Re:Mass producing the most expensive rice cooker [video]
by veidr on Sunday November 05, 2023 @10:49AM
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> a Zojirushi cup isn't the same as an imperial cup
Right, but a US cup isn't the same as a Japanese cup, or a UK cup, or even a US "legal cup" etc.. unfortunately the "cup" isn't a useful unit of measurement any more than a non-XKCD-1179[1] date is a useful expression of a date (T_T)
> why would I want slow rice if there's a quick rice?
Slow rice is better.
> isn't it just a ratio of rice to water?
Yes (and therefore, indeed, WTF (!!!(?!)))
> what if I want quick brown rice? It's not possible.
There are levels to this game.
> You have no idea how long it's going to take
Indeed. Nobody does.
> As much as I appreciate good rice
Do you, though?
> I'd much rather suffer a 10% degradatio... if... controls could be simplified...Does something like that exist?
Yes (but not in/from Japan)
> Do the Japanese prefer having more options to tweak?
Yes
> Is this a broader cultural preference, or just something special about this one brand?
The former; every Japanese rice cooker (and website) is like this, only more so[2]
[2]: seems like an infinitely recursive statement, since "every Japanese rice cooker" includes the Zojirushi rice cookers under discussion; however, infinite recursion is actually an explicitly-supported feature of TRON (OS, but that's the O in TRON), which powers almost all Japanese rice cookers[3]
Right, but a US cup isn't the same as a Japanese cup, or a UK cup, or even a US "legal cup" etc.. unfortunately the "cup" isn't a useful unit of measurement any more than a non-XKCD-1179[1] date is a useful expression of a date (T_T)
> why would I want slow rice if there's a quick rice?
Slow rice is better.
> isn't it just a ratio of rice to water?
Yes (and therefore, indeed, WTF (!!!(?!)))
> what if I want quick brown rice? It's not possible.
There are levels to this game.
> You have no idea how long it's going to take
Indeed. Nobody does.
> As much as I appreciate good rice
Do you, though?
> I'd much rather suffer a 10% degradatio... if... controls could be simplified...Does something like that exist?
Yes (but not in/from Japan)
> Do the Japanese prefer having more options to tweak?
Yes
> Is this a broader cultural preference, or just something special about this one brand?
The former; every Japanese rice cooker (and website) is like this, only more so[2]
[1]: https://xkcd.com/1179/
[2]: seems like an infinitely recursive statement, since "every Japanese rice cooker" includes the Zojirushi rice cookers under discussion; however, infinite recursion is actually an explicitly-supported feature of TRON (OS, but that's the O in TRON), which powers almost all Japanese rice cookers[3]
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project