Post by @herrvogel@lemmy.world

2026-10-20 11:48 UTC

The problem is not with the controls fundamentally, it’s with the low quality controls. A glass touch surface has merit: it’s extremely easy to clean and keep clean, you’re never gonna get boiling pasta juice in there and corrode the contacts or whatever. It’s just that the manufacturers use the worst, most pathetic sensors that stop working as soon as the surface gets slightly moist. My own induction stovetop is pretty bad in that regard, but my parents’ significantly more expensive one is perfectly fine. The control part of the glass surface never gets very hot either. Point is, it’s pretty good when done right. But they often don’t do it right.

Replies (5)

@ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-10-20 13:35

The problem is give me a damned knob. The highest quality touchscreen on earth that works perfectly not matter what is on my hands and never makes a mistake would still be shittier than a simple fucking knob.

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@schnokobaer@feddit.org 2026-10-20 12:14

Knobs belong on the front of the stove, under the ledge of the range/counter where you can’t spill anything on anyway. Induction already wins cleanliness by a mile through not burning in whatever lands on the cooktop. No need to make knobs worse to make them easier to clean, when they don’t get dirty in the first place.

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@Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-20 12:29

No, touch screens are always shit compared to knobs. You might have even worse touch screens but that’s just like even worse!

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@panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2026-10-20 16:21

But I never want to try and find the right place to touch a flat surface when I’m in the middle of basting meat and my pot is boiling over. Analog style dials (they’re digital now) are easy to reach without looking, which keeps your focus on the task. Muscle memory is super important for flow.

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@olafurp@lemmy.world 2026-10-20 16:32

Easy to wipe true, but what if instead of a capacitor button we can have a magnetic control board with magnetic push keys? It would be fully removable, attachment magnet snaps it into place and then it’s essentially a button with a magnet physically travelling up and down. The I really hate the capacitor buttons since if you get pasta that boils over it fucks with the buttons pretty fast and the “off button” is just not good for quickly turning it off when flooded. It’s same for pan cooking sauce that splashes a bit, wiping the surface moist rag can have mixed results, paper towels become a requirement. There’s just a lot to not like. A standard knob, as long as it’s not designed by an idiot, can be very simple by having a piece of heat resistant non corrosive material stuck out of the stove top and the button having a 1cm gap under it. Just make the pin chonky and you can drop a pan on it without anything happening. Lift the button off and it becomes still very easy to clean.

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