My therapist had a stroke. Apparently they will be fine after a couple of weeks of rest, but still.
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At 4:30am?? YIKES! (As I also don’t have aircon, I really empathize. I hope you can get some sleep.)
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I have a feeling you’re in a different state to me. If you weren’t I’d invite you over to share my air con. I owe you cookies anyway.
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That’s 91 degrees F. (American here, I had to do the conversion.)
Fuckin’ yikes; you have my sincere sympathies.
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I read that Australia had 36ºC in the middle of the night. Greetings from a warming planet? Though I don’t know where You are, when I lived in the high desert, we would build a home made swamp cooler and it worked like a charm. As cheap as it was effective. Now, in South America it does not work that well. Too humid.
R.I.P.
My Aroma rice steamer has entered the terminal stage and burnt out the thermostat, so now all cycles are set to “nuclear meltdown”.
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Condolences. My Tiger rice maker just recently died as well.
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Damn.
I was thinking about getting a rice cooker too.
They just look so …cool.
Totally worth it, if you eat a lot of rice.
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Tell me whole grain brown rice
would cook just as well!?
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With a nicer rice cooker, there is a setting for it.
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I’ve owned Aroma rice cookers for over 15 years, and never had a problem until now. I cook white rice, brown rice, pasta, “baked” potatoes, hard-boiled eggs, and steamed vegetables regularly. I understand it’s possible to make little cakes, but I’ve never tried it.
I always have perfect rice, as long as I follow the instructions.
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Yes, absolutely! You don’t even need a rice cooker with fancy settings. I have this very simple and inexpensive one (I’ve seen it on sale at a big brick store for $15 + tax), and I cook whole grain brown rice in it several times a week.
The settings on mine are simply “on” and “warm”. You put in the usual amount of rice and water that you would use on a stovetop [1 cup uncooked brown rice to 2.5 cups water], turn it on, and when it’s done cooking it switches to “warm”. (But how does it know how long to cook the rice, if you don’t set any timer? It has a heating element and a temperature sensor. As long as there’s still some water boiling, the temperature won’t go above 212F. But once the rice is fully cooked and all the water has been absorbed, the temperature starts rising, so then the sensor tells it to switch over to “warm”.)
It makes perfect brown rice, every time. One of my siblings has a different, more expensive rice cooker with fancy settings, and they can’t seem to get their brown rice to come out right. I advocate the simple ones! I’ve had mine for years, still going strong.
Also really great for quinoa. My quinoa never came out right until I started making it in my rice cooker. Now it’s perfect every time.
And…this has gone a ways off the main topic, I’m afraid! [See zfirphdn’s law (also known as Codwin’s law): All BB bbs threads, if left to go on long enough, will inevitably turn to discussion of food.] 
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Wow…sounds like my cup o’ tea!
Ughhhhhhhh…Yes I really did day that!
Seriously, thanks for the link. I picked up some Uncle Ben’s Ready-to-Serve individual pkgs. of whole-grain chicken flavored brown rice.
Just pop in microwave for 90-seconds.
I’m such a lazy cheater…looking for the easy way out…etc., etc!
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Dang! Tried to EDIT…
" really did SAY …"
What can I say??
I’M NEW HERE
(I realize that excuse only lasts
foraminute)!
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Also @XantheStone @anon3072533 @Melizmatic
Thanks all! I was very uncomfortable and grumpy at the temperature, the fact it was no lower than 31° all night and that I had to work at 4.30am in such heat… and it got to 45° later that day, although the cool change dropped the temp to 28° about 3pm (although my place stayed hot and it still is 
).
That’s like a 70 degree differential from near you @GoatCheezInfrno . Ridiculous.
And fuck it, I sound like a granny!
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I spend the day from 15:00h onwards getting the dishwasher of the previous tenants out, cleaning the shit they left behind, trying to get my dishwasher in, and fixing the bloody sink so the water of the dishwasher doesn’t sit in a far too long tube (forming an U, no less, as SPECIFICALLY is depicted to avoid in the bloody manual!). I cut myself, I bruised myself, got blood on the floor and in the cupboards, and I got four months old sink water on the wounds. I inhaled a slight breeze toxic vapours when I cleaned the tubes with NaOH solutions and some fucking residuals of unknown composition were still present, and I already had a major bronchitis this week.
On the positive side, I used two new German words today I never used before, knowingly. Wrasenblech (the metal sheet under the wooden counter on top of the dishwasher which stops the vapour out of the hot dishwasher to damage the wood, which of course the previous tenants did not get), and Schnäupe (the slightly outwards curved thingy which helps you to pour out stuff from a container, cup or kettle).
ETA: it’s past 23:00h now, and besides tidying up this shit I might have successfully installed a dishwasher. The price is a half-torn of kitchen counter which needs re-fixing.
Anyone wants to buy a Rengöra? It already cost me my nerves.
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I get super cranky when it’s hot. I get nauseous and a heat rash between my boobs. And I don’t sleep well without weight on me. So yeah, so damn cranky. I feel ya.
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What? Is this like Mexico, where you move out, and it’s the next tenant’s issue to deal with the mess?
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I don’t blame you, but I don’t have a microwave…yet. So, I’m kind of left without a convenient way to cook for the time being.
By the way, welcome to BoingBoing.
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