The Long Life of Wooden Rice Paddle This morning, the children told me that the whole rice in the big rice cooker was burned to black. The metal coil inside the rice cooker was melted. It became totally unused. The reason was that its power switch always came up, so a person here used the end of the wooden rice paddle to press it permanently down, so it was pressed throughout the night. The rice was supposed for the next morning breakfast and lunch. Why don’t we cook the rice in the early morning? We wake up at 4 am, and the electricity failure was around that time. So there might not be enough time for the rice to be cooked at all for breakfast at 6am. The electricity sometimes comes only at 9am. So people commonly have to cook the rice late at night. But the person who used the wooden rice paddle to press down the switch button was very sleepy and busy with other tasks, so she had forgotten to remove it. So the rice cooker was turned up permanently, and its auto switch off...
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