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On Tue, 08 Jan 2019 20:31:10 -0500, wrote:

> On Tue, 08 Jan 2019 16:31:52 GMT, Pamela >
> wrote:
>
>>On 23:06 7 Jan 2019, Boron Elgar > wrote in
m:
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>>> On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 12:36:56 -0600, Sqwertz >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 21:07:10 -0800 (PST), Nancy2 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Sqwerzts, one uses a cooker so as not to spend time watching the
>>>>> clock or setting a timer, etc.
>>>>
>>>>You still have to set something on the cooker telling it how you
>>>>want your eggs cooked. So you still set a timer of some sort. if
>>>>it only does hard boiled, then its even more useless.
>>>
>>> The included water measuring tube, which also has a pin to piece the
>>> eggshell, has lines on it indicating how much water to add for
>>> soft/hard eggs. Hasn't failed yet.
>>>
>>>>I gave up gadgets long ago. Actually, I never really started them.
>>>>I learned from my mother. I'd rather know how to cook using
>>>>universal equipment than being tied to some gadget that won't be
>>>>available in many situations.
>>>
>>> Having a gadget does not mean one does not have skills to prepare
>>> foods without it.. How many situations could I possibly be in where I
>>> would want soft./hard boiled eggs, where my gadget won't be available?
>>> Yikes, it is broken and Amazon will have me another one tomorrow? One
>>> could say the same about a toaster.

>>
>>Good points. Squirt is nitpicking but not doing a very good job of it.


Oh, stop being so butthurt. Nitpicking is insisting that chocolate
covered cherries are Christmas candy.

Really - trying to recruit fellow Sqwertz-haters to bond with you by
sucking up is so... 90's usenet.

(piggybacking due to killfile)

-sw