I recently purchased a new stove.  It’s a lovely unit with the black glass top and the control panel looks like it could launch a missile strike.  At the risk of sounding like a whining old guy who won't embrace technology, I have to ask, do we really need all of this stuff? 

Last night I just wanted to cook some Chicken Cordon Bleu cutlets.  They're pretty simple, put in oven at 400, take out after 25 minutes. With my old stove it was turn oven on, set at 400 and put in oven. Well, not with the new contraption.  It took me 20 minutes to figure out how to turn on the new oven!  There's an upper oven and a lower oven; there’s convection and non convection. When you punch in the time, it doesn't show, but it is on (I think).  And then there’s the issue of a couple of small letters that lit up that I'm still not sure what they’re supposed to be telling me. AHHHHHH!!!!!! It drove me crazy.

I know what you're thinking- read the manual you bonehead.  I'm in the process but it, like the stove, seems overly complicated and is 60 pages long.  I know that eventually I'll get it but like the TV that now requires 4 remotes and cell phones that can do everything but massage your feet, I ask you, have we reached the tech tipping point?  Do we have all this stuff just because we can?  I think we've gone overboard people....

Oh yeah, the new stove-  it actually has a separate icon for chicken fingers.....CHICKEN FINGERS!!!!!!!