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).

      • Wrench@lemmy.worldEnglish
        40·
        11 months ago

        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.

        • danielton@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          11 months ago

          I don’t get how this would be cheaper to manufacture. They’d need to make five different switches.

          • Lev_Astov@lemmy.worldEnglish
            13·
            11 months ago

            By knobs, you mean rotary switches, I assume. I think the thing is they cheaped out by not designing the switches they needed. Instead they just sourced whatever rotary switches they could find that had the number of outputs they needed for these weird, segmented burners, regardless of their potentiometer directions.

    • Daqu@feddit.deEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      They had different teams working on each knob to speed up the design process.