Posted on 10/22/2020 8:15:34 AM PDT by Jonty30
I have an 8 burner gas range with double convection oven. Even with that, my best time saver is the plancha I use on it.
Well, I also have a backup. It's called a Mother-in-Law. Sounds like she is similar to your wife. She won't sit down. She will come over for dinner, have to help make it, clean up after, sit down to watch a movie, get up 10 minutes later to start doing our laundry, then clean out our refrigerator,...... It is really quite annoying. How can I be lazy when my MIL is working. It's rough, but I manage.
I moved this last year. My old house had a lawn irrigation system. My new house does not. I miss it. I hate dragging hose. The sprinkler system doesn’t miss a day, you can schedule watering around city time restrictions, actually saves water because it always remembers to shut off the water when the time is over.
I would love to trade in my washboard and tub for one of those new fangled agitator doohickeys.
* gadget bump *
I’m not big on kitchen gadgetry. A toaster and an air fryer (and room mate’s coffee maker). I found I much prefer the old metal box grater to a food processor. I can just rinse it in the sink when done and place in the drainer and put away. No taking apart cleaning parts and reassembling. And finding a place to put it.
Moving out to the garage, they have been around awhile but I just started using an oscillating tool - A LOT! How did I ever get along without one?
Not for me, after all the time I spend making sure there is nothing on the ground that it will choke itself to death on I could have been done with a cordless vac.
Its constantly gets stuck and has to be rescued. I don't think the AI is advanced enough at this stage.
Its does seem to know to close the door after it goes into the bathroom then it bumps around until someone comes to free it.
Salad shooter. Best cheese grater ever. As God is my witness...I’ll never hand grate cheese again! lol
Pressure cooker
At Christmas I use two. I have one used to cotrol the lights outside, another to control the tree. They are timed to automatically turn on/off on a schedule (sunset to midnight). For times when I want them on at a time outside that schedule I have three verbal commands wired into my phone and Alexa (yeah yeah, I know people here hate Alexa): "turn on the outside lights", "Turn on the tree" and 'turn on the christmas lights' which turns them all on. Never need to walk around turning lights on / off every day.
I also use one to turn on a portable heater in my home office, which is in my garage and has no HVAC. In winter it gets frigid in there so when I wake up I just say 'warm up the office heater' which will turn it on for twenty minutes only and then turn it off. For really cold days I say 'deep warm the office' and it will run for 40 minutes. Either way, when I go out to it after my shower, it's nice and warm. But I did have to find a good heater that had a mechanical switch that I could leave in the 'on' position and control power to it via the smart switch.
When I go away I use them to turn on lights in the house at a randomized time and then off a few hours later, I can also remotely turn them on/off from wherever in the world I am if I want it to seem even more random.
I just use them for lots of things, way more than I expected to.
I forget what you call it, but Zojirushi also produced a slow-cooker-type pot that requires no electricity. You boil water in the outer pot, insert inner pot containing meat and veggies, seal it and in eight hours you have perfectly cooked stew. It was very useful during our cross-country RV trips. At home, it uses minimal electricity and you don't have to be concerned about electrical misadventures if you're away from home.
We have a rumba. Works great. We call him walter.
If you can figure out what you used, I’d apreciate it. I assume it is a thermos of some form. I like to read up on these things.
“Wood chipper. My neighborhood is now almost completely clear of Democrats.”
Love this!!!
That is criminal. I try to tell people, who support open borders, that America would become essentially a prison country, because where could you go, and their eyes glaze over and they think they will be fine.
I like and use my gas stove and toaster oven, but if I only had the m’wave, I would get along and be happy.
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