[Electronics-Talk] Accessible stoves / ovens?

[Steve Jacobson]

Taylor,

When we first got a flat topped stove, I was a little uneasy about it even though I knew of other blind people who had used them.  Now that we've used one for perhaps fifteen years, it just has not been a problem.  When centering a pan on the burner, it turns out to be able to easily feel if it is not centered by moving one's hand around in a circle safely above the pan.  Where the burner is not covered, you can easily feel more heat coming out.  If you forget which knob turns on which burner, turning a burner on with nothing on it for even five seconds will let you feel the heat by having your hand a few inches over the burner.  It is helpful to remember the sizes of the burners so you have a pan on the right size.  A large pan on a small burner won't work real well.

In our case, after a while from use, the edges of the burners are a little rougher than the rest of the top most likely from heat.  This gives one a better picture of where the burners are, although I could feel where each burner was if I touched carefully when the stove was new, with burners off, of course.the right

Mostly, stuff that sticks from cooking cleans off pretty easily and is pretty obvious when you touch it.  Most spills will yield to a fingernail while any roughness associated with the stove top will not.  Often you get some special cleaner to clean off really tough spills, but soap and water with a safe scrubbing spunge will do the job.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson


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I wonder about this too. The stove has knobs and we put bump dots on the oven buttons, but the top of the stove is a flat top. I just wonder how, overtime, how are you supposed to figure out the difference between stuck on grease versus the difference between the edge of one burner versus another.
Taylor Durrett
Assistive Technology Trainer for the Blind and Visually Impaired JAWS Certified, October 2020
(940) 230-6051

> On Jun 7, 2024, at 5:11 PM, Andrews, David B (DEED) via Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Well, it depends on what you mean by accessible.  A few stoves have knobs for burners, but virtually all ovens nowadays have a flat panel where you must press what you want. However most behave pretty well, so they can be labeled with Braille or tactile markings.
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> My oven, for example:  I press bake, then I have to press plus or minus once, and it is at 350 degrees.  Plus and minus each add or subtract 5 degrees, so I can get what I want. You can't use the timer. There are choices for broil, and off also.
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> The best thing is to go an appliance store, or a place like Best Buy, or Home Depot, or Loews, and make a salesperson show you what they have. You may pay a little more, but you have a better idea of what you are getting.
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> Dave
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