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GORDON 
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Posted on: Dec. 27 2010,20:08 |
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This stuff is the Tupperware Party of the new millennium.
Some PC agent comes to your house and has a little sales pitch/party for you and your friends, and then stuff gets ordered, and the person who hosted the party gets a free gift or 5 and a discount on orders based on how much money got spent at your party.
My wife never hosted a party before, but we needed a new set of pots and pans, so she threw one, and enough money was spent to save us a couple hundred on a nice new set.
ANYWAY... a lot of this "pampered chef" stuff seems designed to make cooking 5% easier, and 75% harder to clean up.
For example: Â when I used to make rice, I had a little sauce pan and a wooden spoon. Â I'd boil the rice until it was done. Â If I didn't turn the heat too high, it wouldn't boil over. Â However, that seemed to be too messy for my wife, so she bought me this PC microwave rice cooker and commanded me to use it. Â Put the rice in this pot, put on the first plastic cover, then the second lid, lock it down, then microwave for about 12 minutes. Â That is 3 items that need cleaning, a microwave that has a lot of condensed steam on the inside that needs to be wiped out, and a spoon or whatever you use to scoop the rice out of the pan. Â 4 items with nooks and crannies to be cleaned instead of one wooden spoon and one teflon sauce pan that cleans easy.
Example 2: the hamburger crumbler. Â Old method: use a wooden spoon for 90 seconds to crumble the hamburger in a teflon pan. Â PC method: this star-shaped device that crumbles the hamburger faster, but then has nooks and crannies to clean.
Example 3: measuring spoons. Â Old method: old measured spoon technology that hasn't changed in a few hundred years. Â PC method: these spoons with moving parts that cap off your scoop to ensure you measure out EXACTLY one tablespoon of flour, give or take a mole, and then require disassembly to clean. Â The wife still can't cook very well with exact proportions.
Example 4: several random utensils that I don't know what they are supposed to be used for.
Anyway, we saved a couple hundred dollars on a new set of good pots and pans, and as the cook of the house I appreciate that. Â I feel better now that I have vented. Â Vented like a rice cooker in a microwave.
Edited by GORDON on Dec. 27 2010,20:11
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Paul
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Posted on: Dec. 28 2010,06:03 |
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I use the Pampered Chef rice cooker.
I put a plate under it to catch boil-overs.
1) Put in equal parts rice & water.
2) Twist on lid.
3) Microwave 5 minutes (until it boils).
4) Remove from microwave and let stand a few minutes.
5) Fluff & eat (Step 5 also on the porn list)
For cleanup I stick everything in the dish washer.
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GORDON
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Posted on: Dec. 28 2010,07:11 |
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You have a different model than I. Mine has a clamp on each side.
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Malcolm
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Posted on: Dec. 28 2010,08:56 |
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My crap-ass store bought rice cooker doesn't boil over enough to the point where I need to put anything under it. What third-rate North Korean quality machines are y'all buying?
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unkbill
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Posted on: Dec. 28 2010,15:41 |
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Do to the wifes rice comsumption we have a large rice cooker. It rarely bowls over. But only does because the little woman is to lazy to use measuring devices.
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Paul
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Posted on: Dec. 28 2010,16:17 |
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[x] I have owned an electric rice cooker for years.
[ ] I have used an electric rice cooker.
I used to use my microwave rice cooker a lot. I'd toss in microwaved veggies and get a couple meals out of it.
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