Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Induction cooktops
Raised as a usability problem by 73 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 38 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Touch controls fail when liquid is spilled nearbyUnreviewed
20112026- Touch controls fail with grease or wet hands and can falsely activate2026-03-25
- Buttons sit too close to heat, hurt to press, and fail when wet2025-11-06
- Touch buttons have a slight delay and trigger accidentally from a drop of water2024-05-04
Hard to quickly adjust heat with hands fullUnreviewed
20112026- Two touches needed to adjust each flame's power; touch often doesn't register2024-11-05
- Hard to quickly adjust heat with hands full on touch controls2024-11-04
- Changing heat level takes seven separate touches, each beeping, and controls respond slowly2024-11-03
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 50 complaints
- Touch-sensitive controls are infuriating to use on induction stoves2026-08-09
- Touch controls fail with grease or wet hands and can falsely activate2026-03-25
- Wiping the stovetop accidentally activates touch controls, changing heat settings2026-01-06
- Buttons sit too close to heat, hurt to press, and fail when wet2025-11-06
- Entirely touch-based controls are confusing and frustrating to operate2025-11-06
- Must press precisely with right object size, holds needed, and liquids block the off button2025-06-18
- Two touches needed to adjust each flame's power; touch often doesn't register2024-11-05
- Hard to quickly adjust heat with hands full on touch controls2024-11-04
- Touch buttons beep constantly and falsely register pots or tongs2024-11-03
- Changing heat level takes seven separate touches, each beeping, and controls respond slowly2024-11-03
- Touch buttons have a slight delay and trigger accidentally from a drop of water2024-05-04
- Touch controls are hard for elderly users and hard to use reliably2024-03-18
- Touch display goes haywire when water gets on it2024-01-08
- Touch displays on induction cooktops are annoying to use and laggy, unresponsive2024-01-08
- Touchscreen controls are hard to use and frustrating compared to physical knobs2023-12-18
- Touch controls stop responding or beep constantly when wet, so the stove can't be turned off2023-12-18
- Commonly fails to operate the touch-interface stove correctly on first tries2023-10-14
- Touch-based induction stove controls are hard to use and have glaring faults2023-10-14
- Touch controls fail when wet, and pan-removal auto-shutoff interrupts cooking2023-04-30
- Touch buttons ding when spilled on or stepped on, even when nothing is selected2023-04-27
- Touch controls are unusable, making induction stoves hard to operate2023-01-11
- Heats unevenly, burning one side while the other barely cooks; hard to get precise heat2023-01-11
- Buttons often fail to respond, and shared controls need selecting the burner first2022-12-05
- Touch controls are stupid and unreliable, hard to operate2022-11-03
- Must boot it up every time before using it2022-11-02
- Touch controls go off when liquids or pans brush against them2022-11-02
- Digital control makes heat hard to adjust precisely; power feels locked behind kid gloves2022-10-29
- Must select each burner then use shared +/- button; wet fingers fail and time out2022-05-30
- Discrete power levels force constant adjusting to keep food simmering2022-05-25
- Touch buttons hard to find; beeps angrily whenever the pan is lifted2022-03-29
- Hard to cook on; heat response feels unlike gas flame control2022-03-13
- Touch-sensitive controls are frustrating to use on induction stoves2022-03-13
- Buttons can't be operated with wet or greasy hands, and stove auto-shuts off during spills2022-03-13
- Temperature mode cycles on and off, making the heat inconsistent and annoying2022-03-13
- Touch sensors turn off or stop working when a few drops of water spill2022-03-13
- Heat and temp settings are ambiguous and don't match actual food temperature2022-03-13
- Stoves turn themselves off mid-cook and use touch controls instead of simple knobs2022-03-13
- Tall users keep bumping their heads on the overhead hood2022-03-13
- Red light blinks when turned off, confusing the user about the cooktop's state2022-03-13
- Touch controls fail with wet hands and pets can accidentally switch them on2022-03-12
- Some models let you set only one heat source at a time, which is infuriating2022-03-12
- Cooktop controls are confusing and hard to use, per the commenter2022-03-12
- Touch screen only lets you control one heat source at a time2022-03-12
- Stir-frying on induction cooktops is maddening because the cooking style doesn't work well with them2022-03-12
- Simple actions like raising power need multiple presses and modes; nothing is obvious2022-03-12
- Hard to find how induction coils are designed and what heating pattern results2022-02-09
- Beeps annoyingly the moment a pan is lifted, with no grace period2022-02-04
- Touch buttons don't respond with wet or greasy hands, so turning off a pot takes too long2022-01-31
- Linked zones heat unevenly, so the feature doesn't work well2022-01-15
- Touch controls are abysmal and hard to operate reliably2022-01-15