If your food is burning, you can always lift the pan off the stove. It's pretty rare that I'm cooking something that is 10 seconds away from being burnt anyway.

If your food is burning, you can always lift the pan off the stove. It's pretty rare that I'm cooking something that is 10 seconds away from being burnt anyway. Saying that, I suspect there's a whole load of manufacturers who put different levels of thought into their capacitive controls. I only gave my example because I'm really happy with it - and so in my opinion it's not a universal problem with touch controls on stoves. Every time I stay in an AirBnB I'm surprised by just how bad a lot of cooking appliances are though - really unintuitive timers, poor quality knobs, very primitive technology (precisely controlling temperature really isn't that hard!)