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I spent last weekend in the Sierras, lounging on boulders set in the Stanislaus River and cooking on this remarkably complicated stove.

The far right buttons are ‘off’ and turning on the stove simply requires the touch of another button…if that button works. While scrambling eggs, it is nice to melt the butter quickly then turn down the heat for cooking the eggs (really great scrambled egga can easily take upwards of ten minutes), but with this old stove includes non-working buttons. Which means that those 10 minute eggs actually take 20 when you realize they’ve stopped cooking.

(The dial is for the oven.)

Category: Designing the Kitchen Experience, Gadgets

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