RICE COOKER

• Main Authors: TAMAKI MASAKO, NAKAE SATOSHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 21.12.1999
• Edition: 6
• Subjects: APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES; CHEMISTRY; COFFEE MILLS; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; FURNITURE; HUMAN NECESSITIES; KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; METALLURGY; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES; TREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To promote water absorption and gelatinization of starch existing in rice albumen cells to reduce the rice cooking time by specifying the pH of water used in cooking rice. SOLUTION: Rice and water are put in a rice cooking pot 12, and sodium hydrogencarbonate is added from a re...