We've got this cheap egg cooker that plays the loudest, most terrifying alarm you've ever heard when it's done cooking. My wife requested that I make it "less aggressive" so I hacked it into the most gentle egg cooker of ALL TIME
(warning: probably loud)
@Craigp @gvy_dvpont not much thought goes in designing cheap chinese products, you know they don’t make stuff to be good.
A Japanese rice cooker does this:
(I think everyone should have a zojirushi rice cooker at home)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LTp5ua5LPtg&pp=ygUbem9qaXJ1c2hpIHJpY2UgY29va2VyIHNvdW5k
I'm going to guess that the alarm was motivated by someone who always forgot that they had eggs cooking and wound up coming back from the yard/basement/garage to find the eggpocalypse.
This is why I bought my wife a whistling teapot.
@reconbot @MLE_online @timonsku
A) i absolutely love this solution
B) the engineer who made that alarm, & the manager(s) that approved it should all be fired.
C) one of my favorite features of my Zojirushi rice cooker is that it plays Twinkle Twinkle Little Star to let you know it's done. ❤️
I have a roughly 30 year old version of this one https://www.zojirushi.com/app/product/nslgc
I think the only thing that's changed on this model is the tint of the metal. ;)
I love it so much, but I will admit to being tempted by the unnecessarily awesome $$$ ones they have. Alas, i was tempted by a CNC more, so that's not going to happen. ;)
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@MLE_online Ah... i see. You have friends who come over to eat with you. ;)
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@MLE_online oh.
Yeah, that's a good use too. I tend to make large quantites of rice when making batches of dog food, but I'm so used to doing it with my wee 3 cup one that I forget i could just get a bigger one.
Are you crazy? In what world would that be a good sound to wake up to?!
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE THE EGG IS COMING OH GOD WE SHOULD HAVE LISTENED WHY DID WE NOT PREPARE FOR THE EGG
@gvy_dvpont
You have won the internet today! 🏆
EGGGGGGGGGGG!
@iris First of all, obligatory: please be careful!! Don't go digging while the device is plugged in. What I did was kinda dangerous TBH (not sure what your comfort level is with electronics, just making sure).
Most alarms/buzzers I've ever seen are round/black with a hole in the middle:
Rocketdonut
Guy Dupont
Frank Skornia
Craig P
Dutch Investor
Arniepix
James Blanding
naught101
Mark Whybird
Emily Velasco
Timon 🛠
Francis 🏴☠️ Gulotta
masukomi
small, primitive, wingless
Not a Spring Onion
JWcph, Radicalized By Decency
Mildly Amusing Bored Housewife
lorddimwit is now @
Pablo Masegoso
Fixstern
stevenray
Bill the Galactic Hero
Nabor
Mr. Bruno 
Dr. Sobek
Bart Veldhuizen 🚀
The Animal and the Machine
Borris
Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦
lebrubru
Schafstelze 🎗🖤
Mirko Schenk
Ambient Sponge
Steve Purcell
Ben
Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)
Rik D'huyvetters
Will
Alexandre Sicard
IDee