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: when I used to make rice, I had a little sauce pan and a wooden spoon. I'd boil the rice until it was done. If I didn't turn the heat too high, it wouldn't boil over. 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. 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. 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. 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. Old method: use a wooden spoon for 90 seconds to crumble the hamburger in a teflon pan. PC method: this star-shaped device that crumbles the hamburger faster, but then has nooks and crannies to clean.
Example 3: measuring spoons. Old method: old measured spoon technology that hasn't changed in a few hundred years. 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. 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. I feel better now that I have vented. Vented like a rice cooker in a microwave.
Edited By GORDON on 1293509486
"Pampered Chef" stuff.
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.
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.
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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