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Emphatic double agreement. I just want hot water. Give me hot water. (Though some kind of temperature sensor could be nice.) My second rage inducing grievanc
by specialist 6y ago
Emphatic double agreement.
I just want hot water. Give me hot water.
(Though some kind of temperature sensor could be nice.)
My second rage inducing grievance is bad cleanability. All the places dirt, scuz, grime fill up. Nooks, crannies, crevices, shelves, dials, mounts.
My third grievance is bad cable management. WTF am I supposed to tuck away the power cable? How do I secure it for storage?
My Vitamix blender, mixer, hot iron, instapot, sawzall, portable fans and heaters, the pre-USB-C Mac power bricks... All piss me off on the regular.
The least cleanable product I've ever owned was a Samsung fridge. iFixit would give it a -2/10 rating. I can only conclude its designers and product manager had never seen a fridge before. Or thoroughly hated all fridge-kind and were exacting revenge as part of some enduring blood feud.
PS- We need an iCleanIt product review site.
- jedberg 6y agoYour Vitamix should have cable management on the bottom. At least, all the ones I’ve ever seen/had have it.
- specialist 6y agoAppearances only. It's more of a mismanagement system. It'd be better if they didn't even pretend to try. I'd be ecstatic if there were exposed tines and I could just wrap the power cord. Like a typical vacuum cleaner. But it's a recessed wind up area, and you really have to force the cable in, precisely to fully hide the cable. If you don't, there's a pig tail remainder. In which case, why bother at all?
- oh_sigh 6y agoThere might be some other reason...just speaking generally since I don't know which model you're talking about, but maybe you can't do what you want because of some factor, like minimum bend radius of the power cable.
- DoingIsLearning 6y agoI would add all the unnecessarily loud and often endless beeping to the list of nuissances. I appreciate the beeps might have a purpose for accessibility but it really feels like the mute function should be active by default, rather than digging through the manual to find out how to mute it.
- reverend_gonzo 6y agoI can’t speak for everything but: the vitamin blender, for cleaning, fill it water, some dish soap, and blend for 45 seconds at full power, then rinse out. For the instant pot. It’s just a regular pot. Take it out and stick it in the dishwasher. I agree with your point in general but those are dead simple to manage.
- com2kid 6y agoInstapots have a bunch of ridges where the lid clicks into place. Not easy to clean. :( Not impossible, but if anything gets caked on there, rather annoying. Also the lid gets scummy, not hard to wipe off, but there are enough snooks and crannies that it is a bit irritating.
- core-questions 6y agoThere is always rice in that stupid trough around the edge. Always. I clean it, and then I come back the next day and there's rice there again.
- specialist 6y agoIKR. I loved my Magefesa pressure cooker. So easy to clean. Its design is very nearly the pinnacle of human achievement. I damaged the valve and that tiny plastic insert cost almost as much as a whole new unit, so I decided to try the InstaPot that everyone was crazy about. I cannot fathom how someone ends up designing the InstaPot. They must have started with a CrockPot. I do like the timer. Next time I'll upgrade my stove and stick with the dumb pot.
- com2kid 6y agoDon't get me wrong, I love how simple instapots are, and not using up one of my 2 high btu burners is a giant feature.
- ceejayoz 6y agoOn the bright side, infinite rice!
- mjrbrennan 6y agoJust curious...why use a microwave for hot water instead of an electric kettle?
- dhosek 6y agoSpeed plus that way I don't need to own an electric kettle.
- Jedd 6y agoSpeed? In terms of time and energy, a kettle is faster and more efficient. I guess a kettle is a single-purpose tool, and if a microwave oven is available, and you don't mind waiting while large volumes (1+ litres) are boiled, and have suitable receptacles to hold and contain that much water while boiling inside a microwave oven, this makes some sense. (In contrast, I don't own a microwave oven.)
- m463 6y agoYou can have a nice user interface.... you just have to let them collect all the data all the time. (5g will make this worse) Oh wait, that doesn't mean it's better and the intrusiveness cancels out all the convenience plus more.
- hobby-coder-guy 6y agoOn the regular?
- young_unixer 6y agoIsn't it dangerous to microwave water due to superheating?
- virgil_disgr4ce 6y agoI had just written a reply about how superheating is unlikely because the water would have to be pure (i.e. distilled), but I looked it up and it turns out that's a myth! So exploding superheated water is indeed a potential risk from microwaving
- hamburglar 6y agoI'm always on the lookout for it (if I see bubbles, I know it's safe), since I regularly boil water in the microwave, and I've even tried to superheat water just to see what it was like, but I've never actually succeeded at it. My understanding is that it's more about whether your container has nucleation sites for bubbles to form than about the purity of the water. My pyrex measuring cup must have plenty of scratches on the inside.
- m463 6y agotry boiling it twice. once, cool a little, then try it again.
- hamburglar 6y agoThanks for the tip, but no luck; it just started boiling again.
- m463 6y agobut did it start to gradually boil, or boil sort of all-at-once?
- srtjstjsj 6y agoOnly if you use far too much power x time.
- ihuman 6y ago> Though some kind of temperature sensor could be nice Some microwaves have a steam sensor, and use that to detect how cooked something is Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiS27feX8o0&t=239 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiS27feX8o0&t=239 at 3:59
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- sdflhasjd 6y agoThis reminds me of a particular popular shaving brand. Their shaving foam comes in a steel can, which readily corrodes in the wet bathroom evironment, leaving rust stains.
- thefringthing 6y ago> I just want hot water. Give me hot water. I always forget that Americans heat water in the microwave instead of an electric kettle.
- yurishimo 6y agoSome of us. I do it on the stove in a pot or a kettle.
- greggman3 6y agoI'm sure these are bad for the environment but at least in Japan (and Taiwan?) pretty much every household has a water boiler. They do have buttons but in general you turn them on, they keep the water at 90, 95, or 98c. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=zojirushi+water+boiler&crid=32LNK9KOO8HL4&sprefix=zoujirushi%2Caps%2C319&ref=nb_sb_ss_sc_1_10 https://www.amazon.com/s?k=zojirushi+water+boiler&crid=32LNK...
- worldsayshi 6y agoHow is this an improvement over an electric kettle?
- thotsBgone 6y agoThey keep the water warm indefinitely, apparently.
- johnwalkr 6y agoThe water is always hot. Instant coffee and beverages are popular there, so it makes a difference that hot water is ready to go with no waiting time. And in Japan at least, the household voltage is only 100V, so kettles take forever to heat up.
- fulafel 6y agoIt wastes power (and AC load) but might save a tiny amount of time compared to a low power electric kettle.
- scruple 6y agoWe have one and I think it's incredible and incredibly useful. I'm curious about the "bad for the environment" comment. Ours is a 2005 model and it is in pristine condition, has no scaling, because we descale it once or twice a year, and it still works as well as it did when it was first purchased. My wife is Chinese-American and "water pots" are standard fare in most Asian households. Ditto for Zojirushi Rice Cookers. For the record, our rice cooker is 13 years old, is used 4-5+ times a week, and both looks and works as if it were brand new.
- leejoramo 6y agoOne suggestion is to look for products that have an NSF approval. This in the US, this means the product is approved for use in a commercial kitchen. Amount other things Cleanabilty is requirement. There are many NSF approved products that work well in home (microwaves). Others such as commercial refrigerators are generally not appropriate for home use.
- hansvm 6y ago> My second rage inducing grievance is bad cleanability. All the places dirt, scuz, grime fill up. Nooks, crannies, crevices, shelves, dials, mounts. This bugs me to no end, and it isn't limited to consumer-grade appliances. Work tables, counters, and other surfaces will be made of a food-grade stainless while simultaneously having a giant crevice that can't be properly accessed without a pressure washer and which has the moldy gunk cleaned out of it...never.