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I ordered a cake for my birthday that said Happy 29th. I’m 40, they didn’t even check my ID or anything.
Bro is just doing shit
Happy belated 29th birthday! What, I’m not checkin your ID, either
Hmm. You didn’t mention how belated. This all checks out.
It’s an older cake, but it checks out.
I order the club sandwich all the time and I’m not even a member, man.
Mitch Hedberg
“I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn’t have one. So I got a cake.” - Mitch Hedberg
How do you feel about frilly toothpicks?
I’m for em!
The maniacs will sell you the cake even if it’s nowhere near close to your birthday.
I hope you at least got one that comes with little tractors on top.
Also that it wasn’t even your actual birthday.
I stopped buying birthday cakes when I realised most well-known places don’t really make them to be eaten but to look good in pictures and then be splattered onto faces. They were not tasty.
I’m sorry. Where I’m from birthday cakes are still made for eating.
Wow so no inv?
I’ve literally never had an issue not separating laundry. Years of mixed loads never any colours bled, I thought the whole thing was a myth.
Last week I washed a red dress of my wife’s with whites, and all my shirts came out pink like a sitcom. It’s real people.
Never trust a new item, for sure. Jeans especially.
My wife gets these dresses from a hippie store that look beautiful but are so bad about bleeding dye in the wash. I’d never had it happen before then, but I also used to wash on cool before we had kids.
Just don’t buy red clothes
Crip detected
Yeah I had a great city wok logo shirt that I loved but it was literally the only red thing I owned and I didn’t feel like giving it it’s own wash so it got stored away.
Wash on cold. It mostly solves this issue.
You can use vinegar to set dyes.
Red dye is particularly hard to set unless the Dyer knows and cares to do it
The dumb shit you learn when you date someone who does historically accurate recreation events…
Were there also historically accurate procreation events?
Only half way, they didn’t seem to want to deliver babies like in the very olden times, but making the babies definately happened in character from time to time
When you learn about dyes (dies?) and pigments: 😤😤😤
It’s not that hard, but 0.1cent per 35€ tshirt adds up I guess.
I wash on cold (or warm) and stopped separating laundry by colour a while ago and now separate it by purpose. Like a load of my clothes, a load of my daughter’s clothes (that she loads and unloads herself, not raising someone that gets confused when she needs to clean her clothes when she moves out), towels get their own load (with added bleach, colourful ones just fade over time), same with bedsheets (no bleach here though).
If I remember, I’ll do new colourful clothes separately on their first wash with the assumption that most of the dye that is going to come out will come out during the first wash.
I went the other way. Never separated for ages, then I got some nice wool socks for work. I don’t care about colors running, but I do want to minimize wear on my delicate clothes, and need to use more expensive detergent for the wool. So now I do my whites on a more delicate cycle. And I’m suddenly finding my flimsy cheap-ass home socks and boxers that used to disintegrate in no time are lasting waayyyyy longer.
Another thing you can do is swap dryer sheets for felted wool balls. I’ve also added tennis balls. Helps dry them faster (I think because the balls create pockets of air for the moisture to get into as they tumble, and the wool seems to play a similar role as the sheets electrically, not sure if the tennis balls do the same or are neutral in that regard).
Apparently dryer sheets are rough on clothes. Though tbh I don’t know whether the increased mechanical damage from the tennis balls are easier on it than the chemical damage from the sheets. And I’ve never had boxers or socks disintegrate from the laundry, mine have failed more from wear and tear from use (with dryer sheet or without). So this might be more of an experiment recommendation than a “this will work better”.
I have never used any dryer sheets etc, and have tried to move away from the dryer entirely. The dryer itself is the biggest avoidable source of wear and tear, heat and unnecessary mechanical agitation. If I am early enough in doing my laundry on Saturday I hang it up, I only use the dryer now if I was late and need them dried before work on Monday.
Most of your white clothes are more like grey off white now if you’d care about that. I dont.
If you wash whites with black & colored items they become grey. perhaps generally unnoticeable but it’s one of those details that makes people look really well put together.
Was that red dress washed before? I always wash new clothes before the first wear, then just separate lights and darks in general. (Disclaimer: I own literally zero white clothes, so even the light ones are already pastel colours.)
They make these sheets you throw in with your mixed color loads, I think called Color Catchers or something?
Dude I had also been doing that for years and I just had a hoodie bleed onto all my clothes. Idk wtf
It really is just very red things and white things you can’t mix.
I always sort mine by white, black, everything else. The whites can be bleached a bit to give 'em pop. The blacks don’t get fuzzies from the colors. After washing I pull the stuff that shouldn’t be dried, like hats, bras and shoes, and pull the stuff that’s spun down to barely damp, hang that stuff.
Shoes??
They’re these things you wear on your lower extremities for protection, comfort, warmth or fashion.
They even provide more than one of those benefits much of the time!
But that’s not important right now…
Holy shit that sounds awesome. Can I buy them anywhere or do I have to make these things myself?
You can buy them at many, but not all, places.
You COULD make them yourself too, but that would require years of training and expensive special equipment and making good ones would STILL be difficult and time consuming, so prolly a better idea to just buy or steal some for now 🤷🏻
Too much wear and tear. They weren’t meant to be dried in a tumbler.
I guess my question is what are they doing in the wash to begin with. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before
Huh. We wash tennis shoes all the time, particularly stuff we found for resale. Not like my wife is throwing her heels in there! Or I might stop through a swamp in my combat boots, that’s usually good for a wash.
I saw quite a few posts about it on hiking/sports subreddits in the olden days, it’s used for removing odour from sports shoes. I even tried it myself - depends on the shoe ofc, but like 30°C and lowest/no spin was completely fine. Pre-wipe the mud off, and add some worn old towels for padding, so it’s not just two shoes clanging around in the empty machine.
same! i washed some red pants that i bought at an international clothes market and now i have a bunch of pink clothes!! i consider it an upgrade
I used to do that too until I had to use shirts to work. White shirts lose that sheen and bright white so quickly if you mix them.
Happened to me once, too.
Fine? Sure. But the proper setting, especially on a higher end rice cooker, will result in better rice.
I had to put all my stuff in storage then move across the country recently. I did not bring my cuckoo rice cooker with me, and damn I didn’t realize how spoilled I’ve gotten. The rice I’m cooking in a cheap one just isn’t as good. I think it is over-cooking the rice, but it’s actually hard to dial in
this reminds me of how my friend recently used our entire allotment of coffee grounds to dial in the coffee maker at the place we were staying
ten probably hungover people the morning after a wedding, and this guy used all the grounds to
makeend up with 2/3 of a pot of coffee, then dipped before anyone else but me woke uplove the guy, but that was not what I wanted to enter the kitchen to see
Wait, what do you mean “dial in”? I’m unfamiliar with this term in the context of coffee makers. Do they need to be calibrated?
Like, did he make a batch, taste it, say “too weak,” toss it, then make another, taste, “too strong,” toss, and so on until he gets one that’s “just right”?
If so, what an asshole.
Or did he just dump an entire can of grounds in the hopper, brew a 2/3 pot, then dump the resulting motor oil in a travel mug before dipping out?
If so, still, what an ass.
the first is exactly what he did lmao
I brought enough coffee for like half a dozen pots
Not only is that selfish, it’s also kinda stupid.
Like did he really need to pour it out because it didn’t suit him? If anything he could have moved it to a different container so that other people could still have some.
But also it’s like… if you don’t know the right ratio it’s not hard to ask. If there’s a scooper it’s usually like one scoop per two cups of water. Getting the precision down to ± three decimal places isn’t exactly necessary.
But whatever. I digress…
Coffee people are weird
Yes, we are the monolith known as coffee people and we have no variation of personal opinion, methodology, or taste 🙄
Ah yes and then the next bag is at a different level of roast and freshness and must be re-dialed in again
I’ve heard great things about the Cuckoos, my little Zojirushi is perfect though.
Oooh damn, I thought cuckoo was an adjective but it’s a brand name.
https://cuckooamerica.com/collections/rice-cookers
Damn you people are wealthy or just really really love your rice.
I bought my Zorirushi at Goodwill for $7.99.
And yes, I love my rice.
Yeah, check Goodwills and estate sales. Old people like buying expensive nice shit, so you can pay pennies on the dollar for good stuff at Estate Sales.
Spend a couple hundred dollars once and never have to buy a rice cooker again, and have perfect rice every time. The total cost of my machine up to now is probably a couple pennies per batch of rice made (if that). They can also do more than just rice, I regularly steam veggies and even cook meat while my rice cooks.
Some things are worth splurging on. Having said that, $500+ for a rice cooker is just too much. 😅
It always comes down to boot theory.
I’m of the opinion that if you have to cook your rice in a $600 machine, you like your machine more than you like rice
I can like both equally. My Zojirushi sings a lovely little song when it finishes cooking the rice, how could not love it.
What about a $200 machine? I see both Cuckoo and Zojirushi offers those too. I think I’m going to see what my local Hmart has the next time I go in there.
An instant pot does perfectly good rice too. Though it takes a bit of trial to get then ratios right.
That’s the advantage of high quality rice cookers, they can adapt if you get the ratios wrong. I’ve definitely been too drunk and added an extra 1/4 cup of water, but it does its best and still turns out okay.
Yeah, I get that. Shelf space is very limited though. :/
And I recognize that Zojirushi pot, so it definitely can make good rice.
I own a rice cooker. I admit that it makes better rice more consistently. But I still use a pot on the stove most of the time because I can get it done quicker, but at the expense of it sometimes being mushy.
Better how
If you put in less water than the rice needs, it will result in a chewier texture, like undercooked pasta. Too much water, and it will cook down too much, become gluey and mushy. Perfectly cooked rice is incredible, and I didn’t realize how good plain rice could be til I was an adult and had it prepared correctly.
It’s like coffee. There are troglodytes out there who will tell you instant is just as good as anything else.
I learned that if you make freshly ground coffee in an aeropress you can actually enjoy just drinking it black without feeling line you’re eating charcoal. I couldn’t fathom how people could drink it black before.
You can put cinnamon rolls in a waffle maker to make instant cinnamon roll waffles.
^ A modern day Prometheus right here.
This is BEYOND SCIENCE
Just don’t try it at the San Rafael Marriott
Proof the Nobel prizes in science are fixed.
Might have to try this…
You can put a bunch of pancake batter in a rice cooker to make a big ass crazy pancake. I’ve only done it once, but it was like 2 inches thick, cooked perfectly all the way through, and super delicious.
That must have been some very al dente rice. When cooked in a pan brown rice needs more than twice the cooking time than white.
It’s probably not as good as it possibly could be, but in a automatic rice cooker the timing isn’t manually set, it just cooks until all the water is absorbed / boiled off. So, cooking brown rice on the white rice setting would still take way longer and probably be fine.
You can wash sheets on the towel setting.
People use those settings? It all goes through the heavy soiled gauntlet for me
Maybe others don’t heavily soil their sheets
Live a little
This made my day
You don’t have a peeing section in your bed?
Of course not, I pee in my wellies in the closet like a civilised person!
No, you misunderstand: They’re washing by passing their stuff through gauntlets.
Ah, that makes so much sense now!
To be clear though, the arcade machines or the gloves?
The arcade machines are superior because they can handle four at a time!
A dirty gauntlet at that. Not sure how that helps for laundry, but everyone has their own process.
Like gauntlets without fingertips? Driving gauntlets?
well, if you have kids…
Having children makes you shit the bed‽ 😲 I don’t think I want any of those then.
that is probably making your clothes age out faster than they need to (and takes longer and uses more power/water).
I’m mostly riffing on the mr lovestein comic, I don’t actually do that
I don’t do that either.
Because I look at that written before buying and then don’t buy it.
I wash clothes when the hamper is full, about once every two weeks. Everything together (except whites) longest wash, hot water.
Whatever comes out the other side goes back in the closet for the next round.
People make a big deal about buying clothes, washing clothes, folding clothes, organizing closets, matching clothes, shoes, belts, accessories, brands, who wears what when, blah, blah, blah.
Weather and society permitting, I wouldn’t even wear clothes. Fuck clothes.
Same but I wash the blacks on their own so they don’t get fizzes from the colors. My blacks are black and my whites are white.
For EU folks: the Eco setting actually cleans the most thoughly
I assume it was supposed to be “thoroughly” but I like “thoughly”, it should be a word.
Oh god not another one of those tough thorough thought ones xD
I use the bulky setting for sheets, blankets, and towels (probably similar to towel setting) not because it washes differently, it doesn’t, but because it has different thresholds to consider the load balanced during spin, and spins it to different speeds. I want my washer to last, so I use it properly with big heavy stuff.
I also use the sanitary setting when I wash underpants and post-bidet towels, but that’s because it superheats the water. Everything else gets washed on tap cold, regular cycle.
Yeah but then your sheets will be extra absorbent and you’ll get dry skin.
Look at the millionaire that has a towel setting.
Most of the brown rice you buy in grocery stores today is actually parboiled. Parboiled rice cooks with less water and in about the same amount of time as white rice. If you want real, genuine brown rice, you have to read the directions on the back. If it cooks in less than 30 minutes or 35 minutes, it’s not really brown rice. It’s parboiled. If the ratio of water to rice is less than two to one, then it’s also parboiled.
Parboiled brown rice is still “real, genuine brown rice”. It’s just been parboiled. It’s not fake rice somehow.
What person that likes rice actually wants parboiled rice?
Shit - me! I rarely eat rice so get the Trader Joe’s frozen stuff.
Frozen rice?
Yeah, I said it. Usually get the Jasmin rice but this gives you the idea:
https://www.traderjoes.com/home/products/pdp/organic-basmati-rice-082778
I was turned on to the Jasmin rice by a Chinese person.
edit- got the basmati by mistake one time. it was good.
Btw is it just me or parboiled rice tastes much worse than regular rice? Granted I’ve been avoiding it like the plague in the last two decades, but I have some bad memories of how flavourless and weird-textured it was.
(And since I learned the trick of cooking rice in salty, olive-oily water that I wait to boil away/absorb, that’s all I do, the end result tastes amazing compared those sad plastic bags of rice we cooked in my childhood.)
Agreed. Parboiled brown rice does not taste like brown rice at all.
Looks like a neuro fuzzy. That thing will make decent rice even if you try to screw it up. Brown rice does take substantially longer to cook properly - your rice maker is likely figuring that out and picking up the slack.
The Zojirushi are pretty damn magic.
I have no idea what is in that image but it looks nothing like the brown rice I have here in Vietnam.
I have no idea what all those buttons on a microwave are for. I just stick it in the box, and blast it in 30 second increments.
Lol.
Going through a Red Light (after a complete stop) at 3am in a desolate area when you are the only car on the road.
Also depends on the type of Brown Rice. We have one now, that cooks the same as white, but I bought one before that had a super thick hard casing and even after an hour of boiling it was still crunchy
Going through a Red Light (after a complete stop) at 3am in a desolate area when you are the only car on the road.m
There will always be a cop watching that intersection. Do so at your own peril. I’d end up shot.
Or even just a red light cam.
Not in my city. Running a red light is scarily common here. I once saw a pickup truck blow through 3 lights consecutively.
Do you live in Oakland California?
Nope. Somewhere much sadder.
Going through a Red Light (after a complete stop) at 3am in a desolate area when you are the only car on the road.
Definitely look both ways and be cautious. Anyone who has seen The Mexican knows what I mean.
I will roll the windows down, because in a desolate area you are going to hear cars.
Unless they’re travelling faster than the speed of sound.
Fair point
I’ve been in this exact 3am situation. Good thing I didn’t have time to actually make it into the intersection, because I would have absolutely been destroyed by the semi that came out of fucking nowhere going 20 mph over the limit.
Thus why I said after a full stop. Nobody should be blasting through a red. I roll down the windows, because you can hear cars coming when you are out in the middle of nowhere.
What i dont get is how sushi and white rice is nearly identical.
My machine at home also does this. There is a minor difference in height indication but so narrow you can get the water to the top of one line and the bottom if the other line.
Rice vinegar needs somewhere to fit in the rice
Rice vinegar is only added after the rice is cooked. The indication is to what level water should be added to coock it with.
Rice cookers use a thermocouple to detect when all the water has been absorbed, not a timer. That’s why it doesn’t really matter that much which setting you use.
It will not burn anything, but it just may be in a different consistence than you like
I just chuck rice in the microwave. Comes out fine tbh
You just chug in the grains? Or inside a bowl water?
I dont see how either would work.
Rice in a big bowl Cover (plus a centimetre or so) with hot water Cook for like ten minutes ish 🍚, yum
More reliable than stovetop (doesn’t burn). Dont need to buy extra rice cooking device
That looks like a higher end zujirushi rice cooker which is probably why it came oot fine even with the wrong setting.
I need a better ricecooker.
I just have an Aroma one, and while it does a fantastic job of cooking white and brown rice, its a PITA to clean up to the point I hate even having rice now.
I just stopped caring and enjoy my rice crust on the top.
Serious answer, I got a $100 one that’s not hard to clean from Amazon, same brand. Just one piece, no weird top part you have to separate. The one before that though I just enjoyed my rice crust.
Someone correct me, but for rice alone, the cheapest rice cooker will do the job just as well as a Ninja or some shit like that, and may be easier to clean if it has just a lid compared to 5 different parts.
If you dont trust those, the Japanese style egg-shaped ones are still affordable and just work.I cook mine in a small Instant Pot pressure cooker. Doesn’t cook any faster - well it does but it uses up all time gained in building up pressure - but does a great job. It does, however, use one half as much water.
Best thing, it’s one less specialized appliance. That Instant Pot gets lots of use. Makes awesome yoghurt too.
I have an aroma one and cleaning is so easy rice is all I want to eat now, I wonder why the disparity. Do you know something I don’t?
maybe you have a different model.
Mines a pain in the ass to clean because the removable parts arent dishwasher safe (the untreated whatever the fuck metal the two removable pieces are made of oxidizes like crazy if you do put it in there, and then everything it touches turns black until you take steel wool and spend 20 minutes scrubbing off all the oxide… a mistake you only make once), and theres an absolute metric fuckton of crevasses and niches on the base that have to be cleaned with toothpicks and chopsticks wrapped in paper towel.
It does a fantastic job cooking rice. The tedium of cleaning it is just extreme and not something i need in my life.
i dont want more features. I dont a fancy name brand. I dont want any gizmos or gadgets. I just want a rice cooker that makes good rice, and isnt a misery to clean. -
