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Anonymous
I use microwave, waffle maker, blender, and electric tea kettle (several times a day). 
How about you? Thinking about buying vegetable steamer and/or rice cooker? Would you recommend it? |
Anonymous
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I don't feel the need for a free-standing vegetable steamer. I steam vegetables almost every night, and I just use a metal steamer basket that fits into one of my pots on my cooktop. Works great, very little clean up (rinse the basket or toss in the dishwasher; and the pot doesn't really get dirty since it's just boiling water, so a quick wipe with a soapy sponge and rinsing it out takes no time at all).
I would like a rice cooker b/c the rice comes out so much better in them, but we don't eat rice that often. I think some appliances do both (rice cooker and steamer) so in that case maybe it's worth it for you. I find my crockpot to be a much more efficient use of cabinet/counter space! I use it all the time. |
Anonymous
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We use our toaster oven and microwave every day.
We also use our rice cooker almost every day (and buy rice by the 25lb bag). You can start it in the morning and have rice ready when you come home from work at night! |
Anonymous
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coffee maker - single cup maker during the week, regular pot on weekends
rice cooker - 1-2x week cuisinart - 1-2x or more/week toaster (switched from a toaster oven) daily, kitchen aid - periodically but when I need it I need it. |
Anonymous
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coffee maker--daily
rice cooker--2-3x/week toaster--2-3x/week mini-cuisinart--weekly everything else (stand mixer, large cuisinart, blender)--at least monthly, but depends on the season. winter involves more baking, so the stand mixer gets more use in the winter. we make a ton of smoothies in the summer, so that gets used daily then. use pots and pans and gas range or oven daily |
Anonymous
| Op, you make waffles every day??? Can I come over sometime?? |
Anonymous
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Coffee maker-daily
Toaster- 2-3 times per week Kitchen Aid mixer- 4-5 times a month Kitchen Aid food processor- 2-3 times a week Stick blender- 1-2 times a month Microwave-daily |
Anonymous
Should I assume that one is a food processor and one is a stand mixer? |
Anonymous
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For those of you who use a rice cooker, what kind do you have? In mine, the rice always sticks and I don't think it's any better than boiling it on my stove.
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zumbamama
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rice cooker
waffle maker microwave teapot breadmaker my new favorite: coffee grinder |
Anonymous
weird. i've never had this problem, but i've always used a japanese-made one (not the american $20 kind you get at target)... and it's always been amazingly nonstick. cooking rice on the stove is easy enough but annoying because you really have to watch it, and it often bubbles over if the heat isn't turned down at the right second. so i love my rice cooker, and love the fact that it automatically goes to its "warming" setting when it's done. |
Anonymous
Ours is a Zojirushi. I think the insert is non stick and we've never had a problem. |
Anonymous
I have this one too and it is very good. I looked into buying one for my mother and it is very expensive (i got mine as a gift). I've heard from people that use rice cookers all the time (like daily) that even cheap ones are fine - they just look ugly! I'd buy a $30 one first and see if you use it before investing in a $150 one. |
Anonymous
I grew up eating rice daily (Korean family), so I definitely have my biases towards rice cookers! I think that if you are going to be or would like to eat rice at least 3x/week, I would invest in a "fuzzy logic" rice cooker (try to find one still made in Japan--even Zojirushi now has rice cookers made in China). We use a 3.5 cup-size Zojirushi, but we are a small family with small appetites and little space. I think that the 5 cup ones are ideal for most families. These cook rice (white, brown, jasmine) perfectly, keep rice warm without drying them out, and can be timed so that the rice is ready when you come home from work. The other ones, the $30 ones, are going to yield better results than the stove top, but they are messy because they splatter a bit. If you cook rice maybe once a week, I think that the $30 ones are fine. If you cook rice less often than that, I would just stick to the stove top. |
Anonymous
| Ha. I use the microwave every day...to heat up the 90-second rice! Best invention ever! We like it. |