Amana 30 in. AKS3040BSS Gas Cooktop

I purchased this cooktop for the wrong reason: it was the only 30" stainless steel & black gas cooktop I could find at the time. I've had it about a year now, and I have actually stopped cooking -- something I took real joy in before I bought this...

I do like this gas cooktop, as far as it seems to cook OK... but the knobs are so close to the burners that when you turn on the flame with a pan sitting on the burner it ALWAYS burns your knuckles... I've just learned to light the flame without a pan...

We bought a new Amana "First Edition" range with the flush quartz halogen glass cooktop about two year ago, when our existing range lost power in two burners.