Well, don't panic.At least your auto cooker can make tea. Ours can only make something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
Yeah... well, if all of them combine most of their salaries, maybe one day they will scramble enough for a single Iron Chef automatic cooker.These guys are gonna mutiny into the mercenary life, with the rallying cry, "For Tetsujin!"
Reminds me of a friend i had who got talked into buying a slow cooker for the office instead of a microwave. Everytime anyone would ask, why'd you have an unused slow cooker instead of a microwave, their head would just drop to their hands as they said shit like, I don't know but i know i we can do a lot more with a slow cooker over a microwave, and the more junior member would just keep laughing cause they got them to buy it over a microwave knowing this would now become a thing they would have to explain everytime someone looks for a microwave to heat food.
I'd think it has to do with the after care of it. Use it and now you have to be the one to clean it, worse yet if it accumulates dirt in the whole oven casing, gonna have to be you or become the office asshole. So just use the dinky toaster and have nice toasted bread with a thing people are more accepting to be a little messy/ permissibly dirtier cause of how much harder it woulb be to clean.I don't know why but this story brought back this story of this one time when I randomly bought a cheap simple 4-slice toaster for the office breakroom so I could toast the bagels that management brought in for Bagels Fridays. Then several months down someone decided to one up the toaster with a fancy toaster oven. I remember him talking to my manager about all the fancy feature of the toaster oven. People still preferred to use that cheap toaster over the toaster oven. Not that it never got used but people waited for the toaster over having to use the toaster oven for some reason.