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!

Yes, but not all those chargers are high quality. I ordered a charger from a brand I never heard of because it had the features I wanted, but it ended up having a seriously noticeable whine when charging anything so I’m returning it today.

Got to research quality brands. As far as I know the best 3rd party brands for charging are Anker, ESR, and Baseus. Have several of each of their products and love them all.

I’ve heard of that. I’m saddened by it and have expanded who I buy my chargers from but I haven’t outright stopped buying from Anker because they just make such high quality chargers with great warranties and customer service. I’ve used them for over a decade and have never had one of their chargers damage a device.

I kinda feel like there’s almost no company without a morally questionable part of them somewhere. Which is very depressing. Even LTT themselves are having a scandal right now.

Our electronics are built with slave labor in all but name in 3rd world countries.

I don’t like buying from Anker after that came out, and it did reduce how much I buy from them overall, but I still do sometimes. It is what it is.

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

WTF? 25gbps? Dang we really do have shitty internet in the States.

'Murica #1!!! (In high internet prices)

Yes

Sync users sharing a much requested feature in the sync community, oh noooooooo…

Sign up for another instance that federates with .world.

I had the same issue you did so I signed up on another instance I liked and now I can browse even when .world is down.

Oh wow that’s smart.

It does! Settings shortcut: Post options > Default post sort

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