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Electric stoves
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2021–2026), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Electric stoves, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Touch controls are hard to use while multitasking with several pots or greasy hands2026-08-09
- Glass-top electric cooktops are infuriating and barely usable for cooking2024-05-19
- Burners are slow to heat and can't cool quickly, so people worry about touching them2022-02-09
- Electric cooktops are too slow to heat up and respond to changes2021-07-19