• dermanus@lemmy.ca
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    9 days ago

    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.

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        9 days ago

        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

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    9 days ago

    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.

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      9 days ago

      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.

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    10 days ago

    “I have a dream that my four little cups of rice […] will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their macronutrients.”

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    9 days ago

    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.

  • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 days ago

    You don’t need a fancy slow cooker, you can use an oven to slow cook multiple things at once, or really big things. Oven-slow-cooked turkey is great (if you like turkey, anyway).

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        10 days ago

        I’ve never had anything in the slow cooker end up crispy anyway, since there’s a lid that keeps the heat and thus steam in, so thats a non-problem.

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    9 days ago

    This may or may not work depending upon the grain size and processing of your brown rice as well as whether or not the rice cooker has some fuzzy logic built in that might detect it.

    They have “soft bran” short-grain brown rice here (the hull is pre-cut, I think?) and it works fine on the white rice setting. My normal brown rice would not cook through, though, probably.

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    10 days ago

    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.

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      9 days ago

      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.)

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      9 days ago

      Most of your white clothes are more like grey off white now if you’d care about that. I dont.

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      9 days ago

      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

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      9 days ago

      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.

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      10 days ago

      They make these sheets you throw in with your mixed color loads, I think called Color Catchers or something?

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      10 days ago

      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.

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      9 days ago

      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.

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      10 days ago

      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…

      • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        9 days ago

        When you learn about dyes (dies?) and pigments: 😤😤😤

        It’s not that hard, but 0.1cent per 35€ tshirt adds up I guess.

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          9 days ago

          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

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      9 days ago

      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.

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        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.

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          8 days ago

          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”.

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            8 days ago

            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.

      • TheBraveSirRobbin@lemmy.world
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        9 days ago

        I honestly meant this in regards to frozen pizza. I’d never do this with a fresh pizza. Also I’ve been meaning to get a pizza stone but haven’t lol.

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      10 days ago

      This does not apply to bread.

      If you’re just vibe-roasting some vegetables or a casserole or something, sure. But for bread and bread-based stuff like pizza, it does make a difference. Scientifically.