kingdragonfly: When I purchased my home it had a very fancy induction stovetop and a built-in oven.

I needed to consult both user manuals, just to figure out how to turn either on.

The induction stovetop is mostly featureless glass panel, with flaky and unobvious touch controls. It only communicate via a few scattered single LED's or 1 character codes, and beeping. When powered on, it has a padlock function enabled by default, and is unresponsive till you press the padlock "button" (usually takes two or three attempts) and get a beep.

One the other hand, the oven has hidden controls, and an LED text display. Every function requires an "press 'OK' after you insert the food" even when there's no need (no timer, no preheat). If you insert food, and don't hit OK. it'll just stay off, not heating.

And in some beautiful planned obsolesce, the tiny but critical "ok" chrome painted plastic button broke at almost exactly 5 years plus 1 day, and require you to pull out the oven to get to the back, and a $600 replacement motherboard that's no longer available. (I looked worldwide)

Anyone have a good used 1950's oven and range top?

I agree one only needs two steps to cook, temperature and mode ie bake, grill etc. Even a timer is not necessary these days with phones and Google home assistant to sort this by voice. That’s why I am happy to pay an electrician the price of a new stove to get my old oven totally refurbished than buy a new oven that will make all my trays redundant because todays ovens are so small inside. Mine has a clock a timer and variable modes that take a couple turns of the knob. It has a door that swings up rather than out so I can easily remove large trays and a built in temperature probe and rotisserie. F&P really did a great design and it’s 45 years old. Hoping my electrician will keep his word and do the job when he gets back from holidays.