I kept burning my food or wait forever for the pan to heat up and I finally understand why. Each knob has a different direction for the Hi and Lo (also why isn’t it Low).
You have double burners. Some of your knobs have two HI and two LO positions, one for one burner and one for both burners.
On top of the stove this looks like two concentric heating elements. You can turn on one or both. Turning on both is sometimes called a “fast boil” burner.
The best solution the industry has come up with is to put two control surfaces into one knob, so instead of the control surface being a full circle it’s a half circle.
There’s no way to make all the knobs match in appearance unless all the burners have optional double burner operation.
source: am appliance salesman.
Yes they’re double burners but the Lo -> Hi rotation is different for each position which is infuriating, but only mildly.
I see what you mean.
What they should do is make the rule: “clockwise is hotter”, and make all the LO…HI arcs increase in the clockwise direction.
Then no matter which burner you’re adjusting, you know it’s a clockwise movement.
They should also have a little LED light bar that changes length to show how high that burner’s setting. As you turn clockwise, it lengthens toward “full on”.
The LED light bar should light up whenever a knob is touched.
Need high temp LEDs too I guess.
My folks had a stove with two (electric) heat elements in the same way I assume OP has, to use both, you had to go 360° all the way to a full circle where it “clicked”, then go back to where you wanted it at. Much easier and sensible IMO than whatever the hell this headache is.
You’ll love it more when the numbers get washed off. Here’s mine.
How in the hell did this make it to market?
Mass consumerism and companies not caring.
Their target audiences are home flippers who just need the cheapest stainless steel appliances that look fine at a glance, and cheap landlords that don’t understand that they’re choosing themselves more money in the long run.
I don’t get how this would be cheaper to manufacture. They’d need to make five different switches.
You can get an engraver for like $12 of Amazon, with a little practice you can probably ingrave new numbers and paint fill them.
Oh God, playing Russian Roulette with your food using that knob.
Honestly, I just never use that burner!
Haha yeah. I have the same one from Samsung.
Samsung makes shit home appliances.
Everything Samsung is bad (except some phones). TV are cripples with ads, fridges, there’s a whole sub about how bad they are… and so on.
Just wait until they start charging subscription fees for appliance features. Believe me, that’s coming.
OMG I just had a vision of a future where cooking recipes had DRM. “Chicken detected. In order to cook your chicken to the right temperature, you need a delicious home food subscription. Tap on the top left burner to subscribe” also the burner is on.
My high ass would burn the house down using this.
Yes.
One office I worked in had a toaster with a knob where “off” is almost all the way to the left.
Turning the knob to the right lets you control the toasting time, like any other knob-based timer.
But if you turn it left from the “off” position, that’s the “stay on” position.
So if you’d set the timer, and then wanted to cancel it, you can’t just turn it all the way left like on any other knob timer. If you do that, you’re telling it to stay on forever and eventually scorch the table and set off the fire alarm.
My dryer has a “less dry” setting.
Who likes their laundry done rare?
That actually makes sense for things you want to finish drying on a line so they don’t heat up too much and shrink.
Also for ironing
Also for if you enjoy the feeling of cold damp underwear.
Cold damp underwear sucks.
Cold damp socks on the other foot…
It’s so hard to grow fungi otherwise
never been a problem for me
I’m trying to picture wearing a sock on one foot, and underwear on the other…
This looks like an AI-generated fever dream nightmare.
mildly?
This is fucking pitchfork worthy
I can explain this one! When the knob only has one set of hi/lo, it controls the burner’s heat as you’d expect, and it all works in the same direction. Those with multiple hi/lo sets control the heat and the size of the burner, since there are 2 (and on one, maybe 3?) concentric heating elements available for that knob.
I’ve had something similar for years, and have never had an issue. I’m even less likely to accidentally choose the wrong knob since the single-size one tends to have a looser feel to it.
Traslation: you get used to weird design.
It took me about a minute to figure the same, before reading the comment, and I never had a multi element burner.
Maybe OP, you, and a lot of other people in the thread are being a bit overdramatic?
nice features, albeit highly situational, and probably useless for most home cooks. I imagine R&D needed something new for the model and over-engineered it.
I have different sized pots and pans, so it actually really comes in handy for that
The issue is the direction of the Hi Lo. One it’s clockwise the other counter and the other it depends on which burner size you want.
Yes they’re rings one double and one triple.
Each one that controls only one size gets hotter as you go counter-clockwise
Yea but the extra ring ones are all over the place.
There are two knobs that control burners with multiple sizes. One of them, like mine, controls two sizes. You can turn either direction to control the burner size you want, and it’ll go high to low regardless. The other has three burner sizes. There is no third way to turn a knob, so they needed a different approach.
At first I thought this was a new Marshall amp.
That last one is what kills me. Three different ranges of lo-hi, who does that?
Are these like different pictures of range knobs mashed together? I find it almost impossible to believe they put a different style control for each possible position.
On mine the left most knob controls the front and the one next to it does the back. On the right side they are reversed so Im constantly lighti g the wrong one.
That’s at least semi normal. Outside knobs are front, inside are back. Center for the oven.
As long as they’re labeled and spin the same way, I’m fine.
But what Lovecraftian villain came up with OP’s oven controls?
At least “Off” is consistent. That could have been a total train wreck.
I bought a portable electric space heater a few years ago that had an alarming tendency to rewire itself - like, “Off” would become “Low”, “High” would become “Fan” etc. Finally took it apart and realized that the dial was just a contact that rolled across a bit of printed solder and occasionally the solder would melt (no way they could have expected that to happen in a fucking heater) and flow into a new pattern. I have absolutely no idea why thousands of people haven’t burned themselves to death with these things.
Are the 300 deaths and 21800 fires not enough? People absolutely do burn themselves to death with space heaters. Source: https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2002/CPSC-Offers-Tips-to-Prevent-Home-Fires-Caused-by-Space-Heaters-Devices-Associated-with-21800-Fires-and-300-Deaths-Annually
Mine has burners like this too and I hate it. Very confusing!
Looking at the one in the top left… imagine if that was for an amplifier. Like, you have to pass through maximum to reach off. That would be the worst to live near.
What witchcraft is this on earth!? Crime against humanity?
Thanks Frigidaire
There’s your problem. Their appliances are junk. I’ve got a Frigidaire fridge and it has a bunch of known issues. The refrigerant line is too close to the back of the fridge, causing the back panel to rust. The line for the ice maker also freezes a lot. The bottom of the fridge is very cold to the point where stuff freezes (the water line runs near here).
All know issues for the model I’ve got. Outside of warranty, so all Frigidaire could offer was a 10% off coupon for a new fridge… As if I’d buy a Frigidaire again.
Frigidaire literally invented the modern fridge. You’d think they’d know how to build a good one by now.
