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Title: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: thor447 on March 14, 2012, 08:36:31 PM: I bought a Zojirushi rice cooker, because they have an excellent reputation. The thing does make fantastic, restaurant quality rice, but it has it's little quirks that seem to be more common with oversees products. My rice cooker plays "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" when it begins the cooking cycle. Found it to be pretty funny.

Here's a video for you, maybe it isn't as funny as I think it is, but you be the judge.

http://s35.photobucket.com/albums/d175/thor447/?action=view&current=VIDEO0007.mp4
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: Robar233 on March 14, 2012, 08:50:43 PM: Thor,

I have a Zojirushi coffee maker. All it does is make great coffee.

Robar233
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: yankee2500 on March 17, 2012, 10:19:32 AM: I have a wife that makes rice and a Keurig coffee maker, push the button on either one to get your day going. ;D ;D
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: kjtrains on March 17, 2012, 10:25:23 AM: I also have a wife that does the rice, but just a regular coffee maker; the button on the coffee maker works like a charm. :)
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: RickP on March 17, 2012, 10:44:31 AM: Quote from: kjtrains on March 17, 2012, 10:25:23 AM
I also have a wife that does the rice, but just a regular coffee maker; the button on the coffee maker works like a charm. :)

Ask your wife to sing the song when she cooks rice and your there! :P
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: kjtrains on March 17, 2012, 10:50:51 AM: Quote from: RickP on March 17, 2012, 10:44:31 AM
Quote from: kjtrains on March 17, 2012, 10:25:23 AM
I also have a wife that does the rice, but just a regular coffee maker; the button on the coffee maker works like a charm. :)

Ask your wife to sing the song when she cooks rice and your there! :P

;D
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: Richard S on March 17, 2012, 11:32:54 AM: I have a Keurig coffee maker and a wife who gets her gourmet coffee in bed each morning. 8)

(As for cooking rice, I do that the old fashioned way in a cast-iron pot [tetsugama].)
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: thor447 on March 19, 2012, 04:04:18 AM: Quote from: Richard S on March 17, 2012, 11:32:54 AM
I have a Keurig coffee maker and a wife who gets her gourmet coffee in bed each morning. 8)

(As for cooking rice, I do that the old fashioned way in a cast-iron pot [tetsugama].)

You are a more patient man than I am sir. Put the rice and water in, hit the button, and just leave it till I'm ready for dinner. Keeps it just perfect all day if need be. And kudos on getting the coffee each morning.
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: Richard S on March 19, 2012, 06:28:05 AM: Quote from: thor447 on March 19, 2012, 04:04:18 AM
* * * And kudos on getting the coffee each morning.

Thank you, Sir.

Which reminds me, it is now 6:26 and time to take it up to her. 8)
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: Jack_F on March 19, 2012, 07:33:49 AM: Quote from: Richard S on March 19, 2012, 06:28:05 AM
Quote from: thor447 on March 19, 2012, 04:04:18 AM
* * * And kudos on getting the coffee each morning.

Thank you, Sir.

Which reminds me, it is now 6:26 and time to take it up to her. 8)

I just assume that a foot rub is included...... ;D
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: Richard S on March 19, 2012, 07:49:58 AM: You betcha! And whatever else "Herself" might desire. ;D
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: backupr9 on March 19, 2012, 08:59:22 AM: Quote from: Richard S on March 19, 2012, 07:49:58 AM
You betcha! And whatever else "Herself" might desire. ;D

Sounds familiar...my sweetheart gets coffee and breakfast in bed each day (since I semi-retired anyway)...started this even before her spine issue and surgery last summer. She never takes it for granted. I found out on our first date 45 years ago that the back of her neck smells like sugar cookies...it still does and I've been lost ever since.
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: Robar233 on March 19, 2012, 08:05:51 PM: All,

Not only is this forum informative, there are some funny as hell people on it too!

;D Robar233
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: tracker on March 19, 2012, 08:20:23 PM: Most collegial and congenial.
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: kjtrains on March 19, 2012, 08:27:39 PM: Quote from: tracker on March 19, 2012, 08:20:23 PM

Most collegial and congenial.

Most of the time! ;)
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: thor447 on March 19, 2012, 08:45:34 PM: HAHA
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: tracker on March 19, 2012, 08:57:40 PM: I have been on good behavior for quite awhile now; steady as she goes.
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: kjtrains on March 19, 2012, 08:59:55 PM: Quote
Quote from: tracker on March 19, 2012, 08:57:40 PM

I have been on good behavior for quite awhile now; steady as she goes.

I've been noticing that. Excellent! :)
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: tracker on March 19, 2012, 09:00:45 PM: Take me off your list.
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: kjtrains on March 19, 2012, 09:02:42 PM: Quote from: tracker on March 19, 2012, 09:00:45 PM

Take me off your list.

You're not on my list! ;D
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: tracker on March 19, 2012, 09:04:44 PM: Zer gut. Well done on the delete.
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: kjtrains on March 19, 2012, 09:26:23 PM: Quote from: tracker on March 19, 2012, 09:04:44 PM

Zer gut.

Zer gut, translated means: That's very good, my friend!
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: tracker on March 19, 2012, 09:28:18 PM: That was exactly my point but thanks for the translation.
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: kjtrains on March 19, 2012, 09:45:44 PM: Quote from: kjtrains on March 19, 2012, 08:27:39 PM
Quote from: tracker on March 19, 2012, 08:20:23 PM

Most collegial and congenial.

Most of the time! ;)
Quote
Quote from: tracker on March 19, 2012, 08:57:40 PM

I have been on good behavior for quite awhile now; steady as she goes.
And..........................my point! :) Your good behavior has been noticed. You're a good man, tracker!
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: backupr9 on March 19, 2012, 10:35:08 PM: Don't listen to them Tracker....you keep holding it in you're going to blow an aneurism or at the very least get a hernia. As far as the German phrases go, after 39 years away from Bamberg/Hohenfels, the only phrases that come to mind tonight (after 3 shots of Abelor 10) are: " Macht Nicht" and "Eine Weiswurst mit semf and zvei beir bitte." I had an accompanied tour, so some of the other more generally useful phrases have been blocked.
;D
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: tracker on March 19, 2012, 10:45:07 PM: Life is just too short not to dynamite the log jam or scratch the scab once in awhile, in a civilized fashion, of course.
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: kjtrains on March 19, 2012, 10:50:09 PM: Quote from: tracker on March 19, 2012, 10:45:07 PM

Life is just too short not to dynamite the log jam or scratch the scab once in awhile, in a civilized fashion, of course.

As I said tracker, you're a good man, so scratch that scab, dynamite the log jam, and feel better. Hope all is well.
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: Richard S on March 20, 2012, 07:07:17 PM: Quote from: backupr9 on March 19, 2012, 10:35:08 PM
* * * As far as the German phrases go, after 39 years away from Bamberg/Hohenfels, the only phrases that come to mind tonight (after 3 shots of Abelor 10) are: " Macht Nicht" and "Eine Weiswurst mit semf and zvei beir bitte." I had an accompanied tour, so some of the other more generally useful phrases have been blocked.
;D

Here is my favorite "watering hole" from my tour in Germany, the Bratwursthäusle, Rathausplatz 1, Nürnberg. Since about half of our general courts-martial were tried in Nürnberg, I must have eaten and drunk my weight in bratwurst and beer in this place back in the early '60s :

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30/RichardS/bratwursthaeusle-s.jpg)
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: backupr9 on March 21, 2012, 10:28:06 AM: My favorite was the Shammelsdorfer Gasthaus in, you guessed it, Shammelsdorf (about 10 clicks out of Bamberg). Best beer I've ever drunk. Some good German friends there. If you talked real nice to the owner's wife (and she was in a good mood) she'd go out back and kill a chicken, fry it up and serve it to you. I am ashamed to say that a couple of snowy nights I made it up the mountain (knob?) to my home in the old Healey without much memory of getting there. Dang beer was almost 12% alcohol.
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: Blueeyedme on March 21, 2012, 09:01:38 PM: I have the same one and it makes awesome rice...
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: backupr9 on March 21, 2012, 09:04:02 PM: Dang, I never tried making rice in the Healey...did it do OK?
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: tracker on March 21, 2012, 09:20:03 PM: As I recall the Austin Healy 3000 had an auto driver IFR radar selection after 10 or 7 beers, similar to the auto setting on the rice cooker. One arrived at their destination on a flying carpet.
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: backupr9 on March 22, 2012, 08:35:50 PM: Finally! A scientific explanation that makes sense...I always wondered, but suspected that the overdrive switch worked differently when subjected to beer fumes.
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: thor447 on March 23, 2012, 01:02:15 AM: I honestly laughed out loud a little.
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: Richard S on March 27, 2012, 02:45:58 PM: Quote from: backupr9 on March 21, 2012, 09:04:02 PM
Dang, I never tried making rice in the Healey...did it do OK?

Although I was unencumbered and called a room in the BOQ my home, a profound sense of discretion grounded in current self-preservation prevents me from describing certain "projects" conducted in and around a gold-colored Sunbeam Alpine Gran Turismo Series III convertible roadster back in that time and place -- other than possibly to note that none of them involved making rice. "What happened in Bavaria/Baden-Württemberg stayed in Bavaria/Baden-Württemberg." ;)
Title: Re: My halarious rice cooker
Post by: tracker on March 27, 2012, 09:45:29 PM: Something was cooking in Bavaria. It was probably on low and slow.