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Hank Rogers[_2_] Hank Rogers[_2_] is offline
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Bruce wrote:
> 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.
>


It's probably yoose and Popeye's software. I don't have a problem
reading them. See if yoose can find a setting to wrap the lines instead
of having to rely on other people to compose just for yoose.