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I have no idea what all those buttons on a microwave are for. I just stick it in the box, and blast it in 30 second increments.
Lol.
Going through a Red Light (after a complete stop) at 3am in a desolate area when you are the only car on the road.
Also depends on the type of Brown Rice. We have one now, that cooks the same as white, but I bought one before that had a super thick hard casing and even after an hour of boiling it was still crunchy
Going through a Red Light (after a complete stop) at 3am in a desolate area when you are the only car on the road.m
There will always be a cop watching that intersection. Do so at your own peril. I’d end up shot.
Or even just a red light cam.
Not in my city. Running a red light is scarily common here. I once saw a pickup truck blow through 3 lights consecutively.
Do you live in Oakland California?
Nope. Somewhere much sadder.
I’ve been in this exact 3am situation. Good thing I didn’t have time to actually make it into the intersection, because I would have absolutely been destroyed by the semi that came out of fucking nowhere going 20 mph over the limit.
Going through a Red Light (after a complete stop) at 3am in a desolate area when you are the only car on the road.
Definitely look both ways and be cautious. Anyone who has seen The Mexican knows what I mean.
I will roll the windows down, because in a desolate area you are going to hear cars.
Unless they’re travelling faster than the speed of sound.
Fair point
You can wash sheets on the towel setting.
Look at the millionaire that has a towel setting.
People use those settings? It all goes through the heavy soiled gauntlet for me
For EU folks: the Eco setting actually cleans the most thoughly
I assume it was supposed to be “thoroughly” but I like “thoughly”, it should be a word.
Oh god not another one of those tough thorough thought ones xD
Maybe others don’t heavily soil their sheets
Live a little
This made my day
You don’t have a peeing section in your bed?
Of course not, I pee in my wellies in the closet like a civilised person!
well, if you have kids…
Having children makes you shit the bed‽ 😲 I don’t think I want any of those then.
No, you misunderstand: They’re washing by passing their stuff through gauntlets.
Like gauntlets without fingertips? Driving gauntlets?
A dirty gauntlet at that. Not sure how that helps for laundry, but everyone has their own process.
Ah, that makes so much sense now!
To be clear though, the arcade machines or the gloves?
The arcade machines are superior because they can handle four at a time!
that is probably making your clothes age out faster than they need to (and takes longer and uses more power/water).
I’m mostly riffing on the mr lovestein comic, I don’t actually do that
I don’t do that either.
Because I look at that written before buying and then don’t buy it.
I wash clothes when the hamper is full, about once every two weeks. Everything together (except whites) longest wash, hot water.
Whatever comes out the other side goes back in the closet for the next round.
People make a big deal about buying clothes, washing clothes, folding clothes, organizing closets, matching clothes, shoes, belts, accessories, brands, who wears what when, blah, blah, blah.
Weather and society permitting, I wouldn’t even wear clothes. Fuck clothes.
Yeah but then your sheets will be extra absorbent and you’ll get dry skin.
Fine? Sure. But the proper setting, especially on a higher end rice cooker, will result in better rice.
And I recognize that Zojirushi pot, so it definitely can make good rice.
I had to put all my stuff in storage then move across the country recently. I did not bring my cuckoo rice cooker with me, and damn I didn’t realize how spoilled I’ve gotten. The rice I’m cooking in a cheap one just isn’t as good. I think it is over-cooking the rice, but it’s actually hard to dial in
this reminds me of how my friend recently used our entire allotment of coffee grounds to dial in the coffee maker at the place we were staying
ten probably hungover people the morning after a wedding, and this guy used all the grounds to
makeend up with 2/3 of a pot of coffee, then dipped before anyone else but me woke uplove the guy, but that was not what I wanted to enter the kitchen to see
Wait, what do you mean “dial in”? I’m unfamiliar with this term in the context of coffee makers. Do they need to be calibrated?
Like, did he make a batch, taste it, say “too weak,” toss it, then make another, taste, “too strong,” toss, and so on until he gets one that’s “just right”?
If so, what an asshole.
Or did he just dump an entire can of grounds in the hopper, brew a 2/3 pot, then dump the resulting motor oil in a travel mug before dipping out?
If so, still, what an ass.
the first is exactly what he did lmao
I brought enough coffee for like half a dozen pots
Not only is that selfish, it’s also kinda stupid.
Like did he really need to pour it out because it didn’t suit him? If anything he could have moved it to a different container so that other people could still have some.
But also it’s like… if you don’t know the right ratio it’s not hard to ask. If there’s a scooper it’s usually like one scoop per two cups of water. Getting the precision down to ± three decimal places isn’t exactly necessary.
But whatever. I digress…
Coffee people are weird
Yes, we are the monolith known as coffee people and we have no variation of personal opinion, methodology, or taste 🙄
Ah yes and then the next bag is at a different level of roast and freshness and must be re-dialed in again
I’ve heard great things about the Cuckoos, my little Zojirushi is perfect though.
Oooh damn, I thought cuckoo was an adjective but it’s a brand name.
https://cuckooamerica.com/collections/rice-cookers
Damn you people are wealthy or just really really love your rice.
Spend a couple hundred dollars once and never have to buy a rice cooker again, and have perfect rice every time. The total cost of my machine up to now is probably a couple pennies per batch of rice made (if that). They can also do more than just rice, I regularly steam veggies and even cook meat while my rice cooks.
An instant pot does perfectly good rice too. Though it takes a bit of trial to get then ratios right.
That’s the advantage of high quality rice cookers, they can adapt if you get the ratios wrong. I’ve definitely been too drunk and added an extra 1/4 cup of water, but it does its best and still turns out okay.
Some things are worth splurging on. Having said that, $500+ for a rice cooker is just too much. 😅
It always comes down to boot theory.
I bought my Zorirushi at Goodwill for $7.99.
And yes, I love my rice.
Yeah, check Goodwills and estate sales. Old people like buying expensive nice shit, so you can pay pennies on the dollar for good stuff at Estate Sales.
I’m of the opinion that if you have to cook your rice in a $600 machine, you like your machine more than you like rice
I can like both equally. My Zojirushi sings a lovely little song when it finishes cooking the rice, how could not love it.
Better how
If you put in less water than the rice needs, it will result in a chewier texture, like undercooked pasta. Too much water, and it will cook down too much, become gluey and mushy. Perfectly cooked rice is incredible, and I didn’t realize how good plain rice could be til I was an adult and had it prepared correctly.
It’s like coffee. There are troglodytes out there who will tell you instant is just as good as anything else.
I own a rice cooker. I admit that it makes better rice more consistently. But I still use a pot on the stove most of the time because I can get it done quicker, but at the expense of it sometimes being mushy.
The true rebel we need in these times.
I ordered a cake for my birthday that said Happy 29th. I’m 40, they didn’t even check my ID or anything.
I stopped buying birthday cakes when I realised most well-known places don’t really make them to be eaten but to look good in pictures and then be splattered onto faces. They were not tasty.
I’m sorry. Where I’m from birthday cakes are still made for eating.
Happy belated 29th birthday! What, I’m not checkin your ID, either
Hmm. You didn’t mention how belated. This all checks out.
It’s an older cake, but it checks out.
The maniacs will sell you the cake even if it’s nowhere near close to your birthday.
I hope you at least got one that comes with little tractors on top.
Also that it wasn’t even your actual birthday.
I order the club sandwich all the time and I’m not even a member, man.
Mitch Hedberg
“I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn’t have one. So I got a cake.” - Mitch Hedberg
How do you feel about frilly toothpicks?
I’m for em!
Bro is just doing shit
“I have a dream that my four little cups of rice […] will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their macronutrients.”
What i dont get is how sushi and white rice is nearly identical.
My machine at home also does this. There is a minor difference in height indication but so narrow you can get the water to the top of one line and the bottom if the other line.
Rice vinegar needs somewhere to fit in the rice
Rice vinegar is only added after the rice is cooked. The indication is to what level water should be added to coock it with.
You don’t need a fancy slow cooker, you can use an oven to slow cook multiple things at once, or really big things. Oven-slow-cooked turkey is great (if you like turkey, anyway).
unless you want crispy outsides on the things, then crowding the oven makes it too humid in there
I’ve never had anything in the slow cooker end up crispy anyway, since there’s a lid that keeps the heat and thus steam in, so thats a non-problem.
Life, really.
You can put cinnamon rolls in a waffle maker to make instant cinnamon roll waffles.
You can put a bunch of pancake batter in a rice cooker to make a big ass crazy pancake. I’ve only done it once, but it was like 2 inches thick, cooked perfectly all the way through, and super delicious.
Proof the Nobel prizes in science are fixed.
Might have to try this…
This is BEYOND SCIENCE
Just don’t try it at the San Rafael Marriott
^ A modern day Prometheus right here.
Brown rice takes longer to cook I thought? My life is a lie.
That looks like a higher end zujirushi rice cooker which is probably why it came oot fine even with the wrong setting.
I need a better ricecooker.
I just have an Aroma one, and while it does a fantastic job of cooking white and brown rice, its a PITA to clean up to the point I hate even having rice now.
I have an aroma one and cleaning is so easy rice is all I want to eat now, I wonder why the disparity. Do you know something I don’t?
Someone correct me, but for rice alone, the cheapest rice cooker will do the job just as well as a Ninja or some shit like that, and may be easier to clean if it has just a lid compared to 5 different parts.
If you dont trust those, the Japanese style egg-shaped ones are still affordable and just work.I cook mine in a small Instant Pot pressure cooker. Doesn’t cook any faster - well it does but it uses up all time gained in building up pressure - but does a great job. It does, however, use one half as much water.
Best thing, it’s one less specialized appliance. That Instant Pot gets lots of use. Makes awesome yoghurt too.
I’ve literally never had an issue not separating laundry. Years of mixed loads never any colours bled, I thought the whole thing was a myth.
Last week I washed a red dress of my wife’s with whites, and all my shirts came out pink like a sitcom. It’s real people.
Most of your white clothes are more like grey off white now if you’d care about that. I dont.
They make these sheets you throw in with your mixed color loads, I think called Color Catchers or something?
I used to do that too until I had to use shirts to work. White shirts lose that sheen and bright white so quickly if you mix them.
If you wash whites with black & colored items they become grey. perhaps generally unnoticeable but it’s one of those details that makes people look really well put together.
same! i washed some red pants that i bought at an international clothes market and now i have a bunch of pink clothes!! i consider it an upgrade
Was that red dress washed before? I always wash new clothes before the first wear, then just separate lights and darks in general. (Disclaimer: I own literally zero white clothes, so even the light ones are already pastel colours.)
I always sort mine by white, black, everything else. The whites can be bleached a bit to give 'em pop. The blacks don’t get fuzzies from the colors. After washing I pull the stuff that shouldn’t be dried, like hats, bras and shoes, and pull the stuff that’s spun down to barely damp, hang that stuff.
Shoes??
They’re these things you wear on your lower extremities for protection, comfort, warmth or fashion.
They even provide more than one of those benefits much of the time!
Holy shit that sounds awesome. Can I buy them anywhere or do I have to make these things myself?
But that’s not important right now…
Too much wear and tear. They weren’t meant to be dried in a tumbler.
I guess my question is what are they doing in the wash to begin with. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before
I wash on cold (or warm) and stopped separating laundry by colour a while ago and now separate it by purpose. Like a load of my clothes, a load of my daughter’s clothes (that she loads and unloads herself, not raising someone that gets confused when she needs to clean her clothes when she moves out), towels get their own load (with added bleach, colourful ones just fade over time), same with bedsheets (no bleach here though).
If I remember, I’ll do new colourful clothes separately on their first wash with the assumption that most of the dye that is going to come out will come out during the first wash.
I went the other way. Never separated for ages, then I got some nice wool socks for work. I don’t care about colors running, but I do want to minimize wear on my delicate clothes, and need to use more expensive detergent for the wool. So now I do my whites on a more delicate cycle. And I’m suddenly finding my flimsy cheap-ass home socks and boxers that used to disintegrate in no time are lasting waayyyyy longer.
Another thing you can do is swap dryer sheets for felted wool balls. I’ve also added tennis balls. Helps dry them faster (I think because the balls create pockets of air for the moisture to get into as they tumble, and the wool seems to play a similar role as the sheets electrically, not sure if the tennis balls do the same or are neutral in that regard).
Apparently dryer sheets are rough on clothes. Though tbh I don’t know whether the increased mechanical damage from the tennis balls are easier on it than the chemical damage from the sheets. And I’ve never had boxers or socks disintegrate from the laundry, mine have failed more from wear and tear from use (with dryer sheet or without). So this might be more of an experiment recommendation than a “this will work better”.
I have never used any dryer sheets etc, and have tried to move away from the dryer entirely. The dryer itself is the biggest avoidable source of wear and tear, heat and unnecessary mechanical agitation. If I am early enough in doing my laundry on Saturday I hang it up, I only use the dryer now if I was late and need them dried before work on Monday.
You can use vinegar to set dyes.
Red dye is particularly hard to set unless the Dyer knows and cares to do it
The dumb shit you learn when you date someone who does historically accurate recreation events…
When you learn about dyes (dies?) and pigments: 😤😤😤
It’s not that hard, but 0.1cent per 35€ tshirt adds up I guess.
Were there also historically accurate procreation events?
Only half way, they didn’t seem to want to deliver babies like in the very olden times, but making the babies definately happened in character from time to time
It really is just very red things and white things you can’t mix.
Dude I had also been doing that for years and I just had a hoodie bleed onto all my clothes. Idk wtf
Just don’t buy red clothes
Crip detected
Yeah I had a great city wok logo shirt that I loved but it was literally the only red thing I owned and I didn’t feel like giving it it’s own wash so it got stored away.
Wash on cold. It mostly solves this issue.
