Slow cooker/rice cooker question. I have a standard Cuisinart rice cooker and I've heard it said that you can cook other things in it as well, so my question is, can I use it as a slow cooker, in other words, will any slow cooker recipes turn out just as well in a rice cooker? If so, please share them with me!
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posted by Jubey
on Oct 28, 2009 -
11 answers
Help! I upgraded to snow leopard and now my internet is painfully slow. A quick google search shows i'm not the only one, but the only fix I can find (to do with the firewall) doesn't help me as I don't have firewall on. There seems to be no difference between Safari and Firefox. I'm seriously considering using time machine to get back to Leopard days.
As an example, pre snow leopard, a speed test measured at 1.83mb/s download, 0.16mb/s upload and 41ms latency, speed test just now says 0.46mb/s, 0.24mb/s upload and 51ms latency.
Therefore it looks like my upload speed has improved by my download has taken a dial up style kicking. As I don't upload anything very often, I don't care about any improvement in this area.
Can anyone assist? I'm running a January 2009 macbook if that helps.
posted by nunoidia
on Sep 17, 2009 -
7 answers
Why did my laptop (Vista) started slowing down dramatically for no reason? This is after I rebooted (many times), and turned off half the startup programs, ran anti-virus programs and AdAware.
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posted by moiraine
on Aug 21, 2009 -
15 answers
I have read conflicting reviews about cooking boneless skinless chicken breast in a slow cooker. I will be making apricot chicken in the crock pot tomorrow. The recipe calls for a chicken cut into serving size pieces. I am using boneless skinless chicken breast instead. How long do you usually cook it on low? The recipe says 3-8 hours. Pretty wide berth there. Any tips?
posted by MayNicholas
on Jul 27, 2009 -
11 answers
What is causing my Qwest DSL internet connection to get slow several times a day. Unplugging the router fixes the problem temporarily.
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posted by dan g.
on Jul 16, 2009 -
5 answers
My 5 year old dell laptop (8600) has suddenly lost processor speed. Techy details after the break...
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posted by merocet
on May 22, 2009 -
9 answers
Is there software or some automated method to audit the entire startup process of a Windows XP computer to find why startup is slow?
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posted by joshrholloway
on May 15, 2009 -
11 answers
Looking for an old commercial - old lady and man, driving really slow in the country - the man is driving and she yells at him "you're driving like a bat out of hell!" Does anyone remember the company the commercial was for?
posted by Shakes the Clown
on Dec 29, 2008 -
4 answers
New relationship filter - ex-semi-drama queen here, how do i keep this going, slow and steady and not rush in?
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posted by anonymous
on Nov 28, 2008 -
9 answers
My toilet is flushing slowly. Sometimes it takes 3+ flushes to completely remove waste.
I have completely replaced all of the internals, and tried the CLR method. I have even manually cleared out the return / fill holes. It has helped some, but not enough.
I think I need to use something stronger than CLR, like muriatic acid.
The problem is I am on a septic tank and everything I read says do not use the muriatic acid method if you are on septic as it will kill all of the beneficial bacteria in the septic tank.
So, my thoughts are to use the muriatic acid to clean out the bowl, but before the first flush, use baking soda to neutralize the acid as much as possible. Then flush. After about a week, add some RidX to help restore some of the lost bacteria and after another week or so, add another box of RidX.
Is this a sound plan or should I abandon the muriatic acid idea completely?
posted by twistedmetal
on Sep 15, 2008 -
17 answers
Some YouTube videos download *painfully* slow (5-12kb/s) while others will stream just fine near 200kb/s. I've had friends try and watch the videos that are trouble for me, and they work for them. Can anybody else confirm these problems? Is there a certain YouTube server that Verizon is throttling in Philadelphia, or is it just a routing problem?
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posted by excitementMD
on Sep 5, 2008 -
6 answers
One particular Mac on my home network is experiencing really slow internet connectivity. I have tried a lot of different stuff so far...
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posted by scarabic
on Aug 15, 2008 -
10 answers
I have some sort of malware on my Dell that constantly redirects me away from where I desire to go. Specifically, it seems to prevent Gmail from working. Also prevents any major search site from loading. Always redirects to some idiotic ad site.
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posted by Arquimedez Pozo
on Jul 20, 2008 -
18 answers
What are some good - or bad - similes for slowness? (Like "As slow as molasses in January" but not so archaic.)
posted by Fuzzy Skinner
on Jul 16, 2008 -
40 answers
I use a Gateway laptop with Firefox but Firefox is running incredibly slowly. I've done virus scans and so on but Firefox is still having problems. Anyone got a remedy?
posted by josher71
on Mar 7, 2008 -
14 answers
Vista hangs while switching to/from Secure Desktop after Windows Update installed a new sound driver. Please help me fix it.
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posted by AstroGuy
on Mar 6, 2008 -
3 answers
Help me, my mac is running slow! I have a theory that this relates to not utilizing the full amount of memory that is available.
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posted by hazyspring
on Jan 12, 2008 -
23 answers
My Mac PB takes about 10 minutes to start up and then another 5 to load mac mail or safari. Am I about to crash?
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posted by pman78
on Oct 22, 2007 -
16 answers
Jumpy mouse in one screen. My mouse pointer does not refresh fast enough in one screen but is fine in second screen.
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posted by rainy
on Aug 25, 2007 -
7 answers
Why is my brand-new router massively slowing my Internet connection, even when everything's connected with cables?
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posted by escabeche
on Jul 12, 2007 -
7 answers
The task manager on my WIndows XP SP2 box shows 100% CPU usage constantly. Whenever I'm not doing anything actually resource intensive (like using Firefox, sigh), "System" uses up 80-90% of the CPU. This is not normal
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posted by signal
on Jul 6, 2007 -
9 answers
I just got DSL broadband and, while it is the slowest of AT&T's 3 levels of speed, it still is only a bit faster than the old dialup. A test using a borrowed laptop on the same phone line was much faster, so something is slowing things down in my PC, but what? Processor is old and slow, at 400Mhz, 375mb ram, 4 gigs hd free space, Win ME, running MSIE and Opera browsers. My desktop has about 100+ items on it. Could this be my problem?
posted by fkeese
on Jul 1, 2007 -
26 answers
Apache Filter: Why are my downloads so slow from my web server running Apache?
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posted by mjger
on Mar 22, 2007 -
9 answers
So it's come to this - I see no other option than to ask a "help me fix my PC" question. After some troubleshooting the STOP errors seem to have been resolved, XP now boots successfully but is excruciating slow to the point of being unusable. Details and specs below the fold.
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posted by goodnewsfortheinsane
on Mar 4, 2007 -
25 answers
As of two weeks ago, my (entirely legal) Soulseek downloads won't go any faster than exactly 4.1 k/s. If I download more than one file at a time, they'll each go at 2 k/s; four at a time go at 1 k/s each; any more than that and they all fail. My internet is otherwise speedy and the relevant ports are forwarded. Why is this happening to me? What have I done wrong?
posted by stammer
on Sep 24, 2006 -
6 answers
This toilet has been good to me. However, it has become so slow in flushing that it barely flushes at all.
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posted by snsranch
on Jul 26, 2006 -
6 answers
My six month old Dell laptop (WIN XP) has started taking forever shutting down. It seems sometimes like five minutes or more. I recently switched from wireless broadband to Telco ISPs which I suspect may have something to do with the problem. I've done Ad-aware, found some stuff I removed but it doesn't solve the problem. Can anyone suggest what the pblm might be and how I can fix it without spending a lot of precious cash?
posted by NorthCoastCafe
on Jul 12, 2006 -
9 answers
My computer has been laggy since I got my dual-dvi card...anything left to do that I haven't tried?
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posted by Sonic_Molson
on May 13, 2006 -
16 answers
