What one thing do you love about Voyager today?
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How it manages to seemlessly combine adventure, drama, comedy, and sci fi, and also makes you think about ethics and social issues.
^I've never heard of such a thing. My world is too small.
It's such a dumb thing to be excited about, YAY make cake in the rice cooker, the rice cooker which is right next to the oven!
I mean, if you didn't have an oven it might be a super good idea.
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I've never used my rice cooker to bake a cake. I did bake a cake once in my bread maker when they were all the rage. I can't remember how it turned out. The bread maker was best used to make jam. Strawberry and blueberry jam, yummo.
I've never used my rice cooker to bake a cake. I did bake a cake once in my bread maker when they were all the rage. I can't remember how it turned out. The bread maker was best used to make jam. Strawberry and blueberry jam, yummo.
That does sound useful. Someone gave me a breadmaker once and I never used it because a. it made tiny squat loaves and b. it was extremely specific with the recipes. I made a lot of bread myself from scratch and you could do pretty much anything with it, would bake it with pumpkin water, kidney bean water, more of this and less of that.. anyway if you tried to vary stuff in the breadmaker it couldn't hack it. It was always a disaster. I actually hated the thing. I eventually threw it out after trying to give it away for a while.
However I would totally have a go at jam in it. Though jam is dead easy to make on a stove. I saw marmalade recipes to make in a slow cooker last time I made marmalade but I was too scared after the rice cooker incident and stuck with stove top marmalade.
However I would totally have a go at jam in it. Though jam is dead easy to make on a stove. I saw marmalade recipes to make in a slow cooker last time I made marmalade but I was too scared after the rice cooker incident and stuck with stove top marmalade.
Microwave at the very least I hope.
Talking of which! My memory's a little fuzzy, but isn't there a very obvious microwave, which they pretend is some kind of alien safe, in "Time and Again"?
That's what I love about Voyager today.
That seems a little niffy. You'd better have the super check it to make sure you don't blow yourself to bits the next time you want a nice cigarillo.
I was thrown across the kitchen once trying to light a stove pilot. Scared the ever loving crap out of me and I had no eyebrows for weeks.
I do tend to make a lot of stuff by hand - our kitchen is relatively small and we don't have room for a lot of fun devices.
Devices are over rated. I remember this Italian woman in her 80's showing me a Target ad for a pasta cooker.. a PASTA COOKER. She was flabbergasted anyone would pay 59.95 for a device to cook pasta.
I thought the same when my gammy brought a bread maker.
Sure the freshly baked loaf tasted better, but it also took 8 hours(? i remember it was an over night thing) to make, and cost 6 dollars all up.
Sure the freshly baked loaf tasted better, but it also took 8 hours(? i remember it was an over night thing) to make, and cost 6 dollars all up.
Yes, and the thermostat seems to be going out, so will have to buy a new one soon. If it heats any longer than about 3 minutes, the digital display starts doing odd things. Last time, it did 3 fast beeps and reset itself to 73:89 minutes. Haven't had any fires or sparks yet.
Before the microwave, I was using a toaster oven. I'm always in the room when they're running, since it's a studio.
KimMH said:
The separate range top pilots are working, though I don't see well enough to cook on it anymore. I check it regularly. These days, it's pretty much a place where the cat takes her naps, right over the heat from the burner pilots.
I think it's the novelty. I'd been making my own from scratch for years at that point and one loaf made from scratch was 75 cents, 3 times as big, and tasted fantastic (as well as being totally tweakable any way I wanted it). Bread machine loaf was a third the size, cost way more and was meh in flavour and texture. But if you've never made bread yourself it's pretty cool to play around with a machine I suspect.
LOL. WHY WOULD ANYONE BUY THAT?
A 'pasta cooker' aka a... pot.
I don't cook often, but even I can handle noodles.
It was the novelty. I even thought about it before i bought it so i can't even claim it was an impluse buy. I was seduced by the thought of freshly baked bread and the wonderful smells that would result. I don't think i even made a dozen loaves before it became a jam maker and then i gave it to my aunt. I must ask her if she ever ended up using it.
Agreed there are way too many specialised appliances out there now. Who has the bench space?
I have just finished an entire winter and I only used my slow cooker once. I made a kickass chorizo and bean stew. But after that it just sat taking up what is basically the whole bench as the kitchen is shit until I finally put it away a month ago. It seems like with each passing year my repertoire of extremely great meals you can make in 10 minutes grows and I blank out the other stuff 
You're still on the bright and happy side of things.
Wait till you start excluding phone ordered food because the delivery boys keep getting lost.
Wait till you start excluding phone ordered food because the delivery boys keep getting lost.
Then it will be time to move.
"Getting lost" is code.
Porn is real.
Porn is real.
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