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).
What the actual fuck?
At least “Off” is consistent. That could have been a total train wreck.
I bought a portable electric space heater a few years ago that had an alarming tendency to rewire itself - like, “Off” would become “Low”, “High” would become “Fan” etc. Finally took it apart and realized that the dial was just a contact that rolled across a bit of printed solder and occasionally the solder would melt (no way they could have expected that to happen in a fucking heater) and flow into a new pattern. I have absolutely no idea why thousands of people haven’t burned themselves to death with these things.
Are the 300 deaths and 21800 fires not enough? People absolutely do burn themselves to death with space heaters. Source: https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2002/CPSC-Offers-Tips-to-Prevent-Home-Fires-Caused-by-Space-Heaters-Devices-Associated-with-21800-Fires-and-300-Deaths-Annually
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.
This looks like an AI-generated fever dream nightmare.
I really hope you´re right!
what in the actual fuck
Has to do with the fact that several burners have multiple sizes that can be used. My stove is the same way, and there’s really not a much better way to do it imo, short of a touch screen, which I don’t want on a stove.
A dial with a mode select switch directly above it. That us the much better way.
If you want the inner burner at power level 6, you set the mode switch to inner and the dial to 6. Then every dial can work the exact same way, but you still have multi-sized burners.
I like the other commenter’s idea, but I’d be happy with just consistent directions. Turn it a little bit counterclockwise and it’s the minimum low, turn it a bit clockwise and it’s max high.
I have an LG one with a single triple burner that doesn’t match any of the others. The oven also sucks, I need to set it 25 degrees higher on convection (with normal cook time) for things to cook properly.
Oh and then there’s the bottom drawer which is a second oven but it takes forever to preheat. I’ve used it twice and then stopped bothering.
I think I’ll replace that piece of shit next time a big purchase is up.
The burner has two zones. A small one in the middle, and a wider ring around. If you turn to the left, you only turn the middle part on from High to low, and if you turn right, you turn both on from low to high.
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Just get a new stove. Ending is better than mending.
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Is it under warranty?
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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?
Mine has burners like this too and I hate it. Very confusing!
Using “Low” would be more infuriating than “Lo”.
The full words are “High” (not “Hi”) and “Low”, so to save space they use the first two letters “Hi” and “Lo”. If they use “Hi” and “Low” it would be inconsistent, e.g. more infuriating.
I thought it was just saying hellow.
You have double burners. Some of your knobs have two HI and two LO positions, one for one burner and one for both burners.
On top of the stove this looks like two concentric heating elements. You can turn on one or both. Turning on both is sometimes called a “fast boil” burner.
The best solution the industry has come up with is to put two control surfaces into one knob, so instead of the control surface being a full circle it’s a half circle.
There’s no way to make all the knobs match in appearance unless all the burners have optional double burner operation.
source: am appliance salesman.
My folks had a stove with two (electric) heat elements in the same way I assume OP has, to use both, you had to go 360° all the way to a full circle where it “clicked”, then go back to where you wanted it at. Much easier and sensible IMO than whatever the hell this headache is.
Yes they’re double burners but the Lo -> Hi rotation is different for each position which is infuriating, but only mildly.
I see what you mean.
What they should do is make the rule: “clockwise is hotter”, and make all the LO…HI arcs increase in the clockwise direction.
Then no matter which burner you’re adjusting, you know it’s a clockwise movement.
They should also have a little LED light bar that changes length to show how high that burner’s setting. As you turn clockwise, it lengthens toward “full on”.
The LED light bar should light up whenever a knob is touched.
Need high temp LEDs too I guess.
You’ll love it more when the numbers get washed off. Here’s mine.
Lol this is the funniest thing I’ve read today :)
You can get an engraver for like $12 of Amazon, with a little practice you can probably ingrave new numbers and paint fill them.
Technically they can use their picture as reference and maybe order a sticker with the settings printed.
This is criminal
Oh God, playing Russian Roulette with your food using that knob.
Honestly, I just never use that burner!
How in the hell did this make it to market?
They had different teams working on each knob to speed up the design process.
Mass consumerism and companies not caring.
Their target audiences are home flippers who just need the cheapest stainless steel appliances that look fine at a glance, and cheap landlords that don’t understand that they’re choosing themselves more money in the long run.
I don’t get how this would be cheaper to manufacture. They’d need to make five different switches.
By knobs, you mean rotary switches, I assume. I think the thing is they cheaped out by not designing the switches they needed. Instead they just sourced whatever rotary switches they could find that had the number of outputs they needed for these weird, segmented burners, regardless of their potentiometer directions.
Haha yeah. I have the same one from Samsung.
Samsung makes shit home appliances.
Lol, Samsung used to be a good brand!
Absolutely. Their washing machines are notoriously bad.
Everything Samsung is bad (except some phones). TV are cripples with ads, fridges, there’s a whole sub about how bad they are… and so on.
Just wait until they start charging subscription fees for appliance features. Believe me, that’s coming.
OMG I just had a vision of a future where cooking recipes had DRM. “Chicken detected. In order to cook your chicken to the right temperature, you need a delicious home food subscription. Tap on the top left burner to subscribe” also the burner is on.
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MILDLY infuriating!?
Depends on which direction you turn the knob. If can be Mild ore Extremely…
That should be illegal, throw it out
Please stop, he’s already dead….
What witchcraft is this on earth!? Crime against humanity?
Thanks Frigidaire
There’s your problem. Their appliances are junk. I’ve got a Frigidaire fridge and it has a bunch of known issues. The refrigerant line is too close to the back of the fridge, causing the back panel to rust. The line for the ice maker also freezes a lot. The bottom of the fridge is very cold to the point where stuff freezes (the water line runs near here).
All know issues for the model I’ve got. Outside of warranty, so all Frigidaire could offer was a 10% off coupon for a new fridge… As if I’d buy a Frigidaire again.
Frigidaire literally invented the modern fridge. You’d think they’d know how to build a good one by now.
