I got a rice steamer for Christmas

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11. If it's too warm to cook in the kitchen here, there will be bugs

Or serious humidity both of which I have problems with. I live in Florida where we've just now dropped below the 80s for daytime temperatures. I'm hoping for a frost this week to kill off some of the bugs that have been tormenting me and the horses.

I do like some of my small appliances that let me avoid heating up the large appliances. But my electric cooktop doesn't heat up the kitchen much so that wouldn't be a reason to move to a rice cooker.

I'm 50/50 on whether or not to keep the thing. I guess I better read the box and the instructions to see if those will tempt me to try it. I'd just as soon leave it in the box so I can re-gift it. If I use it, it be donated to some group.

As much as anything I have a resistance to yet another device. Hmm - maybe it would make a nice gift to a young friend who is going off to college next fall. When I lived in the dorm I cooked a lot of meals with an electric skillet and an iron (with aluminum foil you can make a great grilled cheese sandwich with an iron). A steamer could be just the thing for her to cook inexpensive, healthy meals!