• Dessalines@lemmy.ml
    29·
    11 个月前

    One I didn’t see mentioned yet: a rice cooker.

    Put in rice, add water, push start button, and you get perfect rice every time. I’m usually against single-purpose kitchen tools but a rice cooker is soo worth it.

    • jmp242@sopuli.xyz
      9·
      11 个月前

      Really only if you eat a lot of rice. For once a year or so, a pot on the stove works just fine. The actual benefit I’ve see for ricecookers is how well they can hold the rice for hours ready to go, but that’s more of a commercial benefit I think.

      • chaorace@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        2·
        11 个月前

        […] but that’s more of a commercial benefit I think

        For me, this is the primary benefit of a rice cooker. Having warm, cheap, filling food on demand at any time is fantastic. I am so lazy and my little rice buddies are always ready to go when I can’t be bothered.

      • IonAddis@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 个月前

        A rice cooker can serve as a cheaper instapot tho. I can steam rice and veggies without having to babysit a pot.

        I also have kitchen anxiety, and in a roommate situation can keep a rice cooker in my room.

    • Addfwyn@lemmy.ml
      3·
      11 个月前

      Living in Japan, this almost didn’t register to me. I have literally never met anybody that didn’t have one. When you move out, you use your family’s old one until you can buy a newer one.

      Everyone should have one, absolutely.

      • zagaberoo@beehaw.org
        1·
        11 个月前

        When I did a homestay in Japan, my host dad was shocked my family didn’t have one. I do now though!

    • ebits21@lemmy.caEnglish
      01·
      11 个月前

      I know this will be a popular response, but I don’t get it.

      I just use a pot and the rice is always perfect? Not hard at all? Am I just good?

      • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
        3·
        11 个月前

        I used to do that for years, but rice cookers really do some magic to get perfectly fluffy rice. I thought my technique was good, until I tried rice from a rice cooker.

  • nbailey@lemmy.caEnglish
    28·
    11 个月前

    If you have a car get a dashcam. It’s more valuable than any insurance because it will definitively prove what happened when something goes wrong. Bonus: you can post videos of bad drivers doing stupid things on the internet for imaginary points.

    • jmp242@sopuli.xyz
      7·
      11 个月前

      If only there was actually a good car dashcam, but every time I go down that rabbit hole I give up frustrated. The quality (build, mounting, video, whatever) is shit in pretty much all of them, and the “passable” ones look like a web cam from 2005 still.

      • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
        71·
        11 个月前

        There’s a reason for that, Linus Tech Tips did a great video on it. You’re better off buying an old go pro and using that.

  • VaultOS@lemm.ee
    21·
    11 个月前

    A pair of high fidelity earplugs (aka concert earplugs or filtering earplugs). You can get a good non-custom pair for $15–$40, and that’ll work well for the average person for a long time.

    They’re excellent for live music, airplanes, and anytime you want the world to be quieter but still need to be able to understand speech. And for music specifically, they can bring the volume level down just enough to be safe without muffling the sound like traditional foam earplugs do. Protect your hearing, kids!

    • interolivary@beehaw.org
      9·
      11 个月前

      Protect your hearing, kids!

      Seriously, PROTECT YOUR FUCKING HEARING. I was young and stupid (now I’m no longer young) and went to way too many raves, gigs etc. without any sort of hearing protection, and now I have a nice constant background track of EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE and can’t hear higher frequencies worth shit

      • Piers@beehaw.org
        1·
        11 个月前

        Right ear went to working in a call centre. Left ear seems to be trying to decide if it’s going to recover or not from some unaware idiot in Tesco suddenly walking up and slamming his stock cart shut right next to me. I really hope I don’t end up with stereo EEEEEEEEEEEEE but it feels like an inevitable matter of time at this point. There goes the left one again…

        • Linssiili@sopuli.xyz
          1·
          11 个月前

          I can get tinnitus if I have too much ear-wax and I have to remove it periodically, since it wont come out on its own.

          • IgnacioM@lemmy.ml
            1·
            11 个月前

            Yep, tinnitus is your brain filling in the absence of hearing, its not a condition in itself

    • Damaskox@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 个月前

      I have done this same thing. My hearing is a bit hypersensitive and these kinds of headphones have helped me in many different, loud situations!

    • Paul@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      11 个月前

      I know it’s way more expensive, but the last gig I went to, I used my AirPods Pro in transparency mode, and it reduced the sound down from an insane ~110db to peaks of 90! Definitely worth protecting your ears.

  • LeateWonceslace@reddthat.com
    20·
    11 个月前

    3 dozen pairs of identical socks. Mine are black crew cut. I’ll wear them until the last few pairs are worn through and I’ll never have a sock without a mate.

  • UnfortunateBlaster69@feddit.de
    211·
    11 个月前

    A bike. Poor people in underdeveloped countries can use it to get access to education and markets, while people from developed countries can ise it to keep healthy and reduce their environmental footprint

    • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
      6·
      11 个月前

      I was going to say that, but out of the 6 bikes in the garage none of them are under $100 even second hand.

      In fact I would advise against getting a cheap shitty bike that isn’t going to last. Spend the extra money, get something good. It’s better for the environment and your wallet in the long run.

      • Atemu@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        11 个月前

        I’ve driven “good” bikes all my life. Aluminium frame, disc brakes, fancy suspension, 3x9 gears. That sort of thing.

        Wanna know what my best biking experience was? Riding a steel frame, 3-speed dutch-style rental omafiets with no suspension and regular-ass brakes on a vacation. That thing was hella comfortable, sturdy as a brick and convenient.

        If I lived in a not fully car-brained city where you can safely bike and was tight on money, I’d absolutely buy an old cheap used regular-ass steel frame bike with no frills and use the hell out of it until it’s irreparably broken. You can leave that thing standing in the rain, locked with just a frame lock (or perhaps even no lock at all) all without worrying that it might get damaged or stolen because there isn’t much to damage or steal in the first place.

        I also don’t see how buying a “good” bike in any way helps the environment when the alternative is re-using something that’s already been built and successfully used before.

        I love my 2000€ Brompton that I daily-drive but I’d be nearly as happy with a 100€ bike like I described above. You don’t get more bike when you go above that price point, you only get a more fancy bike.

  • Mr_1077@monero.town
    7·
    11 个月前

    A fire extinguisher can be found for less than 100 USD and is a must-have. A smoke detector is also a bare minimum in my opinion.

    • EddoWagt@feddit.nl
      2·
      11 个月前

      A smoke detector is also a bare minimum in my opinion.

      In your opinion? You’re required to have one where I life

      • Melllvar@startrek.websiteEnglish
        1·
        11 个月前

        In the USA private homes are not usually required to have them. Rentals, yes, but that’s a responsibility of the landlord.

    • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
      English
      1·
      11 个月前

      You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat; wrap it around your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you — daft as a brush, but very very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course you can dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

  • kostel_thecreed@lemmy.ca
    5·
    11 个月前

    A water kettle. Doesn’t have to be any fancy one, but it really fucking rocks for anything you might think of : want hot water for tea? No problem. Need hot water to steep something? No problem.

    Most mid-range ones are insanely power efficient too, often being alot better than just boiling water on a stovetop, or using a microwave. And, depending on insulation, heat can be stored for over 6! hours.

    • TheyHaveNoName@beehaw.org
      2·
      11 个月前

      I’m going to guess you’re in the States? I’m from England and live in the Netherlands. I’ve never met anybody ever who didn’t own a kettle. Is it true that it’s really not that common in the States to own a kettle?

    • Robertej92@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 个月前

      A kettle is such a default kitchen item in the UK that I find it kinda crazy that it’s not standard somewhere like the US, though I know I’ve seen the difference in base voltage being a factor before.

  • Jazsta@lemmy.world
    3·
    11 个月前

    A bidet. You can install it yourself in 20 minutes and enjoy a lifetime of cleaner buttholes and save on tp.

    • Poot@sh.itjust.works
      0·
      11 个月前

      I’ll never ‘go’ without one!

      Seriously though, bidets rock. Try one, get a good one, and you’ll never go back.

      • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.world
        0·
        11 个月前

        Every time I’ve tried to use a bidet, I’ve hated it. The water feels uncomfortable and sudden, and then I feel like I either can’t get dry with toilet paper and get chapped later, or it breaks up from the water and leaves pieces everywhere. The air dry varieties seem to contribute to chapped butt too. I know some people use wash cloths, but frankly the idea of leaving butthole cloth out in the bathroom weirds me out also.

        What is the secret to enjoying these things? Am I just too damn American for them?

        • Neeen@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          11 个月前

          When I use a bidet at home, I always do a few wipes first to avoid the breakup. Then I pat down with tp after to dry.

          I get that some people want to save tp, but I just want to feel clean after I drop a bomb.

        • ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev
          0·
          11 个月前

          The key is to use a hose and not a fixed one. The fixed ones don’t really allow you to clean where you’d like whereas the hose ones let you aim wherever. At least that’s how it’s been in my experience.

    • dan@upvote.au
      1·
      11 个月前

      I bought one that connects to the 12v outlet (what we used to call the “cigarette lighter slot”) in the car. It’s come in handy.

  • Thaolin@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    11 个月前

    As a homeowner, a Dremel. I’ve replaced half my tools with a single device and counting. Best 80 bucks I’ve spent on useful stuff in ages. You can get literally anything as an attachment, Lol. I’m waiting for the attachment that will do my taxes.

  • Limit@lemm.ee
    2·
    11 个月前

    A good quality fire extinguisher, multiple if you live in a large house or apartment.

    To that note, a good quality, working carbon monoxide detector should be on the list…