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On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 15:41:40 -0500, wrote:

>On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:12:18 -0800 (PST), dsi1
> wrote:
>
>>On Thursday, January 10, 2019 at 9:02:47 AM UTC-10, Nancy2 wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, January 9, 2019 at 8:22:32 PM UTC-6, Sqwertz wrote:
>>> > On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 12:26:29 -0800 (PST), Nancy2 wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > You have taken a position with no knowledg of the small appliance we are talking about, and
>>> > > that position is one of ignorance about that appliance, and now are too stubborn to quit
>>> > > and say you were mistaken. It's a sorry position.
>>> >
>>> > I'm not mistaken at all. My mother used to have an egg cooker, as I
>>> > implied in a previous post. I had used it a couple times and was
>>> > glad when I accidentally dropped it on the floor and broke it. As
>>> > it wasn't taking up valuable counter space and I didn't have to drag
>>> > it out of the cupboard when she needed it. Using the egg cooker is
>>> > no more convenient than using a pan. And the pan is infinitely more
>>> > useful.
>>> >
>>> > I think we can call this argument over, if not a truce.
>>> >
>>> > -sw
>>>
>>> I'll agree to a truce, with a couple final points: it takes a lot more water to boil eggs on top the stove, and a pot to do it with takes up more space in a cupboard than an egg cooker. Second, it takes a lot more energy to boil a pot of water than it does for a cooker to do its thing.
>>>
>>> There, I'm finished. ;-)
>>>
>>> N.

>>
>>If you had an automatic rice cooker you could probably do the same thing. Use a steamer basket and the same amount of water. It is unfortunate that my daughter threw out my beautiful rice cooker else I would be steaming eggs at this very moment.

>
>I much prefer an ordinary pot for cooking rice... and I can use the
>same pot to boil eggs, and I do... that 2 qt Farberware pot is the
>only pot that lives on my stove... that one pot is used to cook many
>other things.
>
>BTW, I can't only read a small portion of your's and nancy2's posts...
>one day yoose may fix your word wrap... how ironic that yoose are
>touting automatic cookery.


Wait until you see a post by Greg Morrow, where he quotes an entire
article with endless lines. Screen pollution.