Let me use a rice cooker to explain this issue. Twenty years ago, a Chinese rice cooker cost about $20 to $30. The quality was average, and the functions were quite limited. It cooked rice pretty ...

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It turns out that oatmeal can be easily prepared in most rice cookers. (Provided you have some time on your hands.) This cooking method is a great solution for multitaskers and folks on a tight mo ...

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I have two rice cookers. Ol' trusty, that I've used since college (and that was not recently), and a modern digital one from Toshiba. Judge me all you want, but I use them both and the old one is ...

No two recipes are alike, but one thing remains the same—it feeds a crowd. Our slow-cooker Kentucky burgoo is no exception. In our version of burgoo, we stick to pork. Both sausage links and pork ...

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