them.
- The screen backlight remains lit long after turning off the appliance.
- Control panel input beeps cannot be muted without also
muting the timer alarm (or presumably other alerts).
So if you want to know when things are done cooking,
you must also endure noisy beep-beep-beeping every time you tap a control
(which is annoyingly often in order to operate this appliance).
Misc:
- The cooling fan sometimes makes a high-pitched fluttering/rattling noise.
- The optional backguard sometimes rattles annoyingly when
(presumably) the cooling fan causes vibration in the appliance.