before tl: had to kill the rice cooker to empty it?

And that's my pet peeve with these newfangled rice cookers; everything (including the locking catch) is sealed into the entire unit, making manual extraction impossible if the button latch breaks or fails.

Back in our parents' days, the lid was its own separate piece thus making it impossible to ever encounter such issues. And the older all-in-one cookers would have the locking catch situated outside the shell; should the button latch ever fail, one could simply break off the catch and subsequently use heat resistant tape to secure the lid closed for future cookings.

But these modern ones? Hmmph, good luck trying to break open the plastic (or in some cases, metal) outer shell and destroying the entire unit in the process.

Etnaz said:

And that's my pet peeve with these newfangled rice cookers; everything (including the locking catch) is sealed into the entire unit, making manual extraction impossible if the button latch breaks or fails.

Back in our parents' days, the lid was its own separate piece thus making it impossible to ever encounter such issues. And the older all-in-one cookers would have the locking catch situated outside the shell; should the button latch ever fail, one could simply break off the catch and subsequently use heat resistant tape to secure the lid closed for future cookings.

But these modern ones? Hmmph, good luck trying to break open the plastic (or in some cases, metal) outer shell and destroying the entire unit in the process.

That's went some people prefer the two part style which has a separate lid, like the old fashioned ones do, no latch involved.

The only reader-added tag for now is "The resurrected case of the unopening door".

Also, Commentary translation (and any other function operated via dialog box) is currently not working, so that'll have to wait.

And it seems to be fixed.

Jarlath said:

That's went some people prefer the two part style which has a separate lid, like the old fashioned ones do, no latch involved.

"If it breaks, they'll repair it" is, of course, immensely less profitable than "if it breaks, they'll buy another one."

gonzomehum said:

"If it breaks, they'll repair it" is, of course, immensely less profitable than "if it breaks, they'll buy another one."

I don't like the lid attached to the unit at all.

"If it loses the lid that lets it work, we'll sell them a replacement part" works too.