"Julie Bove" > wrote:
> "dsi1" > wrote in message
> ...
> On Sunday, October 20, 2013 6:43:38 PM UTC-10, Xeno Lith wrote:
>> On 21/10/13 11:21 AM, gtr wrote:
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>>> On 2013-10-20 12:03:27 +0000, Xeno Lith said:
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>>>> We use our rice cooker, a 5 cup version, on a daily basis. It it the
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>>>> second most used appliance here, behind only the electric jug.
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>>> Same here, though we use it twice a week. I assume by "electric jug" you
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>>> mean a machine that keeps water hot? Likely our most used applicance. We
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>>> drink tea all day.
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>> That's the one. It's the only appliance that we use more than the rice
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>> cooker. We don't use one for keeping water hot - we call them electric
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>> urns over here - we just use it to boil water on an as needed basis.
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>> Probably 5 to ten times a day on average and, yes, we are tea drinkers
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>> too! ;-)
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>> Xeno
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> The hot water pot we used in Wales was a gas. You put water in it and the
> water is boiling in a few minutes. It's the fastest way to boil water. Amazing!
>
> There was also a clothes washer that also dried the clothes in the same
> unit. Pretty slick. The weird part was there was no vent for the dryer.
> How is this done? The dryer is a closed system and the air is recycled.
> Water vapor is removed by running the air throw a refrigeration coils
> which changes the vapor into liquid water which then goes down the drain.
> The system doesn't work as well as a vented open system but that water pot made up for it.
>
> ---
>
> A lot of my friends in foreign countries have such things. AFAIK they
> are not available here. But I have seen something for a dryer if you
> have no vent to the outside. I was sold this mistakenly at a hardware
> store on Staten Island. I went to get new hose for a dryer vent. I told
> the guy that I was sure that we had a vent to the outside. But he was
> like... You live in an apartment? You need this! It was sort of a
> small bucket looking thing that attaches to the hose. I think you fill
> it with water. It collects the lint. And you have to empty it, perhaps
> each time you use it. Not really sure since we never used it since we did
> need exactly what I said we needed. I learned to hate that hardware
> store. They were notorious for selling us things we didn't need.


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Yes, those washer/dryer all in ones exist in the U.S. too, but they are
hard to find. I used to own one. It was perfect for my small apartment,
but it never completely dried my clothes.

jinx the minx