One thing you recently discovered that has changed your life

[rosemole]

For the better, obviously.

Can be a thing, person, activity, place...anything really.

Mine is trig bagging. It's so much fun and gets you out there, to unexpected and unknown places.

What's yours?

I'm quite intelligent too and can't be bothered to cook rice. If there is a cheap gadget that will make my life easier then I'm going to use it. I don't know why the PP has to be so snidey.

Yes these threads ALWAYS have people bleating on about 'how hard can it be to... use a pan/hang a pan/read a map/whatever.

The title of the thread is not 'justify why you have bought a certain product'

bloody hell, imagine having @JudgeJ as a parent or inlaw 😦 and they’re visiting. The judgement!!

I have a very high IQ, two 1st class degrees and a masters, but I'm cheerfully rubbish at cooking rice. Still, on the bright side, whilst I apparently lack basic intelligence, I can afford a rice cooker, so that's that problem solved.

@BlossomToLeaves thank you/ if assumed it was the J and J one so you saved me from a big mistake!

Stephen Fry reading audiobooks. Listening to him read P. G. Wodehouse and Sherlock Holmes is pure bliss. Hot bath, glass of wine, and Stephen Fry…almost makes life worth living. 😀

Nobody is saying its hard. It can make one's life easier if you dont have to keep an eye on it, while you are possibly running after multiple young children or whatever distraction.
I dont even have or want rice cooker to be able to see that.

@Wibblywobblybobbly me too- lol!!

I hesitate to dip my toe into the water of rice cookers lest JudgeJ also thinks I’m an imbecile, but I found mine at the back of the cupboard when spring cleaning a few weeks ago, and used it this morning to make porridge. That’s going to be a game changer on busy mornings - stick the oats and liquid in, turn it on, go and have a shower, wash hair, get ready for work and come back to a bowl of warm porridge with no need to give it any thought or attention.

Okay just added some to my cart. Thank you @HellofromJohnCraven !

I have a small one that does enough for one or two people.

I hesitate to dip my toe into the water of rice cookers lest JudgeJ also thinks I’m an imbecile,

I never cook rice as not a big fan (if i do i buy the marinated rice ones in a microwave sachet!) but i’m tempted to buy one just to know that i’m regarded as an imbecile by the likes of @JudgeJ 😆

A kitchen roll holder that attaches to the underside of my kitchen cabinets and lets me tear off a sheet one-handed.

The brand name is Simple Human, which amuses me.

Oh my, what a fantastic idea. What measurements do you use ? I really could hug you, never thought of using it for my porridge x

the person who mentioned the sauna blanket… please could you elaborate! i’m considering and they are ££££!

I must follow a gluten-free diet, and one of the fun parts of that is not being able to use someone else's toaster if I'm at their house. If I want to toast something, I have to use the grill. I hence know from experience that grilling toast is objectively easier than boiling rice in a pan because there are fewer steps to grill toast and I don't need to weigh or measure anything to grill toast.

Yet no one, absolutely no one, thinks that having a toaster is pointless or a waste of money and space or something that anyone with "basic intelligence" could easily do without.

If someone has a toaster and that person looks down on people who have rice cookers, he or she is a hypocrite.

Please post your recipe for rice cooker porridge.

It depends on how gloopy you like your porridge. I used 1 cup of oats to 1 and a quarter cups of water but this made quite thick porridge and I like mine much looser so tomorrow I think I’ll probably do 1 cup oats to 2 cups liquid. It was really easy to loosen it with boiling water to the consistency I do like this morning though.

It only took about 15 mins to make (usually takes about 25 on the stove top) which was an added bonus and the oats were cooked perfectly.

The Stock Market, once I found a broker. It's slightly addictive.

I have a rice cooker, it makes life easier. Settings for the different types of rice, plus a little basket that will,fit over the top so you can steam some veg or chicken if you want. It just sits burbling away while I do the main dish and and if that takes overlong it keeps,the rice warm without spoiling it. Can also add any sort of veg or flavour to the rice to get a fancy one. And it never boils over!!
mine will also do porridge and other grains, and will a.so do a small stew like a slow cooker, though I've never tried that.
just about every kitchen gadget can be replicated in the oven or on the stove, but slow cookers, air fryers rice cookers, Remoskas, food mixers, all make life lighter.

I also lack basic intelligence and have a rice cooker.🙋

Oodies. Mine has transformed the depths of winter at home from chilly and miserable despite heating and layers and blankets into feeling warm and toasty within minutes. Utter game changer. Wish it’d been invented decades ago. Absolutely get one if you’re always cold.

I'm adding gluten-free oats to my online shopping order to try this next week, assuming that I can find enough "basic intelligence" between the sofa cushions to figure out how to drive the website.

Actually, that's a recent life-changing thing: online grocery ordering. Not having to deal with sensory hell just to buy food is a big win.

That I'm the messiah !!!
Nar turns out I was just a naughty boy. .
Oh well, next year maybe

I wonder if they make rice cookers

That I can stay walking in the line/pavement space I'm already in, and not move out of the way, if a man or group is walking towards me. I can also neither apologise nor thank them if they bash into me or move for me.

I've held my line several times in recent months, and had two men clip my shoulder as they moved at the last second, and one of a group of students stop millimetres away and look absolutely astonished that I hadn't moved off the path and onto the grass for him.

It's fun!