A studying checklist on our relationship with our devices
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“The microwave is a baffling contradiction: a common, time-saving equipment that additionally appears trapped in time,” Jacob Candy wrote this week. The equipment isn’t very user-friendly—think about the “Popcorn” setting that some microwave-popcorn directions explicitly say to not use, as Candy notes—but it appears to by no means change.
“Now you can simply discover loads of modern and technologically superior dynamic precision cookers, stand mixers, and low machines, amongst many different home equipment,” Candy writes. “However one way or the other, the microwave, a tool utilized in practically each American dwelling, has responded with a resigned shrug.”
As we speak’s publication explores our home equipment: those who really feel caught in time, those who time has been unkind to, and those who by no means want to vary in any respect.
On Home equipment
By Jacob Candy
Each kitchen equipment is getting sensible—besides one.
Too Many People Are Lacking Out on the Finest Kitchen Gadget
By Matteo Wong
The rice cooker has been excellent since 1955.
The Instantaneous Pot Failed As a result of It Was a Good Product
By Amanda Mull
A one-hit surprise isn’t sufficient.
Nonetheless Curious?
- Why folks identify their issues: Once we christen vehicles, devices, and the opposite vital possessions in our lives, we work together with them otherwise, Kathryn Hymes wrote final yr.
- Kill your gasoline range: It’s dangerous for you, and the setting. Should you can afford to keep away from it, you most likely ought to, Sabrina Imbler wrote in 2020.
Different Diversions
P.S.
In 2014, my colleague Adrienne LaFrance explored why we people identify our machines—and launched us to a generator nicknamed “Large Bertha.”
— Isabel
