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The secret ingredient is crime
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Why are people breaking/losing knobs on their ranges in the first place? I’ve never done that in 4 decades. Seems like an extremely unlikely thing to do.
I would have said the same thing but the enshitification isn't just for the web anymore - I had a 'quality' name brand refrigerator and snapped the drawer down the front because I pulled on it a little too hard. Those things used to be bulletproof but now they're flimsy crap.
Enshittification is probably a large part. However, I can see it.
Our's are plastic, 25 years old, and look like crap. Wash them all you want, they just look dirty all the time. I'd replace them except for the absurd cost for a piece of molded ABS.
I take them off to wash them. I can imagine someone having an accident with one, like washing them in dishwasher and having one fall down onto a heating element. Those are big, but our's are small enough to get knocked down onto the garbage disposal - it would't be easy, and would require an unusual sequence is events, but I've fucked up even more unlikely sequences of events in my life.
I really wish I could get decent aluminum replacements for our's; it wouldn't make the range any newer, but it'd make it look nicer than the black plastic shit that it came with.
Aluminum casting is fun and cheap.
I know my limitations. One of them is patience.
I was thinking the same thing? Who are these animals that somehow destroy a metal knob on a commercial-style $8000 Bosch oven that is made of stainless steel?!
My only guess is that they have children who steal the knobs and flush them down the toilet or something. But the knobs on those high end models are pretty huge which means they would probably get stuck and refuse to flush down.
Those knobs probably aren’t metal, but plastic with a metal plating.
If I paid the obscene amount of money that those things cost I'd be mad as hell if the knobs were made of fucking plastic.
People with toddlers often keep the knobs off as a form of baby proofing, when the kiddos are tall enough to reach but not old enough to listen. It's then easy to lose a knob that isn't in the right place.
I completely forgot until now that my daughter used to steal the knob from our dishwasher on a near daily basis. I remember confiscating it one morning and accidentally bringing it to work in my pocket.
Oh, that's brilliant! I guess its better to lose it all together than to give a toddler access to fire/a really hot thing
Yep. They also sell childproof knob covers for them, you have to pop open the lid to reach them.
I'm embarrassed it took a few times of the toddlers walking off with the knobs inside the covers before we realized we could just... not leave the knobs on. I blame the fact that they never slept more than 90 minutes at a time...
I think if you have young children you shouldn’t have a high end range like this (especially gas). A standard range with the knobs at the back where they’re much harder to reach would be a lot safer.
Sometimes people have kids after moving into a place/buying things, too.
Some guy once broke into my brother's backyard and stole the lid to his BBQ. Just the lid.
Sounds like a tweaker preparing to join a Roman Phalanx
Gods spread Romaboo tweaker!
You can accidentally hit a knob and break it while moving the appliance itself. As for losing them, sometimes you knock one loose and it rolls under the fridge, and it's not worth the effort of moving a large appliance out of its nook just to get the knob back. Shit happens.
Maybe you were just a miracle child who never has accidents. Who knows?
I have never had a range where the knobs are at the front, so that’s probably part of it. They’re much safer at the back.
Ours is a cheap model, but the knobs are held on with a plastic housing inside the knob similar to that middle plastic tube that holds keycaps center on keyboards. Im constantly worried its going to break when i take them off to clean.
Kinda depends on your environment, a lot of plastics are susceptible to degrading in certain temperatures, humidity levels, or especially from being left in direct sunlight.