Sure. If you want to spend more time making rice that has a high chance of burning or being overcooked or undercooked, and that you’ll have to put leftovers in the fridge right away, and that you have to remember to turn off when it’s finished etc. Then yeah, a pot and lid works fine. To me, the time savings and the improved quality of the rice together make the premium rice cookers more than worth the investment. Every grain is perfect, not undercooked and crunchy or overcooked and soggy. No burned rice. Just set it and forget it and have perfectly cooked fluffy warm rice ready to eat all day long.

When rice actually tastes incredible every time, you tend to eat it more often. I know I make way more rice now than I did before I got mine.

Actually, while regular bread makers do work, the zojirushi models, when tested head to head with cheaper models, come out ahead every time.

https://youtu.be/h1_UehPO8qc?si=TChNKRLQR39VZp7z

Rice in the instant pot is fine, but it’s a bit more hands on. The rice cooker makes it perfect automatically every time after you put the ingredient in and just press a button. You can also keep the rice warm the entire day so you can make some for breakfast and just use it throughout the day, hot and ready to eat! The convenience of not needing to babysit the rice, put leftovers away right after making it, no chance of burning the rice, every individual grain cooked perfectly etc. It’s worth it. When you have equipment that makes something, normally mediocre, exceptional every time you end up eating it way more often.

Edit: I realize the instant pot has a keep warm function too, but I often make something in my instant pot to go with the rice so it’s better to have a rice cooker for that reason as well.

Continued from OP:

10: Dehydrating anything (air fryer).

Air fryers are dehydrators too! Dehydrate fruit, or make fruit leather. Or dehydrate mini marshmallows to mix with Cheerios for homemade lucky charms!

Make a balsamic reduction.

No doubt you can even easily make your own beef jerky even. I definitely need to try that. So many possibilities.

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So there you have it. 10 major things that you can do with these 5 appliances!

I have billions of Zimbabwe dollars and I picked up litter for 2 hours a few weeks ago. So there’s at least one!

Cable sucks! Great job!

OP in the OP:

Agreed.

A Dr will never prescribe LSD lol

The founder of Alcoholics Anonymous considered LSD to be a great tool to help alcoholics recover. Thank goodness you had that LSD! It changed your life!

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/aug/23/lsd-help-alcoholics-theory

I just assumed you were joking. Good job on all you do!

Who said I was ignoring all that? I’m well aware. But what the Fuck am I supposed to do about it?

I drive a hybrid, pickup litter, recycle, make most of my own food from scratch, and talk about how we need to do more (like with this tongue-in-cheek meme). I ain’t in Congress (yet), but even if I was look how productive they’re being towards this issue.

I’m sorry. Here’s a modified version of the meme:

If we all work together the collapse is not just a dream.

Hoping to speed up the collapse I see lol.

I drive a hybrid.

I recycle everything I can.

I pickup litter.

I try to be as power efficient as possible.

I’m not a vegetarian but I don’t eat meat everyday.

Plus, I post memes that stimulate conversation like this!

Well, the USD is worth 15% less today than it was when the consoles launched. As such, keeping the price the same is the same as discounting it with a stable currency. The price today is the same as $425 at launch, so prices have come down we just don’t see it reflected in the dollar price.

The time value of money crosses my mind similarly. The value of this $5 today if invested instead would be worth XX in X years. Lol

Try doing it on Give Me God Of War difficulty. Aren’t allowed to change the difficulty mode without restarting. I’ve beat 3 of them after finishing the main story, but haven’t picked it up in a few months. Playing Zelda Skyward Sword now.

That’s a feature not a bug.

39% of Americans do not invest in the stock market. Fuck them I guess.

Having 2% deflation instead of 2% inflation would be good for the economy. It would be a baseline to compete against for companies and mean less people would invest in bad investments that just beat inflation.

We also need to stop this ludicrous idea of infinite growth of the economy forever in order to be able to afford to retire. It’s detremental to the environment and to the quality of products the economy produces to expect such.

Inflationary policies and fiat currencies are the fuel behind both world wars lasting as long as they did.

Ancient Rome prospered with a strong currency, when they started debasing their currency it started the fall of Rome. The same will happen to us.

Who also owns some BTC.