• 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

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        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.

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          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.

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            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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                Do you have anything to back that up, or just the conversation above that indicates the contrary?

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                  Burner controls on the front. No regulation on toxic chemicals in consumer products. Highest levels of cancer because of toxic chemicals in consumer products than any other region.

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                    1. I don’t understand why you think the controls on the front are a hazard rather than the ones directly behind the hotplates/burners.

                    2. You must be talking about the PFAS stuff getting legislated on currently. Despite the disappointing u-turn on a blanket ban, they still plan on banning some of the worst offenders. As far as I can tell no other country in the world has banned any at all. The US has phased out manufacturing of some chemicals but still imports and sells products containing those same chemicals.

                    3. State your source for the “highest levels of cancer because of toxic chemicals in consumer products”. Research is only just really beginning on the impact of PFAS, so it would be interesting if you had worldwide data directly connected to their cancer causing impact in humans from consumer products specifically.

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          That’s probably it. There’s probably some EU law somewhere that says that this obviously dangerous design is dangerous and you can’t have it, and then the US is like, we don’t care about our citizens anyway, go right ahead.

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            Different views of dangerous—knobs in front are more easily turned on by children. So they both have their risks.

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              That’s why most off them have to be “unlocked” first. Usually they need to be pushed inwards for a second and then they jjmp out and can be turned. It’s realy just a regional thing between US and EU