Abstract: A cooktop includes a printed circuit board having an upper side and operating elements on the upper side, a glass-ceramic cooking area having a plurality of cooking locations, and display elements. Each of the display elements have an illuminator and a display-symbol mask. The illuminator is assigned to one of the operating elements, is disposed underneath the glass-ceramic cooking area, and is secured on and in contact with the upper side of the printed-circuit board. The display-symbol mask is secured on the illuminator and is disposed between the glass-ceramic cooking area and the illuminator such that, when the illuminator is in operation, a display symbol corresponding to the display-symbol mask is seen through the glass-ceramic cooking area when viewed from above the glass-ceramic cooking area. The glass-ceramic cooking area can have no printed display-symbol inscription provided thereon, and/or can have no decorative printed inscription provided in a region on the surface above the illuminator.

Abstract: A household appliance, such as an oven, with a front panel which extends substantially across the width of the front side of the household appliance. Control and/or display elements of the household appliance are assigned to the front panel. The front panel is an extruded metal section. In order to increase the stability of the front panel, the front panel extends, bent essentially uniformly about a vertical axis, over the width of the front panel in the shape of a segment of a cylindrical wall.