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Rice Cooker Technology

14 点作者 _pius大约 11 年前

12 条评论

CocaKoala大约 11 年前
I&#x27;m not sure what this dude is complaining about. He says &quot;Oh woe is me, my rice cooker is so complicated! Look at this instruction manual&quot; and then proceeds to post a diagram that includes complicated steps like &quot;put the rice in the pot&quot; and &quot;plug it in&quot;. The actual cooking of the rice involves pressing two buttons; one button is literally the power button to turn the damn thing on, and another button lets you select what type of rice you want. If pressing two buttons is considered to be a complicated process, how did he manage to make the blog post?<p>The advent of fuzzy logic in rice cookers is pretty great, in my opinion; maybe he doesn&#x27;t get a lot of benefit out of the ability to cook e.g. brown rice or bread or vegetables in his rice cooker, but if he&#x27;s trying to complain that this device is so so complicated, he should probably post an actual complication that he has trouble with, instead of whining about pressing two clearly labeled buttons.
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acomjean大约 11 年前
Like microwaves which have about 30 cooking modes now and used to have a power level and a timer.<p>I wonder if internet of things and google analytics will show what features of appliances people actually use.<p>Oblig new yorker: <a href="http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/No-I-don-t-want-to-play-chess-I-just-want-you-to-reheat-the-lasagna-New-Yorker-Cartoon-Prints_i8542213_.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.condenaststore.com&#x2F;-sp&#x2F;No-I-don-t-want-to-play-ch...</a>
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xarien大约 11 年前
If you eat brown rice every day, a decent induction rice cooker is absolutely worth the money (bonus for GABA mode).
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grosbisou大约 11 年前
I have the same &#x27;new&#x27; rice cooker. You have a button to turn it on and a button to launch the cooking. I don&#x27;t see what&#x27;s complicated about it.<p>(The other buttons are for brown rice and delay cooking start. Pretty useful too even if I never use them).
scoofy大约 11 年前
Survivorship Bias. &quot;They don&#x27;t make&#x27;em like they used to&quot; because the ones that broke have been dead and buried for decades, and the few that remain are the only ones to be seen.<p>*edit: i accidentally selectioned a survivorship in my biases.
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mrbill大约 11 年前
Sometimes simpler is better - his old unit was most likely entirely mechanical and involved an analog thermostat or thermistor and a single button. The new one? has a control panel and a microcontroller&#x2F;processor.<p>Things like this are why I got the simplest, most mechanical washer and dryer set that Lowes offered when I moved nine years ago. I didn&#x27;t want touchscreens or LCDs; I didn&#x27;t want to have to reboot my W&#x2F;D if something went wrong. Not a single problem in those nine years, and if something does break, it&#x27;s going to be a simple mechanical part that&#x27;s easy to fix.
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arh68大约 11 年前
I partly agree. I use 2 microwave buttons: popcorn &amp; +1 minute. I kept my old microwave that had 1 dial (since it&#x27;s <i>half</i> the controls, same machinery) but I can&#x27;t put it over the stove.<p>My Vitamix has great controls: a giant power switch, a knob, and a giant <i>maximum power</i> switch. My Kitchenaid is great, too: 2 metal levers and a right-tighty metal-on-metal attachment arm.<p>It&#x27;s those flat &#x27;capacitive&#x27; buttons that I hate. My fridge has some. Did I press it? I can&#x27;t feel it in the dark. Did my elbow brush it?
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joshuak大约 11 年前
Make fun, but I think this is an excellent point about feature creep. If your target market already has a &#x27;good enough&#x27; product offering how do you differentiate yourself to get someone to spend more on your equivalent product or buy a replacement for something they already own and works fine.<p>This does not seem like a optimization by the marketplace towards better products as some economic theories would suggest. Or is it?
lowmagnet大约 11 年前
You can still get the non-digital kind from Tiger, others.
hkbarton大约 11 年前
I think this is not about &quot;complicate&quot;, this is about a kind of emotion that author didn&#x27;t want throw his old rice cooker :)
carsongross大约 11 年前
Compare and contrast with many of the new UX concepts being explored in the web&#x2F;mobile space...
brianbreslin大约 11 年前
Even these newfangled digital ones are pretty cheap now.<p>I love the idea of being able to schedule when to have it cook.
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