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Dacor gets aggressive by putting a tablet on an oven

The $8,999 Dacor DYRP36D is a dual-fuel range that includes a fully functional Android tablet.

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Dacor DYRP36D

This 36-inch-wide stainless-steel range features a gas cooktop with six burners and an electric oven.

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Dacor DYRP36D

The tablet mainly functions as the control panel for the oven.

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Dacor DYRP36D

The tablet, located in the middle of the burner knobs, tilts upward 50 degrees for better viewing.

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Dacor DYRP36D

The oven has a 5.2-cubic-foot capacity.

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Dacor DYRP36D

There are 12 different oven modes you can select on the touchscreen.

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Dacor DYRP36D

The tablet features a Guided Cooking tool that recommends cook settings based on what you're cooking.

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Dacor DYRP36D

The tablet runs on Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), an operating system that hasn't received updates since 2015.

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Dacor DYRP36D

You can download and use apps like YouTube on the tablet.

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Dacor DYRP36D

As is normal with a gas burner, the temperature of the tomato soup immediately dropped when I turned the burner level from medium to low once the soup reached 165 degrees Fahrenheit. The Dacor DYRP36D's soup temperature dropped lower than on other burners, then hovered around 150 degrees F.

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Dacor DYRP36D

The oven roasts chicken well.

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Dacor DYRP36D

The pictures on the left show two racks of biscuits I baked using the convection bake mode. The biscuits baked on the lower rack (bottom left picture) were browner than the ones that baked on a higher rack (top left picture). The pictures on the right are the color representations of the biscuits' browning.

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I baked these biscuits in traditional baking mode. The results were even, though the biscuits in the front on the right were a bit paler than the others.

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