Category: Daily Living
I've been wracking my brain on this for the past little while, since it's pretty much time for a new oven in this house.
From looking at what they've got in stores... These days, you can still get both raised elements or a flat-top stove, and it's still possible to find stoves with dial controls for the elements... but all oven controls seem to be managed by a computerized touchscreen, no matter which type you get. The pressable areas are indistinguishable, from the rest of the top part of the stove, and they do not click or give an audible sound to ensure that you've pressed it or not, so I'm guessing that even if tactile markers were added, there's no for sure way of knowing where you are in the menus or what you're doing in said menus, settings and options.
So what am I, and anyone else in the market for a new oven, going to do? Has anyone worked with a touchscreen oven successfully?
I'm quite adamant about not giving up cooking food in an oven, but at the same time, I'm stumped on the whole touchscreen business.
Would it be reasonable to use tactile markers and just memorize which areas to press, when, and how many times, and just hope you didn't make a mistake along the way?
At my school I went to we had an oven with a tutch screen but was kind of easy because there was a button for start and two for raising the temperature incriments by five so all you had to do was count from 350, 355, and so on. Of course we put dots on those. I haven't figured out the one here yet for a comparison but hopefully i will learn it..
call the NFB national center. they have an accessible appliances showcase and can suggest more accessible models and give you other tips
I have a touchscreen oven, which works like Jeannie819 described. It beeps when the buttons are pressed, too.
We have a touchscreen on our stove/oven in the kitchen. I only labeled the number pad and the bake and cancel buttons on there, seeing as I only do baking. still a little nervous when I open the door
i got a dial based oven about a year ago, and brailled up markers, it's still ggoing strong.
I also do well with touch screen ovens. the ones I've encountered have beeped when you press a button, and counting is easily done.
May you always find shade and water,
Amber
We just got one a few months ago. I haven't played with it much, and there are several styles within this model. The Whirlpools have texture on some of the buttons, and they start out at 350 degrees. I need to get serious about this oven!
Jamesk was right about the NFB. Also, a few months ago, Access World also did a piece on accessible appliances. Go to www.afb.org, and click on the link for Access World. Good luck!
Lou
Hmmm! As four our oven at home, I wouldn't reccomend you get one like our double cooker unless you want to end up bankrupt, but our cooker has a double oven, grill, plate warmer (which mum only uses to stash the baking trays she doesn't have room for with the rest of the saucepans) and nine little gold tap-like things with little arms. You just have to aim the little arms/pointers on the knobs at the temperatures you want them. For example, on both the main ovens, we have stuck a Braille number 2 and a brail FR on the knob that controls the front righthand ring as we'd decided that was the easiest ring for me to reach and closer to the worktop where we prepare food. I could ask mum where she got it, and you could visit the US equivalent store where she bought the cooker. That was almost 4 years ago though. I don't know if the store concerned would still be selling this cooker or a similar and much cheaper model.
Jen.
I've never heard of a touch screen oven before. I just thought that cookers had ials on the front where you turn them to the bump-on or braille number that you stick on for the different temperatures or rings. I have only used an oven with dials and a hob with raised rings, but I do know that you can get ovens with completely flat surfaces.