Indolent but Agreeable

Bridgerton (2020-) | After The Rain

its literally so fucking wild seeing people your age having kids on purpose now

The older I get the funnier this is.

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo.

c: (x), (x), (x)

The finest swordsman I ever saw was a captain in Cleopatra’s bodyguard. He showed me a few points.

An isolated mid-week getaway was the perfect excuse to channel my inner Marie Antoinette, the queen of cottagecore! For the occassion, I made a new organza Therese hood based on the American Duchess Guide to 18th Century Beauty. It’s silly and glorious, and whenever I drew the veil over my face I felt instantly compelled to exclaim “but who IS this mysterious damsel??” 10/10 would recommend. I paired it with my trusty chemise gown and some big floofy hair, and just communed with nature and old canal works!

*Doctor voice* That’s… unusual. I’m not sure what’s causing that, I—that’s, I—um. I want to refer you to someone else.

*Second doctor voice* We need to rerun these tests; clearly, an error has occurred. […] Well, I’ll be—that’s… unusual. I’m not sure what’s causing that, I—that’s, I—um. I want to refer you to someone else.

#*third doctor voice* I’m referring you back to your PCP (via @consolecadet)

“Congratulations, your tests are normal. Any symptoms are clearly the result of your imagination and will go away now”

In the latest in the line of deeply weird pandemic dreams, I dreamt that Gemma Chan’s character from Crazy Rich Asians married season 4 Blackadder, WWI era Captain Blackadder l. Spent the entire Dream wondering where Lt. George went, only to discover he’d just been in the next room the whole time.

Fantastic, the Ninth Doctor is back! 

Christopher Eccleston returns to Doctor Who with a brand-new series of full-cast audio adventures from Big Finish. Learn more at https://bbc.in/3fEX2M3 

it’s funny cause he’s just like fuck have i remembered to feed watson today

It’s also funny cause Watson looks like every dog ever when they stand over their empty bowl looking longingly at the kibble bag. 

Robe à l'anglaise

c.1783

England

Royal Ontario Museum

Robe à l'anglaise

c.1783

England

Royal Ontario Museum

Tybalt: Fine. You have misplaced and improperly stored a lot of blood.

‪anyone else's memory completely destroyed by mental illness?‬

‪anyone else's memory completely destroyed by mental illness?‬

One of the best parts of 2020 is the constant feeling that you’re being an over-reacting weirdo but also, impossibly, that at the same time you’re not taking it seriously enough, are taking too many risks, and that you might die or kill your family because of them.

THIS IS ALL GREAT FOR MENTAL HEALTH.

cannot believe people actually buy rice makers when regular rice itself is stupidly easy to make

no, white nonsense is people paying over $50 for an appliance that can only do one (1) task

rice cooker doesn't just make rice; it can make extra thicc pancakes too.

ok I understand rice cookers even less now!!

You can steam veggies too

Grew up in half Japanese household. Have rice maker.

Dated Korean girl. Had rice maker.

Care to explain how this is a white thing?

Its a yank thing

Man sure is nice to have a versitile cooking component to do soft omlets, steamed vegetables, unleavened breads, sauces and of course rice in.

Wait it's a white thing now even though it came from Japan and most Asian households own one because it's convienant?

So I don't want to get into that. It's kinda narrow visioned to think something can only do one thing. But the history of the development of the rice cooker is super interesting and marked by many many failures. It also is about science, invention and trial and error.

The gist of it is in 1937 the Imperial Japanese Army had the first electric rice cooker which was really just a box with a heating coil under it. It worked but was not great. In 1945 Mitsubishi made the first commercial rice cooker but again it was as pot with a heating coil and required constant monitoring or the rice would burn. There had to be a better way.

In 1956 Yoshitada Minami working with Toshiba made the first true set and forget rice cooker. It required hundreds of hours of experementation in all weather to work it out. His wife was pivitol in the development. At first he had the idea to do a bimetal thermostat switch meaning that as the water boiled off and was absorbed the temp in the pot rose and when it hit a certain point a piece of temp sensitive metal would bend away just enough cutting the flow of power. However the metal was very suceptable to hot and cold weather. The solution was to encase it in it's own pot shield and thus the true rice cooker was born. Now you could simply add water and rice, turn it on and when it was done cooking it'd turn itself off.

That lead to a massive development boost in automated cooking technology in both the commercial and private sector for a million different applications.

Back to the practical application of a rice cooker though. It may sound like it only does one thing but it's an electric pot that won't go above a certain temp. You can make pizza, bread, pasta, cake, soup, yogurt, potatoes and cook fish and meat dishes too.

Now, that's all I got to say about em.

bruh just use a pot of hot water

But that can boil over because it doesn't regulate its own temperature

The one I have turns off when the rice is cooked and switches to a warming mode so you can focus on the main meal

You can also make egg fried rice in it

“... white nonsense ....”

Whut.

“... appliance that can only do one (1) task “

If only there was a group of people who typically did that task everyday.

I went to a school that was over 50% Asian students and almost every dorm had a rice maker wtf r u on about op

The sheer ridiculousness of this entire post to me, especially the fact that no one has yet pointed out why Asians even have rice cookers.

Cooking rice is not "stupidly easy". Yes, it is doable, but it's not that easy for something that has to be done consistently everyday. For the record, cooking rice on the stove involve boiling cleaned rice on high heat, then covering the pot and lowering the heat to low until the rice is done. And just because the water has dried up doesn't mean the rice is done—you cook it with steam a bit more, which I'm sure most if not all cultures in Asia has a term for. There are also things you should not do if you don't know what you're doing: do not open the pot, do not release the steam, do not mix the rice, etc.

This is why a rice cooker is one of the first appliance purchases for Asian households. It's cheap and it frees you up to cook the rest of your meal without having to watch the rice. It's not about multiple functions. It has ONE function, but it's a pretty important function for a culture that requires something done right everyday.

We got our first rice cooker from Chinese friends who were like “why in the name of sanity are you making rice on the stove also please stop.”