Cooking thread, anyone?

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Oven just died. Code says control board. Pulled it apart and it’s the board, plus a display that’s glued on. Board and display look to be 1/3 the cost of a new unit. Oven is 15 years old. It may be time to upgrade.
We just got a new induction range with touch controls on thr top. Avoid. Any drips from a lid and everything turns off. Requiring 3 presses to turn on a single burner.
 
We got an induction range plus normal resistive oven. I sought a range with big old knobs to rotate. Had seen fancy touch controls etc.nat family and was not impressed with how they work. Big (classic) rotating knobs are very intuitive.
And about 9 months in all still works great.

Oven also stops the fan when you open the door, which is nice.
 
Induction is interesting, but we have gas. There used to be an electric there, but I pulled the wire down into the basement and it now runs a sub panel. It’s a shame to leave such a long, expensive, low gauge wire unused!

The wife came by last night all sad because she wanted to steam buns. She was very happy to learn that the burners on top still worked with the power off. Steaming is possible! When I went to bed last night she was running the dough hook kneading the dough in the kitchen aid. I wonder if there’ll be any left at breakfast, lol.
 
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