I totally got outvoted on the rice cooker.
We're gonna get a new one.
(Yoshi has to pay for it, though.) :P
Posted by jozjozjoz at January 29, 2005 03:16 PMNew was the right choice, the only choice.
Posted by: daniel at January 29, 2005 04:08 PMYEA!
Posted by: weenus at January 29, 2005 04:23 PMmake yoshi get a really expensive one that cooks rice, porridge, and can talk to the roomba if it gets really bored!
Posted by: stkyrice at January 29, 2005 10:18 PMI'm shocked that the previous one lasted 15 years. Seems the cheapo ones I buy all last about 10 months before shorting out.
But if you left the old one in the fridge that long, perhaps you don't use it as often as I do...
Posted by: Shannon at January 30, 2005 10:23 AMI hope you guys buy one that dings a bell if its left unwashed for 24 hours...
Posted by: vince at January 30, 2005 04:21 PMIt was not left in the fridge. It was sitting on in the corner, on our countertop for over a month!
Posted by: :: jozjozjoz :: at January 30, 2005 11:26 PM1) Get one with a stainless steel bowl. No, really, you want one that has a surface that is a) non-porous, and b) non-reactive to most anything you'd find (or grow) in a kitchen. That means stainless steel. Preferrably 18/10 grade.
2) You left it out for a month. I'd have your kitchen fumigated or something. *ralphs*
Posted by: Deltus at January 31, 2005 06:28 AMWhen I was a teenager (that would be the 1970's - you know, they did a television series about it) we actually had an automatic rice cooker. In Louisiana, we ate rice with practically every evening meal. And having a rice cooker was great, because it meant we didn't have to wait for a boil, throw everything in, wait again, turn down the heat, wait twenty-to-thirty minutes, and turn it off, etc., etc., etc. It saves using a burner on the stove, too.
I've never seen a rice cooker with anything besides an aluminum pot. Are they actually available in stainless steel?
woohoo! we should all come over for rice :)
Posted by: joe at January 29, 2005 03:28 PM