You'll love it more when the numbers get washed off. Here's mine.

My dryer has a "less dry" setting.

Who likes their laundry done rare?

At least “Off” is consistent. That could have been a total train wreck.

mildly?

This is fucking pitchfork worthy

It's like your stove top was the experimental test one where you could see how all the knob styles worked, like it wasn't supposed to be released to the public.

You have double burners. Some of your knobs have two HI and two LO positions, one for one burner and one for both burners.

On top of the stove this looks like two concentric heating elements. You can turn on one or both. Turning on both is sometimes called a “fast boil” burner.

The best solution the industry has come up with is to put two control surfaces into one knob, so instead of the control surface being a full circle it’s a half circle.

There’s no way to make all the knobs match in appearance unless all the burners have optional double burner operation.

source: am appliance salesman.

I'm really trying to understand what's going on here in a way that makes sense, even if it's a twisted kind of sense.

My best guess is that each of these burners are a different size and some have multiple rings and that by turning the knob left (Anti-clockwise), you're going from smaller number of rings to larger number of rings - however, the rings start at their highest heat level. So looking at the bottom right dial as an example, the first "Notch" on the left is the smallest burner on the highest setting, then as you turn left more, it'll dial down that burner until you get to the second ring on the burner - starting at full power for that second burner and continuing to lower power until you get to the 3rd ring, then it's same again for the 4th ring.

Is that right? am I even close? I don't understand why you'd go from smallest burner to highest burner anti-clockwise, but go from lowest burner-power to highest clockwise. That still doesn't make sense to me.

This looks like an AI-generated fever dream nightmare.

The longer I stare at it, the worse it gets ...

what in the actual fuck

I can explain this one! When the knob only has one set of hi/lo, it controls the burner's heat as you'd expect, and it all works in the same direction. Those with multiple hi/lo sets control the heat and the size of the burner, since there are 2 (and on one, maybe 3?) concentric heating elements available for that knob.

I've had something similar for years, and have never had an issue. I'm even less likely to accidentally choose the wrong knob since the single-size one tends to have a looser feel to it.

WTF, they're all different?

MILDLY infuriating!?

This is maybe the worst thing I have seen in my life.

Lo for the same reason it's hi and not high.

That should be illegal, throw it out

Ohhh, that’s just a left-handed stove.

My brain is on fire seeing this

"Which one should we put on the stove?"

"Yes."

Please stop, he’s already dead….

Using "Low" would be more infuriating than "Lo".

The full words are "High" (not "Hi") and "Low", so to save space they use the first two letters "Hi" and "Lo". If they use "Hi" and "Low" it would be inconsistent, e.g. more infuriating.

Last one is the only one that's out of place to me. They all have counter clockwise when solo mode, when 2 modes available, low is at the bottom and high is at the top, makes sense, but the last one is different.

Also, why would it be Low? They're using 2 letters, Hi and Lo are different enough to identify. I'd have to check mine, but using Hi/Lo seems normal.