I kept burning my food or wait forever for the pan to heat up and I finally understand why. Each knob has a different direction for the Hi and Lo (also why isn’t it Low).
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wtf is this
“Which one should we put on the stove?”
“Yes.”
Please stop, he’s already dead….
mildly?
This is fucking pitchfork worthy
This is maybe the worst thing I have seen in my life.
One office I worked in had a toaster with a knob where “off” is almost all the way to the left.
Turning the knob to the right lets you control the toasting time, like any other knob-based timer.
But if you turn it left from the “off” position, that’s the “stay on” position.
So if you’d set the timer, and then wanted to cancel it, you can’t just turn it all the way left like on any other knob timer. If you do that, you’re telling it to stay on forever and eventually scorch the table and set off the fire alarm.
I’m really trying to understand what’s going on here in a way that makes sense, even if it’s a twisted kind of sense.
My best guess is that each of these burners are a different size and some have multiple rings and that by turning the knob left (Anti-clockwise), you’re going from smaller number of rings to larger number of rings - however, the rings start at their highest heat level. So looking at the bottom right dial as an example, the first “Notch” on the left is the smallest burner on the highest setting, then as you turn left more, it’ll dial down that burner until you get to the second ring on the burner - starting at full power for that second burner and continuing to lower power until you get to the 3rd ring, then it’s same again for the 4th ring.
Is that right? am I even close? I don’t understand why you’d go from smallest burner to highest burner anti-clockwise, but go from lowest burner-power to highest clockwise. That still doesn’t make sense to me.
That’s what I’m thinking, the different burners have different rings that are individually controlled
Yes they’re rings. Still doesn’t explain why not everything is in the same rotational direction.
What is this, a space age analog computer?
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A stove.
That’s pretty much exactly how it is.
OP’s stove is GCRE3060AF, or similar. The rightmost knob is inconsistent for reasons I cannot fathom, unless there is some obscure electrical reason. It is an electric stove, and the knobs with multiple ranges do indeed control burners that have multiple potential sizes. One of them has two selectable sizes, and other has three. On these I believe the rationale is that the high setting is the closest and most easily accessible because radiant electric ranges suck [citation not needed] and since they take forever and a day to heat up most users will just leap right to the full blast output setting immediately. I have no idea why the direction on the last knob is backwards from the others, clockwise versus counterclockwise, but it is.
If you’re morbidly curious, you can view the entire control panel from OP’s stove (or one similar) here.
It takes like 5 seconds to heat up.
Yep. It’s. GCRE3060AFF electric stove. (Other thing I hate is the fan noise when the oven is on, even when not on convection). Your idea of Hi closest to off position makes sense except of that triple knob, the 3rd ring Hi position isn’t at the top.
Have you Google the fan being on all the time? Ours (different model) doesn’t do that and they really shouldn’t.
It has to do with keeping the internal circuit boards cool so they don’t overheat due to the heat from the oven. We had a stove that did that too. I hated that thing. It would roar like a jet engine for about 30 minutes even after you turned the oven off.
US kitchen appliances are so weird and bad. I don’t get why your stuff doesn’t progress like over here in EU. We get the cleanest, modern, most silent kitchen setups ever.
Because you can make a larger profit by keeping the same design and parts on a crap product and charge you an inflated premium vs selling you a good product with decent R&D and testing. If it’s all crap you can’t tell you’re being fucked. Same thing with sliding guillotinée windows and health insurance.
Probably due to the knob itself and the configuration of the leads coming off of it.
I’m sure there’s a lazy engineer reason. But as someone who does engineering semi-professionally, come on! You don’t skimp out on UX just because it’s easier to make it this way! There is a reason why Murphy’s Law exists! And in this case it’s actually a fire hazard!
As a UX designer who became an appliance salesman, I challenge you to invent better UX for these features.
Well, for starter. Pick a direction for Lo -> Hi either clockwise or counterclockwise and stick to it.
The rotating knob is great. Haptic feedback. You can see it’s off at a clan r from afar. It’s not an encoder but a potentiometer so each position always has the same function hard coded. Just make them all turn in the same direction.
I would chose counter-clockwise as it’s easier to turn it that way for a right handed person (and that’s how the single burners are designed, all 3 of them (although the warm zone has a weird dead zone for some reason). Start on Lo until it gets to Hi then for multiple ring ones when you hit ring_1 hi and continue you get to ring_2 Lo and so on.
Also hers a pic
hahaha, amazing!
Lmao, sneaky reflection bird
Love it
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enhance… enhance!
Also seems mildly infuriating to reach across whatever you are cooking to handle the knobs.
I can’t decide if I prefer this (my stove is this way) or bumping the knobs with my hips.
My stove has the front knobs, it’s gas, and it’s been bumped on accidentally more than once and someone else walks into the kitchen and has the horrifying realization that the kitchen smells like gas. I think I prefer the electric stove I had as a kid.
That’s why modern gas stoves have safety valves. There’s a temp sensor near the burner which automatically shuts the gas off if the burner isn’t lit.
I nearly burned myself the other day doing this on my stove. Put the damn knobs down on the front!!!
That was a choice. We have a young kid who loooves touching buttons and turning knobs.
Well that’s fair and relatable. My kid keeps turning on the oven and turning off the dishwasher. Our stove has touch controls on the surface that he hasn’t figured out quite yet, but since it’s an induction stove it turns off pretty quickly if nothing is on it.
Our dishwasher has buttons on the i side. You need to open the door to control it. Then when you close it it looks clean with no buttons.
Looking at the one in the top left… imagine if that was for an amplifier. Like, you have to pass through maximum to reach off. That would be the worst to live near.
That last one is what kills me. Three different ranges of lo-hi, who does that?
Are these like different pictures of range knobs mashed together? I find it almost impossible to believe they put a different style control for each possible position.
Lo for the same reason it’s hi and not high.
They put Med so why not Low?
Got a ‘Sim’ in there too. Simmer?
Just, why?
On mine the left most knob controls the front and the one next to it does the back. On the right side they are reversed so Im constantly lighti g the wrong one.
That’s at least semi normal. Outside knobs are front, inside are back. Center for the oven.
As long as they’re labeled and spin the same way, I’m fine.
But what Lovecraftian villain came up with OP’s oven controls?
At first I thought this was a new Marshall amp.
My dryer has a “less dry” setting.
Who likes their laundry done rare?
Mine has similar settings but they’re named in ways which actually tells you why you’d want them that way: “Ready to Iron”, “Ready to Hang” and “Extra Dry”, things like that.
That actually makes sense for things you want to finish drying on a line so they don’t heat up too much and shrink.
This makes sense… But my washer defaults to this mode and I can’t figure out how to change it. By default all my clothes are almost dry.
Also for ironing
Also for if you enjoy the feeling of cold damp underwear.
I mostly agree with you, but I feel like damp underwear would be awesome if you were someplace that’s hot and arid.
Edit: accidently replied to the wrong person
Cold damp underwear sucks.
Cold damp socks on the other foot…
I’m trying to picture wearing a sock on one foot, and underwear on the other…
It’s the best way to wear both.
You don’t have to imagine, just try it out.
It’s so hard to grow fungi otherwise
never been a problem for me
You can just pee in your underwear.
Some fabrics wrinkle when you allow them to sit in the dryer totally dry. For those you want to take them out and hang them for the last bit so when they reach their driest state they’re hanging and not crumpled within the dryer.
source: am appliance salesman
So it actually adds water?
It just seemed nuts hooking up a water line to my dryer the first time I got one with steam cycles.
I never hooked mine up because I didn’t see much point in steam… But now I kinda want to.
You can mimic most of the steam features by throwing an ice cube in before running the dryer.
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So they can build a nice layer of mildew?
Tell me you didn’t read the manual without telling me you didn’t read the manual.
(I didn’t read mine too, btw)
My high ass would burn the house down using this.
Yes.
Ok I have nothing else than WTF
