Patent ID: 7176418

Claim:
A cooking stove comprising: a touch switch provided on a top plate covering a top surface of a cooking stove main body accommodating heating means, to allow a user to give an instruction on activation of the heating means, the touch switch sensing an object that contacts or approaches the top surface of the top plate; and heating control means for determining whether the touch switch is in a sensing state or a non-sensing state to perform a predetermined operation pre-assigned to the touch switch, on the heating means in accordance with a result of the determination, wherein the cooking stove comprises: state display means for displaying a state of the heating means; and display control means for, when the touch switch shifts from the non-sensing state to the sensing state, changing display contents of the state display means to display corresponding to a state of the heating means after the predetermined operation has been performed, and the heating control means performs the predetermined operation on the heating means when the touch switches shifts from the non-sensing state to the sensing state and then returns to the non-sensing state.