Haven’t sorted laundry in like 20 years at least. If I get a brand new pair of jeans or something like that I’ll separate it for a load or two but that’s it.
brand new pair of jeans or something like that I’ll separate it for a load or two
Maybe grow some cojones instead?
I just blow my load in my jeans, if you let it build up then it has the same effect as starch. Keeps them nice and crisp.
Ok, time for me to go outside.
I kind of like my “new” blue towels.
TL;DR, tried to grow cojones but ended up with 4 dicks.
Cool, now you can quadcopter.
Modern dyes and detergents fixed this. It was a problem decades ago.
Idk. I have still had problems with white shirts going pink or baby blue. Everything else doesn’t matter.
It does still happen but the problem is much better
One line of detergent, one line of color safe bleach, cold cycle, extra rinse. Everyone in the pool together. All of my outer clothes (flannels, dress shirts, pants, polos) get air dried. Everything else is tumble dry low.
I don’t think I own anything white except my socks, and I dont give a shit about those.
Instructions unclear, I’m posting this from the ER.
I have that same rice cooker. Zojirushi. It’s pretty solid, so I’d bet whatever fancy crap it uses to tell if it’s properly cooked probably helped the way his stuff turned out
Yeah, that Zojirushi has enough computers in it to adjust to most user mistakes. And anyone spending the money on one would know that.
You know it’s a premium rice cooker when the alarm sound is a music jingle. My microwave wishes it were that sophisticated.
Had to replace the microwave recently after the last one crapped out. This new one also has a jingle. Why does every machine need a jingle now? The dryer has a jingle. It’s not even that fancy.
Specifically choose our microwave because it can be muted. No unnecessary beeping or jingle is so much better.
Most microwaves can be silenced. I figured out how to shut mine up but several hours later my roommate unmuted it, I guess some people like the obnoxious noises.
Are these all Japanese products? I find that the Japanese love a little jingle for some reason
i mean, i can distinguish between the different beeps on the different machines but maybe giving different machines different jingles helps people who can’t
You know it’s premium because it costs hundreds of dollars instead of $20…
Zojirushi makes decent stuff - at least the couple items I have from them have been working well for the time I’ve had them.
They make a variety of excellent table top cooking appliances. My wife is Japanese and recommended this rice cooker to me when we started dating. That same rice cooker is still going strong I purchased it in 2006.
I recently was curious about them and did a search to see if there was any newer model or upgrades… still the exact same model and almost the same price is considered one of the best models by multiple reviewers.
That thing is seriously built to last! My wife and I have now named the cooker “Zojirushi sama” as a reward for still making amazing rice 20 years later even after almost daily use.
We also have one of their auto nabe cookers which is going on 15 years old.
I think they sense the temperature of the metal, so after it plateaus at boiling point it knows when all the water is absorbed because the temperature starts rising again.
Unpopular opinion: the microwave popcorn button.
Let me introduce you to Technology Connections report on the matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Limpr1L8Pss
I thought I was the only one who’d watch this guy!
You’re not alone! I’ll gladly listen to him explain the refrigeration cycle again and again and again and how everything is just a worse heart pump.
I’m in the process of buying a new house. So I was looking at one last week, and the smoke detector just kept chirping.
And I was just about to say “Did you know there’s actually two types of these?”
And just as I was about to say that, I got sad in realizing that I’d then be obligated to elaborate, and now I’m spending 45 minutes talking about a topic that neither of us wants being discussed right now.
But it was in my head at that moment.
I subscribe! …but don’t usually watch
His recent solar / renewable one is worth a watch, especially the extended version…
That depends. Cheap bullshit microwaves just have a preloaded time and power level, but microwaves with humidity sensors inside will run based on that when you use the popcorn button. Sometimes there are other buttons that make use of that sensor too.
But yeah, you’re really best off throwing it on like 4 minutes and standing there waiting for the popping to trail off and then manually stop it, usually like 3 minutes in. Depends on your microwave wattage.
Technology Connections has a great video covering Rice Cookers.
I bought my first ever rice cooker today after seeing this thread and your comment and the video.
Important update: I just made rice while also watering my plants and the rice was perfect and warm. Why didn’t I get a rice cooker 20 years ago?
Preach. Love my $15 rice cooker, works fine
They’re both so much simpler and yet more complex than I had previously conceived them to be. Also, knowing how they work, there are a shit tone of things you can cook in a rice cooker that would turn out perfectly.
Like meth
Did you know that Go-Gurt is JUST yogurt??!!
woah, i went to school with her. she’s a very kind, very smart person
Hopefully she and her 15 year old child are doing well.
I think her 15-year-old child might’ve saw that post recently while browsing through Reddit (the r/CuratedTumblr subreddit) and realized that that’s his Mom.
No, that can’t be right…
…
Right?
Do you still talk to her?
nah, drifted apart in 2012
Do you still know her name? I’m very curious on where she has been since 2012
yes, and i know where she’s been up until 2015. i could go full stalker and find her and her husband (who is hilarious, i like him as much as her), but meh.
Wait, she’s married? If so, then I’m very happy for her and her spouse! I really hope they and their child are doing pretty well.
First Community reference I’ve spotted on Lemmy, props.
Truly, Streets ahead
Does it just mean “cool” or is it supposed to be like “miles ahead”?
If you have to ask, you’re streets behind 🤷
More like: Cool, cool cool cool.
It’s yogurt for when you’re on the go!!
I can hear those commercials as if they were yesterday.
Folding clothes. After realizing that I’ve spent years grabbing clothes out of the hamper and no one seemed to notice, I decided to buy a fancy wood hamper that looks like a dresser and put my clothes in it right after they come out the dryer.
Next step in the evolution is taking them directly from the dryer and throwing them on a freshly cleaned spot of the bedroom floor; bypass the closet and drawer system entirely. You don’t leave the house anyway. No one knows that your wrinkled shirt at 7:30am was wrinkled by your first meeting at 9:00am.
Our floordrobe is so big now it’s mutated into a beddrobe and now we sleep on the sofabed in the spare room
Everyone knows the rich only use the designated laundry chair. It keeps everything just clean enough.
Heck you can get a shirt dirty, put it on the chair and it’s good to enough for tomorrow.
You have a chair?
You must be king of the castle!
The shelf life is the way to live
You only have to wash one leg when you shower, as long as you switch each time.
Just make sure you have permission from the leg’s owner first or things can get complicated legally.
Rice and pasta can be cooked the same way. Add water and stuff to pot, then boil and drain.
I grew up thinking I didn’t like rice. It turns out I just didn’t like rice cooked like this. Do not drain rice. It ruins it. Cook it with just enough water for it to be absorbed by the rice. roughly 2:1
I’ve found that 2:1 is usually too much water for my rice cooker. 1,5:1 is the way to go for me, at least for basmati. Comes out (close to) perfect
i do almost exclusively jasmine (i can’t find basmati at the discount grocer i use and it’s close enough) and 1.5:1 is right for jasmine. add a T of fat (we like olive oil) and 1/2 t of salt per C of rice and you’ll get a great result. also, and this is the important bit, let it rest 15 minutes after it’s finished before you take the lid off and serve. it lets the liquid redistribute in the rice and gives a better texture.
i’ve been trying to figure out a good garlic rice, and so far i’ve just been adding a bulb’s worth of garlic cloves, sliced. it’s not garlicky enough. i have also tried sauteing the garlic in butter and using the butter for the fat, then adding the garlic cloves. it’s better, but i am lazier than that. I’ll figure it out one of these days. maybe a hint of acid might bring out the garlic? i dunno i’ma squeeze a drop of lemon in next time just to see.
That absolutly depends on the type and quality of the rice.
What’s this? A recipe for soggy rice?
It’s a recipe for extra White rice.
Can, doesn’t mean it should. Rice should be cooked in just enough water for it to be absorbed or boiled off. Many types of rice are packaged with added minerals and shouldn’t be washed (check your packaging, you loose this if you have to drain).
Even the cheapest rice cookers use clever physics to fully automate this process and make it come out perfect every time.
Have you tried not washing rice?
It turns into a gloopy mess.
depends on the rice, how much starch. Jasmine - no need to wash, Sushi - must wash
I would again suggest you check your particular packaging. It should say whether to wash or not.
Sushi rice is supposed to be very sticky, I don’t wash any rice where I live.Unless you are making sushi or risotto, why would anyone not cook Jasmine rice? Any other rice is less than ideal.
Basmati is pretty good too, but yeah it’s tough to beat jasmine rice…
Calrose all day.
there are so many different grains of rice why limit yourself to one. i mean i love jasmine too but basmati is great.
I almost never wash rice unless I’m doing it for korean dishes that use the water, and I don’t have that issue. I do use a cheap rice cooker, and it comes out fine.
Some rice is prewashed before the minerals are added
what countries still have fortified rice? it feels like a cold war thing idky
I mean salt is still iodized. Fun fact, adding iodine to salt is actually seen as one of the most cost effective public health measures ever done.
and leaves the salt bitter.
In an era of overprocessed foods engineered to be cheap and look good, adding back micronutrients wherever possible still makes sense I think.
It’s definitely done where I live.The US consumes plenty of enriched rice.
This has got to be the whitest conversation about cooking rice I’ve seen in a while.
It’s not that it won’t cook, it will just do it better on the right setting.
You can cook chicken dry on high and burn the shit out of it. It’s “cooked” but not great.
Butter/evoo, seasonings and low heat is much better, but both will keep you from starving.
I can make cookies in my car during hot summers.
You can cook chicken dry on high and burn the shit out of it. It’s “cooked” but not great.
Speak for yourself. I like when it’s cooked that way.
No judgement here.
Will it though? What exactly is it doing differently? Because to my knowledge the only thing that matters is using more water. Having more water inherently cooks it longer. It’s done when all the water is absorbed/evaporated. That’s why you can use basic rice cookers with nothing but an on button for both white and brown, just get the water ratio right.
I don’t know enough about rice, someone mentioned water qty is different. In this case it probably doesn’t matter, but I always put a little more water in case I don’t catch it in time and burn the bottom. I make mine in a pot on the stove.
Nothing really matters
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Everything I give you
All comes back to meSo close, no matter how far
Couldn’t be much more from the heart
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No, nothing else mattersIf the brown rice is parboiled, then yeah, you should be able to cook it on the white rice setting all the same. The difference between the white/brown rice settings is just time.
Never cared for what they say 🎵
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Separating whites and colored clothes.
If you wash on cold it doesn’t matter. Warm wash might matter if the colored fabrics are new, and depending on the dye process.
Washing colors with whites on hot, especially if the colors are new, is how you get dye bleed
It matters if you bleach your white clothes.
Yeah, there’s that. I never do, so I didn’t think of it.
I don’t even buy white clothes because they get dingy so fast and I’m kind of a messy eater anyway, so it’s all darks for me…
Plus I tried using bleach once a long time ago but it seemed to degrade my clothes pretty quickly.
Yeah, I don’t ever have enough white clothes to make a full load, so I don’t bother with bleach. I separate my clothes by drying requirements and fragility.
I just throw towels, bed sheets, blankets, pants, shirta and everything else at the washing machine at once and set it to heavy load and it works fine
I wish this was true… Many of my shirts with a little white (like a collar or stripe) but otherwise dark together with other dark clothes are now a weird greyish tone that do not look clean… Same with all my white towels that I didn’t care about that I washed with my other dark stuff like towels and socks.
Agreed, day to day you wouldnt notice the white changing but hold up a 6month old shirt next to a new one of the same type and its definately greyer.
Whites i always do on their own with a sprinkle of napisan with the washing powder. Courled and darks can be done together if the loads arent big enough to run two cycles. All loads i only ever wash cold, and half a scoop of powder max, the ‘reccomended’ amount is too much, especially if the load isnt completely full. I have never had an issue with smells, stains, dirty clothes with the reduced powder amount.
But i will never wash new dark clothes without giving them a couple rinses in a bucket of water first. Sometimes it takes ~8 buckets cycles of hand washing/rinsing to get the colour to stop running from jeans and dark items that first time.
