A Few Remarks about Instant Pot
Dec. 30th, 2017 09:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutI wrote this over a week ago and have been meaning to post it (I've been trying to catch up on Posts I've Been Meaning to Make today).
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/17/business/instant-pot.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share
This year, I bought a lot of my friends and family an Instant Pot. It seemed to me like the Cabbage Patch doll for adults for 2017 and I wanted in on that sweet, sweet fad present. It did not hurt that I had bought one for myself and then promptly gotten rid of the very small zojirushi rice cooker (because the IP did just as good a job cooking really tiny am ounts of rice), the stovetop pressure cooker which only Roland every felt safe about using, and two crock pots that I got out at most once or twice a year. (I bought people who didn’t want or who already had an IP an air fryer. I feel like the air fryer is a lot closer to 1992’s reboot of Baby Alive than it is to Cabbage Patch of yesteryear, but I don’t really know.)
Even if I never used my Instant Pot again, it has paid for its space on my counter by making it so easy for me to get rid of so many other appliances.
The NYT article above is about the inventor of IP, Robert Wang, and how he came to create the IP, and how it became a bestseller. Basically, Amazon, for that latter part, but also, influencers. So, yeah, you have just proven you understand how brand development works in the mid teens. Clever you. I am excited to learn from this article that Wang intends to take his appliance development cred elsewhere in the kitchen, by adding sensors and what have you to other appliances. It couldn’t happen soon enough.
Robert, if you are reading, here is my short list of things I want:
burners that notice there is nothing on top of them and automatically turn off. If they are not great at detecting there is nothing on top of them, they could ask.
Oven that notices there is nothing in them after preheating has completed, and 30 more minutes has passed. If they are not great at detecting that there is nothing in them, they could ask before automatically shutting down.
App and Alexa and so forth integration for all appliances.
A fridge / freezer that notices that the door didn’t close all the way and just fucking closes it for you.
Everything that has a filter that needs to be replaced periodically should have a really good, flexible way of telling you that. It could text me or send me email, or it could have integrated reordering of the appropriate filter on amazon.
Something that ensures that a dishwasher with dirty dishes in it that is unattended for multiple days does something OTHER than just letting everything mold (vacation mode, settable from a distance)
These are all basically safety features. There are more: integrated I’m Leaking sensors for anything connected to water. Basically, if it makes it into the troubleshooting table, it should be better.
As for the NYT author: what do you MEAN RIP George Foreman? Those grills are alive and well. I have friends who still love the one they own from Back In the Day. And you can still buy lots of versions of them. On Amazon.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/17/business/instant-pot.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share
This year, I bought a lot of my friends and family an Instant Pot. It seemed to me like the Cabbage Patch doll for adults for 2017 and I wanted in on that sweet, sweet fad present. It did not hurt that I had bought one for myself and then promptly gotten rid of the very small zojirushi rice cooker (because the IP did just as good a job cooking really tiny am ounts of rice), the stovetop pressure cooker which only Roland every felt safe about using, and two crock pots that I got out at most once or twice a year. (I bought people who didn’t want or who already had an IP an air fryer. I feel like the air fryer is a lot closer to 1992’s reboot of Baby Alive than it is to Cabbage Patch of yesteryear, but I don’t really know.)
Even if I never used my Instant Pot again, it has paid for its space on my counter by making it so easy for me to get rid of so many other appliances.
The NYT article above is about the inventor of IP, Robert Wang, and how he came to create the IP, and how it became a bestseller. Basically, Amazon, for that latter part, but also, influencers. So, yeah, you have just proven you understand how brand development works in the mid teens. Clever you. I am excited to learn from this article that Wang intends to take his appliance development cred elsewhere in the kitchen, by adding sensors and what have you to other appliances. It couldn’t happen soon enough.
Robert, if you are reading, here is my short list of things I want:
burners that notice there is nothing on top of them and automatically turn off. If they are not great at detecting there is nothing on top of them, they could ask.
Oven that notices there is nothing in them after preheating has completed, and 30 more minutes has passed. If they are not great at detecting that there is nothing in them, they could ask before automatically shutting down.
App and Alexa and so forth integration for all appliances.
A fridge / freezer that notices that the door didn’t close all the way and just fucking closes it for you.
Everything that has a filter that needs to be replaced periodically should have a really good, flexible way of telling you that. It could text me or send me email, or it could have integrated reordering of the appropriate filter on amazon.
Something that ensures that a dishwasher with dirty dishes in it that is unattended for multiple days does something OTHER than just letting everything mold (vacation mode, settable from a distance)
These are all basically safety features. There are more: integrated I’m Leaking sensors for anything connected to water. Basically, if it makes it into the troubleshooting table, it should be better.
As for the NYT author: what do you MEAN RIP George Foreman? Those grills are alive and well. I have friends who still love the one they own from Back In the Day. And you can still buy lots of versions of them. On Amazon.
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Date: 2018-01-09 01:47 am (UTC)