I wouldn't start with chicken, if you're not sure how to use it. That's just salmonella waiting to happen.

I have all sorts of appliances and gadgets in my kitchen cabinets, but I'm not really a gadget person. (People give them to me.) An electric whisk that needs to much cleaning it's quicker to do it by hand. An electric milk whisk for frothy coffee - I drink mine black. Something that I think is a blender. A mandoline slicer - which, what, and how did it get there, I have no memory of it at all, still less any need to slice a mandoline ...

Come to think of it, I have a rice steamer for the microwave, which is no quicker or more convenient than just boiling it.