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Touch-control stoves
Raised as a usability problem by 19 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2012–2026), in 15 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Stove touch controls fail with wet or greasy fingers and switch offUnreviewed
20122026- Touch controls go haywire with moist fingers, forcing drying before regaining control2026-08-09
- Touch-only controls make it hard to quickly turn off the range in an emergency2026-01-06
- Touch buttons fail with wet hands and go haywire when food boils over2025-06-17
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 19 complaints
- Touch controls go haywire with moist fingers, forcing drying before regaining control2026-08-09
- Touch-only controls make it hard to quickly turn off the range in an emergency2026-01-06
- Touch buttons fail with wet hands and go haywire when food boils over2025-06-17
- Touch controls misread wet or oven-mitted hands, so the commenter can't operate them reliably2023-12-18
- Touch buttons give no feedback, respond slowly, and require selecting a burner before adjusting heat2023-04-27
- Touch controls ignore presses with wet fingers, need several taps to turn on, and power changes take many presses2022-07-25
- Touch controls are hard to activate with wet or greasy fingers and keep switching off2022-05-25
- Can't tell whether sliders should be dragged or tapped; no physical cue for operation2022-05-25
- Touch buttons don't register index finger presses, forcing trial and error2022-05-25
- Touch buttons are unintuitive and painfully slow to operate2022-05-25
- Touch controls are frustrating to operate compared with physical knobs2022-01-15
- Can't turn off the hob in dim light because touch areas are barely visible2021-12-10
- Can't quickly select programs; temperature up button unreliable, worse with dirty fingers2020-10-03
- Step-based touch controls give coarse, awkward adjustment compared to knobs2020-09-20
- Knobs with a stop prevent turning directly from off to max2018-02-25
- Touch buttons are unresponsive, making the stove hard to control2016-11-05
- Setting one burner's power takes about ten finger presses instead of one knob turn2016-08-22
- Touch controls beep and shut off when water or oil splashes on them2016-08-22
- Touch controls can't be adjusted reliably without looking at them2012-01-09