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The Rice Cooker: Perfect Since 1955

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Good article in The Atlantic

 

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In January, Timothy Wu’s electric rice cooker started ailing. His Zojirushi NS-ZCC10—a white, shoebox-size machine that plays a cheerful jingle when its contents have been steamed to fluffy excellence—wasn’t keeping rice warm for as long as it used to. Following a quarter century of almost daily service, the machine was so loved that his two young daughters (one of whom had years ago dubbed herself “rice monster”) requested a funeral. A few nights after the rice cooker’s demise, the family gathered around the machine, lit candles, and made speeches about what it had done for them.

 

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If you cut-and-paste the title of the article into Google News, and then click the article, sometimes you'll sneak on by that paywall...

So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money. But when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness."

So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.

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I'll throw a few more articles into the mix, as I just read them today...


The Unlikely Inventor of the Automatic Rice Cooker A Japanese housewife’s experiments cracked the code of perfectly cooked rice

 

And, from back in 2018...

 

The Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame: Zojirushi Micom Electric Rice Cooker/Warmer

 

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6 hours ago, weinoo said:

I'll throw a few more articles into the mix, as I just read them today...


The Unlikely Inventor of the Automatic Rice Cooker A Japanese housewife’s experiments cracked the code of perfectly cooked rice

 

And, from back in 2018...

 

The Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame: Zojirushi Micom Electric Rice Cooker/Warmer

 

 

The more things change the more they stay the same.  The first article relates that at its introduction the Toshiba rice cooker cost about a third of the typical Japanese monthly salary.  Now -- after almost seventy years of progress -- my Zojirushi model is selling on Amazon for about one third my monthly salary.

 

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