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In response to "I'm loving how threatened you all are by this very simple and extremely common appliance -- nm" by con_carne

Oh...you misunderstand. Threatened indicates fear. When the truest answer is bewildered by why something like this is thought to be more valueable

Posted by Will Hunting (aka JoeMetz) Jan 14 '11, 16:39

than it's sole purpose.

I have a pot. I can cook rice in that pot. See, I'm utilitarian.

I'm not pissing myself in fear that a rice cooker exists.

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It was the "juvenile" that mystified me. -- nm - mara Jan 14, 16:50
TO be fair, I'm sure most of us here do own an appliance whose sole purpose is to toast bread. do 3 billion - loosilu Jan 14, 16:40 22
- Mine does bagels too, and POP TARTS! -- nm - Bacon Jan 14, 16:42
- But then, I don't have another appliance or kitchen element that would do 98% of the job of toasting bread. -- nm - Reagen Jan 14, 16:41 4
  - the oven does work. -- nm - loosilu Jan 14, 16:42
  - Exactly, the utility of a toaster hasn't be matched by hot water and a pot. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 14, 16:42 2
    - but you can eat bread perfectly well without toasting it. you can't eat rice without cooking it. -- nm - loosilu Jan 14, 16:44 1
      - Gretchen, stop trying to make "toaster" happen. -- nm - TFox Jan 14, 16:45
- but what can your toaster do that my oven can't? -- nm - mafic Jan 14, 16:41 15
  - be thrown into a bathtub to electrocute someone -- nm - peglegpete Jan 14, 16:43 4
    - HEe -- nm - con_carne Jan 14, 16:45
    - much like making toast, it'd just take a bit more work. -- nm - mafic Jan 14, 16:44 2
      - Hair dryers will work. -- nm - the liioulu with those hershey kiss flag things Jan 14, 16:45 1
        
        you mean a shrink wrap gun? :)))) -- nm - peglegpete Jan 14, 16:54
  - ever tried toasting bread in an oven? It takes a long time and a shitload of energy. -- nm - loosilu Jan 14, 16:42 9
    - and your odds of burning it are high -- nm - Bacon Jan 14, 16:43 7
      - the rice cooker is to rice as the toaster is to toast. it's semi-automated, simple, and makes a predictably better product. -- nm - mafic Jan 14, 16:45 6
        
        Yup. - musubi Jan 14, 16:55
        
        and takes much more time to clean. I will keep using the pot until someone invents that thing on Star Trek that makes food -- nm - Bacon Jan 14, 16:47 4
        
        I always burn rice in a pot, so that's harder to clean. If I ate rice a lot, I would get a rice cooker. - loosilu Jan 14, 16:48 3
        
        and even so, since those ancient disasters, you have learned from Alton Brown how to cook rice :) -- nm - peglegpete Jan 14, 16:56 1
        
        I don't think I've made rice in a decade. -- nm - loosilu Jan 14, 16:59
        
        you people are making my points for me about energy, cleaning, and only buying only if you feel you need -- nm - zork Jan 14, 16:52
    - And the bread either gets burnt or dry and not toasted. -- nm - the liioulu with those hershey kiss flag things Jan 14, 16:43

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