Dollar Tree says US$1.25 price point to become new standard

Re:Dollar Tree says US$1.25 price point to become new standard by onecommentman on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @12:37AM (#29327207)

With an electric pressure cooker, say Instapot ($60 new, 11/23/21), prep time for rice is less than 3 minutes, and beans even less. Just did it. Cooking time from 1 cup beans (no presoak) to cooked is 1 hour, two cups rice to cooked is 20 minutes. Maybe you can do both combined at the same time in an hour. Total time of involvement by chef…about 5 minutes. And the pot keeps it warm until you wake up from your nap.

Don’t go “Four Yorkshiremen” on the price of the pressure cooker. You can get it for less used, and it’s a perfect present from anyone who knows money is an issue for you. Maybe free at dumpsters when college students are clearing out their dorm rooms.

Re: the “boring and soul rushing” bit…I recommend bringing that up with anyone in Mexico or Latin America. Or are those type of people just…different (or more creative)?

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Re:Dollar Tree says US$1.25 price point to become new standard by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @01:01AM (#29327312)

I also have a pressure cooker, cooking time for rice is nowhere close to 3 minutes, it's about 30 minutes.

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Re:Dollar Tree says US$1.25 price point to become new standard by detaro on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @01:07AM (#29327332)

You misread their comment: prep time 3 mins (i.e. the time you are actively doing anything), the rest is it cooking away on its own.

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Re:Dollar Tree says US$1.25 price point to become new standard by lenkite on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @04:57AM (#29328467)

For folks who are keeping 2 jobs just to stay afloat that cooking time is carved from sleep time.

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Re:Dollar Tree says US$1.25 price point to become new standard by HWR_14 on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @01:20PM (#29333240)

Rice and beans is a basis. There's also a lot of corn. But it's not that those people are different, it's that preparation takes a real amount of time.

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