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My Dad Doesn't Know How To Turn Off This Front Camera Heart Feature On His Phone And He Tried To Send Me A Pic Of His New Stove
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Never seen a stove with knobs on the front outside of restaurant kitchens. I've been in many houses of varying wealth levels, and never seen that unless in a residential kitchen.
This is regional thing. In Europe it is in front, which is of course superior. /s
American here and I agree. They even do trucks smarter. The boxy version makes it so much easier to judge spaces and distances down over the hood.
But of course, we have to be stubborn and ignorant, because we measure things in feet and fingers and spider legs and bags of salt.
If it's really big they always say how much of a Texas it is. As if anyone really has a good grasp of how big Texas actually is. After all even if you live there it's literally impossible to see all of it at the same time.
People are just bad at scale in general, even for objects we obstensively know about, it's just better to give the actual numbers in my opinion, like, off the top of your head without looking any of it up, is the Eiffel Tower bigger or smaller than the Empire State Building. And what is the difference, are we talking closer to 30 ft or 200 ft?
Is that an American thing then? Here I've never seen a stove with knobs in the back.
Yes, Americans give a shit about their children.
Knobs here have child protection, e.g. you need to hold the knob in a specific place to actually get a flame, and you need to push it in to be able to turn it away from the "off" position.
And if your kids are old enough to reach the top of the stove, you can teach them not to touch it because it's dangerous.
I don't think I can recall any accident here with a child touching those knobs. Maybe European children are just smarter, eh :P?
Gas knobs have the same safety features as you're describing in the US. The back-mounted knobs in OP's image are on an electric stove. It appears Euro kids are not immune from electro hob injury. https://www.electricalsafetyfirst.org.uk/media-centre/press-releases/2017/10/electric-hobs-to-blame-for-more-than-5-of-serious-burns-in-children/