February 3, 2021
#2420: Appliances explain
[The comic is laid out like a grid, with usages for common household appliances the left-hand side (Make toast / Wash dishes / Cook a frozen dinner / Wash clothes / Cook eggs / Dry clothes) and appliances for these activities across the top (Toaster / Dishwasher / Microwave / Washing machine / Stove/oven / Dryer). The grid illustrates the “match-ups”, with a green square denoting a “correct” match-up, a yellow square denoting something that may work somewhat, and a red square denoting something that most certainly won’t work.]
[From the top left corner, going from left to right, top to bottom, with each first item being on its own line in the grid, the images in the squares are as follows:]
*Make toast with a Toaster: Green square, toasted toast with stripe pattern.
*Make toast with a Dishwasher: Red square, slightly broken soggy toast in a puddle of water.
*Make toast with a Microwave: Red square, non-toasted and unevenly burnt toast.
*Make toast with a Washing machine: Red square, a few small soggy pieces of toast in a puddle of water.
*Make toast with a Stove/oven: Green square, toasted toast with somewhat irregular pattern.
*Make toast with a Dryer: Red square, large pile of breadcrumbs.
*Wash dishes with a Toaster: Red square, intact glass, somewhat bent fork, and slightly cracked and sooty plate.
*Wash dishes with a Dishwasher: Green square, clean glass, fork, and plate.
*Wash dishes with a Microwave: Red square, slightly broken glass, intact fork, and sooty plate.
*Wash dishes with a Washing machine: Red square, broken glass, intact fork, broken plate.
*Wash dishes with a Stove/oven: Yellow square, Text reading “Sterilized, at least” with an arrow beneath it pointing at a slightly cracked glass, intact fork, and sooty and cracked plate.
*Wash dishes with a Dryer: Red square, a large pile of broken porcelain and glass with part of a fork sticking out of it.
*Cook a frozen dinner with a Toaster: Red square, badly burnt food box emitting smoke.
*Cook a frozen dinner with a Dishwasher: Yellow square, Text reading “Fish might be cooked” with an arrow beneath it pointing at a food box two-thirds filled with water.
*Cook a frozen dinner with a Microwave: Green square, cooked food box.
*Cook a frozen dinner with a Washing machine: Red square, crumpled food box two-thirds filled with water.
*Cook a frozen dinner with a Stove/oven: Green square, sideways view of steaming cooked food box with lid removed.
*Cook a frozen dinner with a Dryer: Red square, open crumpled food box with burnt edges. Burnt food stuck to the panel’s borders.
*Wash clothes with a Toaster: Red square, smoking T-shirt with large stripe-shaped burns and flames rising from the top.
*Wash clothes with a Dishwasher: Yellow square, unevenly wet/washed shirt.
*Wash clothes with a Microwave: Red square, slightly smoking shirt with spread-out burns and some flame on one sleeve.
*Wash clothes with a Washing machine: Green square, clean wet shirt.
*Wash clothes with a Stove/oven: Red square, shirt with a large semi-burned area.
*Wash clothes with a Dryer: Yellow square, slightly dirty-looking shirt.
*Cook eggs with a Toaster: Red square, toaster emitting a huge cloud of dense smoke.
*Cook eggs with a Dishwasher: Red square, slightly cracked eggs in a puddle of some kind.
*Cook eggs with a Microwave: Green square, egg in egg cup with text “(Poached)” beneath.
*Cook eggs with a Washing machine: Red square, eggshell fragments in a puddle, presumably the egg.
*Cook eggs with a Stove/oven: Green square, fried egg with beans on a plate.
*Cook eggs with a Dryer: Red square, a pile of eggshell dust, and possibly scrambled eggs.
*Dry clothes with a Toaster: Red square, mostly wet shirt, with parts in the middle being somewhat dry. Smaller stripe-shaped burns.
*Dry clothes with a Dishwasher: Red square, entirely wet shirt.
*Dry clothes with a Microwave: Yellow square, dry shirt with smaller burns.
*Dry clothes with a Washing machine: Red square, wet shirt.
*Dry clothes with a Stove/oven: Yellow square, dry shirt with small burn-like patches.
*Dry clothes with a Dryer: Green square, dry shirt.