The present invention provides a cooking stove including a touch switch that can prohibit a child from instructing the heating means to be actuated, while permitting a child to instruct the heating means to be stopped. The cooking stove comprises an electrical capacitance operation switch 10 which switches the cooking stove between an operation state in which an ignition instruction is enabled and a standby state in which the ignition instruction is disabled; the operation switch 10 is used to instruct the cooking stove to be extinguished. When the cooking stove is inactive, a switch circuit 63 selects a resistance element 61 offering a higher resistance to set the cooking stove in a “lower sensitivity set state” in which the operation switch 10 has a sensitivity sl. This prohibits the cooking stove from being switched to the operation state when a child touches a touch area 10a in the standby state. On the other hand, when the cooking stove is active, the switch circuit 63 selects a resistance element 62 offering a lower resistance to set the cooking stove in a “higher sensitivity set state” in which the operation switch 10 has a sensitivity sh (>sl). This permits a process of extinguishing a burner to be executed when a child touches the touch area 10a.