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Can’t a man just love stove?
I know it's off topic but the stove design looks really weird to me. Why would you design a stove with all the knobs at the very back where they are hard to reach?
Only reason I can think is to prevent kids from touching them
100%. Electric ranges tend to have a lot of safety features built in and/or come with them. They also come with a clamp for the leg of the stove to be slid into so if a child were to climb on the door it wouldn't tip over.
And pets. I've got two fur monsters that like to jump on things when we're not around to correct, no matter how many times we've taught them not to. They won't do it when we're home, but as soon as we're away, counter surfing is the rule of the day, and with front-of-oven knobs on a gas stove we have come home multiple times to a small gas leak. We've taken to removing the knobs when it's not in use, which is fine but annoying. I'd much prefer back-of-oven knobs though.
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They're not hard to reach for a normal sized adult.
Yeah but reaching over a pan that is spitting oil everywhere because it's too hot is not fun.
I've never known a modern stove to have the controls anywhere else, and I've never really considered reaching over a pot or pan to turn the thing off. Most of the time, I'll take the pot or pan off the stove first so it doesn't burn. And if I am simply turning down the heat to go from boiling to simmering, I go around not over.
I can totally see where you're coming from tho. I grew up with this style; I've been tempered by the grease and steam of experience lol
That's really odd. I had never seen a stove with controls over and behind the hobs like this until today. If you just google "Stove" then 90% of the images are with the dials on the front, both home and commercial ranges. I don't think it's the norm to have controls positioned potentially hidden by superheated objects and seems like something that could even fall afoul of safety laws in the EU.
Try searching for "electric stove" and you'll see that 95% figure swap the other direction. I'm in the US and probably 95% of the stoves I've seen have the controls in the back like this one.
I'm guessing gas ranges are more common in the EU and more commonly have front controls but they aren't as common in the US. Our house has natural gas but only for the fireplace and furnace. The stove is electric. Of all the people I know, I think only one has a gas stove in their home.
I've only had electric stoves everywhere I've lived for the past 20 years of my adult life across various EU countries, along with every friend, family or airbnb I've stayed at. I didn't even know the controls could be positioned back there! It seems wild to me that could ever be the norm.
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Every electric stove I've used in my 30 years of life in Canada has had the knobs at the back.
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It's common in America, especially with electric stoves. All gas stoves I've seen use the front, though.
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What, you don't like your arm being incinerated when you go to turn the heat off?
What's wrong with you, that's the best bit.
It's induction and unless you are dragging your arm across the top the likelihood of burning yourself is nil.
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To make them harder to reach so that you (or a child) don't accidentally turn one of the burners on when you don't intend to use it.
It looks a bit old fashioned tbh. In Norway it's all separate tops and ovens. All the tops are induction and the controls are mostly touch sensitive areas on the top itself.
To burn your arms of course!
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Imagine your kid posting silly pictures of your face on the internet, probably without consent.
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NGL I plan to be this kind of dad.
I think it's funny when my kids get a bit embarrassed at my inability to do something. My kids are almost getting to that age where I can amp the cringe to technology.
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That man did not stop trying.
He leaned in and is killin' it.
Classic case of, “I’m not giving up, I’m giving in.”
That’s frickin hilarious lol. I put in a new stove last year and wish I would’ve done this ngl lol
Lol I would ground my son if he posted a pic of me doing derpy shit on the Internet
Look at his age. His child is likely also a grown adult he wouldn't be able to ground anyway(also likely the reason for the picture; they likely don't even live one enough for a quick visit).
TIL that phones do that thing.
Save those pictures, one day you will look back on them and they will bring you peace.
Sincerely, A son who misses his father
I haven't laughed this hard at a post in a long time
I think I have the same stove
...oh, somebody tell me how to turn this on so i can use it for my punch list next week!..
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