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> Ovens and stoves should have knobs I can turn with wet or oven-mitted hands Stoves with touchscreen buttons that become completely unusable as soon as more t

by arp242 3y ago

> Ovens and stoves should have knobs I can turn with wet or oven-mitted hands Stoves with touchscreen buttons that become completely unusable as soon as more that 4 water molecules get within a 2 metre radius are infuriating beyond belief. I sometimes had to disable the fuses to turn off the indiction stove. I kid you not. It would beep incessantly if something spilled near the controls (it was all one flat surface, so easy thing to do when e.g. boiling anything) and I just couldn't turn the fucking thing off. I genuinely wonder if the people who designed this have ever tried using it themselves in any real-world conditions. It's just broken.

leoedin 3y ago
I have had a couple of AEG capacitive touch stoves, and they've been pretty good. You do need to have a tea towel to hand to aggressively wipe any spills near the controls - but the stove detects if the controls are wet, locks them out and then gives you about 10 seconds before it turns itself completely off - which is normally enough time to dry the spill. The benefits in ease of cleaning outweigh the negatives in my opinion. And I use that stove a lot.
- arp242 3y ago
  I don't recall what brand I had, it was at my previous rental, and it would indeed "lock up", which is fine but it was damn near impossible to unlock it after that and it just kept on beeping at a it "hurts my ears" volume level. And dealing with the finicky controls while that's inflicted on you while your food is burning ... yeah, I'd rather spend a bit of extra time cleaning.
  - leoedin 3y ago
    If your food is burning, you can always lift the pan off the stove. It's pretty rare that I'm cooking something that is 10 seconds away from being burnt anyway. Saying that, I suspect there's a whole load of manufacturers who put different levels of thought into their capacitive controls. I only gave my example because I'm really happy with it - and so in my opinion it's not a universal problem with touch controls on stoves. Every time I stay in an AirBnB I'm surprised by just how bad a lot of cooking appliances are though - really unintuitive timers, poor quality knobs, very primitive technology (precisely controlling temperature really isn't that hard!)
    - arp242 3y ago
      n=1, and I can't comment on your stove obviously, but I hated mine with such a passion that I will never get anything like this ever again if I have any say in the matter. One of the difficulties of these sort of things is that it's really hard to know if something is any good unless you've actually used it in real-world conditions a few times.

by arp242 3y ago

leoedin 3y ago

I have had a couple of AEG capacitive touch stoves, and they've been pretty good. You do need to have a tea towel to hand to aggressively wipe any spills near the controls - but the stove detects if the controls are wet, locks them out and then gives you about 10 seconds before it turns itself completely off - which is normally enough time to dry the spill. The benefits in ease of cleaning outweigh the negatives in my opinion. And I use that stove a lot.

arp242 3y ago
I don't recall what brand I had, it was at my previous rental, and it would indeed "lock up", which is fine but it was damn near impossible to unlock it after that and it just kept on beeping at a it "hurts my ears" volume level. And dealing with the finicky controls while that's inflicted on you while your food is burning ... yeah, I'd rather spend a bit of extra time cleaning.
- leoedin 3y ago
  If your food is burning, you can always lift the pan off the stove. It's pretty rare that I'm cooking something that is 10 seconds away from being burnt anyway. Saying that, I suspect there's a whole load of manufacturers who put different levels of thought into their capacitive controls. I only gave my example because I'm really happy with it - and so in my opinion it's not a universal problem with touch controls on stoves. Every time I stay in an AirBnB I'm surprised by just how bad a lot of cooking appliances are though - really unintuitive timers, poor quality knobs, very primitive technology (precisely controlling temperature really isn't that hard!)
  - arp242 3y ago
    n=1, and I can't comment on your stove obviously, but I hated mine with such a passion that I will never get anything like this ever again if I have any say in the matter. One of the difficulties of these sort of things is that it's really hard to know if something is any good unless you've actually used it in real-world conditions a few times.