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Stove controls
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2018–2025), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Stove controls, 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
- New stove is hard to use, designer never cooked2025-01-16
- Unintuitive timers and poor-quality knobs on cooking appliances in rentals2023-12-19
- Can't tell which burner a knob controls, so turns on the wrong one2021-10-14
- Knobs stop in one direction, and some need a brief 11 turn-and-spring-back to activate, so people can't tell how to use them2018-02-25