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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  IDK about different settings on the cooker having an effect (mine is super simple and has only two settings: on and off) but if I tried making brown rice with the ssme ratio of water as white, I would end up with uncooked rice.

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  • starik@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They turn off when they get above 100C, when all the water is absorbed/evaporated.

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    • M137@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Not sure what your point is here, but as per the other replies to this comment that just doesn’t work well for all different kinds of rice. So my completely uninformed thoughts right now are that brown rice needs a longer time with hot water to get to the point we consider cooked. The way a rice cooker works, if they all do like you’ve said, makes the water evaporate too quickly so it it doesn’t get enough time to get into the core of the rice kernels of some kinds. And I’m sure it’s too much for other kinds where you end up with overcooked, too sticky or even like porridge, rice.

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  • JoseALerma@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ethan Chlebowski did a video on rice in youtu.be/IjjdAheuNKs where he cooks rice sous vide to determine water ratios and cook times. There are more details in the companion blog post at cookwell.com/…/rice-cooking-fundamentals-4-method…

    For brown rice in an on/off rice cooker, try doing 1:1 + 0.5 cups of water for evaporation.

    TL;DR/W: When cooking different types of rice sous vide, they all absorb water in a 1:1 ratio. The only difference is how long it took to cook through (white long grain is less than brown or wild, for example).

    So, the deciding factor is how much the cooking method evaporates water in that time. Sous vide can’t evaporate water, so it’s still 1:1 but other methods need more water. Rice cookers are pretty consistent, so it’s easier to calculate the additional water for evaporation. For white rice, it’s about 0.25 cups for evaporation while brown rice needs about 0.5 cups for evaporation because it cooks longer.

    There are more details in the video/blog post about other methods, like boiling rice similar to pasta

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    • chippydingo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This is really interesting regarding the extra water and I suppose it makes sense with the more basic models that have a vent hole. I have been using an Instant Pot for a bunch of years now and have a custom pressure cooking setting that gives me fluffy and perfect brown rice using water at a 1:1 ratio. I believe the cook time must be slightly longer than the white rice setting(default button). 21 mins and about 10 mins to cooldown before venting gets perfect results 100% of the time.
      I have been tempted to invest in a more traditional cooker like a Zojirushi thanks in large part to “Uncle Roger” but paid $45 for the Instant Pot and I don’t really use it for anything else.

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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is what I was thinking. Like I need at least 20% more water for brown rice.

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  • Echolynx@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I use the same ratio, 1:1, but for brown rice I start it with boiled water.

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• btsax@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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  • couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    brand new pair of jeans or something like that I’ll separate it for a load or two

    Maybe grow some cojones instead?

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    • musubibreakfast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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.

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    • Town@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I kind of like my “new” blue towels.

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    • frog_brawler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      TL;DR, tried to grow cojones but ended up with 4 dicks.

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Modern dyes and detergents fixed this. It was a problem decades ago.

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    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Idk. I have still had problems with white shirts going pink or baby blue. Everything else doesn’t matter.

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  • FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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.

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    • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Instructions unclear, I’m posting this from the ER.

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• cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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

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  • treesapx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah, that Zojirushi has enough computers in it to adjust to most user mistakes. And anyone spending the money on one would know that.

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    • Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      How much money and technology is required to cook fucking rice?

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  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    All any rice cooker does is simmer the water till it has all evaporated. They don’t have a different setting for white or brown rice. Brown rice needs more water to cook. The picture is just a lie.

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    • starik@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The ones with multiple settings cook the brown rice at a lower temperature. Combined with the higher water:rice ratio, this makes for a much longer cook time for brown rice.

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  • null@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You know it’s a premium rice cooker when the alarm sound is a music jingle. My microwave wishes it were that sophisticated.

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    • cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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.

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    • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You know it’s premium because it costs hundreds of dollars instead of $20…

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Zojirushi makes decent stuff - at least the couple items I have from them have been working well for the time I’ve had them.

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    • hkspowers@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They make a variety of excellent table top cooking appliances. My wife is Japanese and recommended me this rice cooker 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 multipel 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.

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  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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.

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• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Every microwave I’ve ever had has lots of buttons for all sorts of things, but I have no idea what they do. All I’ve ever done is put stuff in and run it at full blast.

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  • vinyl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    My friend usually cooked stuff in the microwave at lower power with longer times and had better results but I just dont care enough

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    • hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I got a new fancy inverter microwave, and it’s an absolute game changer, for reheating.

      Running a traditional microwave, lower power modes are literally just lower duty cycles. Very coarse, too.

      30% power is something like “turn on high power for 3 seconds, turn off power for 7 seconds, repeat”

      Which means your good gets blasted at 1200w for 3 seconds, and then is given time to rest for 7 seconds, before starting over again.

      This is bad for things like fats and oils in food, which tends to heat up REALLY fast, and start splattering/burning the parts of the food they’re in.

      It works but could be better, smoother.

      Enter the inverter microwave. It can adjust the actual power output of the magnetron itself. So when you tell it 30% power, it will run the whole 10 seconds without cycling on and off, but it’s literally only putting out 30% of the normal full power.

      This is much more gentle on delicate foods.

      Caveat, at powers below 30% it starts to duty cycle again, I imagine because the magnetron can only operate so low before it can’t run normally.

      But still, pulsing a 30% powered magnetron on and off is a lot more gentle than a 100% powered one.

      This has made reheating leftovers much better.

      Instead of blasting it at full power, then stirring/mixing the food, and blasting it again.

      I just set it at 10 or 20%, take a quick shower, and come out to perfectly evenly reheated food. Takes 10 or 20 minutes instead of 5, but, way less work, and much better results. Win win.

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    • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Double time, half power.

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    • Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You could just not put the food in the middle of the turntable and you would get equally good results.

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  • CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I don’t even know what blast my microwave is at. I just put stuff in it, run for 45 seconds, if it’s not hot when it comes out = another 45 seconds. Repeat until food

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Pop tarts in 4 seconds.

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  • Randelung@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Same with my washing machine. Delicates, wool, underwear, shirts, it’s all 1:10h and 40°C by default.

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  • Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Mine has a reheat button that I use on anything that doesn’t have explicit instructions with it. It heats at a lower power and I’m pretty sure has a censor (the time only starts for the last 30 seconds).

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It blurs out the sausages?

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  • FourThirteen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    youtu.be/Limpr1L8Pss

    Obligatory technology connections microwave related video

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• smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Unpopular opinion: the microwave popcorn button.

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  • orhtej2@eviltoast.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Let me introduce you to Technology Connections report on the matter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Limpr1L8Pss

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I thought I was the only one who’d watch this guy!

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    • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Can I please get a tldw? I love the idea of technology connections. But who has the time?

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  • MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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.

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  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It works well, so long as the size is right.

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    • mech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      How big should the button be?

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• Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Technology Connections has a great video covering Rice Cookers.

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I bought my first ever rice cooker today after seeing this thread and your comment and the video.

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    • hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Preach. Love my $15 rice cooker, works fine

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  • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Like meth

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• AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Did you know that Go-Gurt us JUST yogurt??!!

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  • irelephant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      woah, i went to school with her.

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  • Erdalion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    First Community reference I’ve spotted on Lemmy, props.

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    • Academic_Bumblebee@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Truly, Streets ahead

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  • Decoy321@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s yogurt for when you’re on the go!!

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• FrChazzz@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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  • frog_brawler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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.

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    • blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Our floordrobe is so big now it’s mutated into a beddrobe and now we sleep on the sofabed in the spare room

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    • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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.

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  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The shelf life is the way to live

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• Juqu@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Rice and pasta can be cooked the same way.

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  • OR3X@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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

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    • v4ld1z@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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

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    • BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Skill issue. If you pull the rice early enough and let it steam itself dry, it comes out as good or better than letting the rice just absorb the liquid.

      It’s also way easier to make a huge batch of rice this way.

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    • captcha_incorrect@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That absolutly depends on the type and quality of the rice.

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  • filcuk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Have you tried not washing rice?

      It turns into a gloopy mess.

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    • Alberat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      what countries still have fortified rice? it feels like a cold war thing idky

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  • UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What’s this? A recipe for soggy rice?

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    • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s a recipe for extra White rice.

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• inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This has got to be the whitest conversation about cooking rice I’ve seen in a while.

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• AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You only have to wash one leg when you shower, as long as you switch each time.

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• thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s not that it won’t cook it’s 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.

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• MithranArkanere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Nothing really matters
  Love is all we need
  Everything I give you
  All comes back to me

  So close, no matter how far
  Couldn’t be much more from the heart
  Forever trusting who we are
  No, nothing else matters

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Never cared for what they say

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• GreenDust@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If 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.

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• thorhop@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Never care for what they say

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• samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Image

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• FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You don’t need a paper towel over raviolis when you microwave them either

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• irelephant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Separating whites and colored clothes.

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• Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Eating that nonsense only prolongs the “I shit in my pants” years.

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• crazycraw@crazypeople.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  anyone can seeeeee

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• neuromorph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  was your brown rice parboiled? or raw?

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• DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  So it DOESN’T matter if nothing matters

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• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  ♪Anyone can seeee…

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• ProIsh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  A lot my friend, a lot.

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