Look at my stupid new cooker

[WeekendInNewEngland]

I’ve recently bought a new Belling cooker to replace my broken one. Everything seemed great until I came to use the oven. The little indicator line at the top that points to the temperature turns with the knob so once you turn it past about 45 degrees you can’t see where it’s pointing to unless you get on the floor and peer up at it, and it’s a faint line anyway and not easy to see! So I’ve now got to get some kind of marker or sticker to indicate where the damn thing is pointing to.

How is such an obvious design failing missed in development? Did nobody ever try to set the oven temperature during the whole process? Honestly my mind boggles at the stupidity.

Tell me about your stupidly designed appliances if you like.

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Safe space indeed. I ventured into a budget ‘discussion’ and ventured an opinion of my own - some very angry people out there. Much cosier in the kitchen.

Why have they made all appliances far too complicated now?.

I have a washer that does beep, beep, delay, beep, delay, beep, delay, beep..... for at least 7 minuets before it starts. Why just why?

What idiot thought this was a good idea?.

If I were designing a washing machine or any other appliance they would be really simple and easy to use.
The washer would have max 4 settings, or you decide the length of time, temperature and spin sped.

I don’t know if my Virgin360 box is on Mumsnet but since I slagged it off it has decided to not only stop recording anything that was planned but it also won’t let me watch any of the shows and films that I already had in my recordings. Factory reset and just turning it on and off at the plug haven’t worked so one of us will have to ring up about it. So bloody annoying!

My stupid touch screen hob. Except unless the light is just right and you can see the faint impression of the on button you've got no chance. DH uses it basically as an excuse not to cook.

Roughly a day after it was out of warranty, I happened to wipe the front of my washing machine. Half the programme numbers around the knob wiped off. Thankfully most of the programmes seem pointless and I can remember the position for the one I mainly use.

My car has a glass roof feature which has a sliding cover on the inside. If it is even slightly sunny, you can't see see your satnav or the control panel so it is rarely uncovered. Fun on the occasional snowy day but otherwise, again, utterly pointless.

At least you have the regulation 1” gap to the side - big enough for food to fall down but too small to clean adequately.

My new Neff oven has shiny black knobs with a tiny indent to show you where it points. Unless I get a headtorch and magnifying glass I can't see it. I've had to apply stickers🙄

Oh god the gap! There’s a distressing backstory to the gap of doom. When we had the kitchen installed it was built around a lovely 800mm Smeg range cooker. Within two years all the markings had worn off the knobs. The oven failed beyond repair soon after. When we looked for a replacement, that cooker wasn’t being made in that width any more. In fact, no cookers are, unless we want to pay upwards of £4,000. Which strangely enough we don’t. So now we have a regular size cooker, a narrow drawer unit on wheels to fill some of the space, and some lovely gaps of doom which I swear have a kind of magnetic field that drags stray pieces of food into them.

I was at my mum's last week and heard this music coming from the kitchen. It went on and on for about three or four minutes. When I asked her what it was it's the new washing machine telling her it's finished. We tried to reset it to get a normal beep but to no avail so now she's stuck with a singing washing machine. She'd love a machine that goes beep.

My tumble drier. No matter which setting you put it on, several times it will emit a high pitched beep which is at some frequency that sends my dog into a quivering wreck. I hate the stupid thing.

Bit of an aside and it's not a new thing: control valves on radiators are always at floor level and it's impossible to see what number they are set on and to adjust them, unless you get down on all fours: really annoys me and my old knees!

Gap of doom or £4k. I think you made the right choice!

There looks to be a similar mark on the end of the knobs? On the second one in from the right, it's in line with lightbulb icon or is that something else?

No there’s no other mark. Probably a bit of egg or something.

Yes really enjoyed justlostmybagel’s misreading as looking at stupid coworkers and Laiste’s TV remote that generates a ‘penal’ on the screen.
makes my recessed fridge handle seem tame, it just includes touch controls (so you alter the fridge temperature every time you clean the handle).

draw on it with acrylic marker.

We have a double plug socket behind the toaster that has to have extra things plugged in. I wrote on them all as the plugs were all identical in colour.

Love this thread.
I'll add - new remote where the central "pressy" button is also rollable like a tiny joystick/mouse ball. Actually quite useful for pointing to something on screen but when you come to press the button, about half the time I inadvertently roll it as well so end up clicking on something totally different from what I intended!

Fgfgfg

A singing washing machine is really funny, at the very least you should be able to choose what it plays when it's finished, bit like a jukebox.

The number of washing machine programmes is way to complicated. If I designed a washing machine it would have 4 options:

1. Dirty
2. Filthy
3. Should be burnt
4. Delicates (for my clothes)

That’s all I need.

And don’t start me about changing the oven clock…..

https://www.bestproductsreviews.co.uk/kitchen-counter-gap-cover

Have a look at them , unfortunately they are to narrow for my oven because it's got about a 3 inch gap on both sides so I use a strip of tinfoil folded over several times ( for strength) and taped down with masking tape. It looks a bit odd but it works .

Oh they look promising! I bought some silicone ones but they just kept falling off.

Good luck ! If all else fails practice your tinfoil origami 😀

I wouldn't even have that, just separate dials for temperature, agitation, number of rinses, speed of spin. My (singing) machine has all sorts of programs, but no way to gently wash a swimsuit and then give it a proper spin. Which will do no more harm than the proper spinners you get at the pool.

And another thing... it supposedly has a special no-crease option. I thought this would be like my old machine which used to give the clothes a bit of a shake in the other direction part way through. Or even better you could do "rinse hold" and it would occasionally toss them about in the water until you were ready to do the final spin.
But no, if you choose the no-crease option this super duper (singing) machine simply reduces the spin speed to 400rpm. So you get creased clothes that are still wet.

OP, I just looked at your picture to admire the gap, and need to tell you, the gas ring is still on.