A rice cooker or rice steamer is an automated kitchen appliance designed to boil or steam rice. It consists of a heat source, a cooking bowl, and a thermostat. The thermostat measures the temperature
Traditional rice cooker commonly used by people of Indonesia in the Netherlands in 1950s. Showcase on display at the Eurasian festival Tong Tong Fair 2012.
A 1956 advertisement for Toshiba's world's first automatic electric rice cooker, priced at 3,200 yen and capable of cooking 900 grams (2.0 lb) of rice
A typical commercial gas cooker. To use it, the left lever is depressed to ignite the pilot burner for standby and keep-warm purposes. To start cooking, the right lever is pushed to operate the main burner, which is ignited by the pilot burner. Like its electric counterpart, the cook lever releases automatically once the rice is fully cooked.
The ge is a traditional Chinese unit of volume equal to 1/10 sheng. Its Korean equivalent is the hop and its Japanese equivalent is the gō.
Rice cooker
…the resting phase. Rice cookers are usually sold with a rice paddle and a measuring cup included. The measuring cup is typically 180 ml or roughly one gō, a traditional Japanese unit of volume. More advanced cookers may use fuzzy logic for more detailed temperature control, induction rather than resistive…
A 1-gō masu, a wooden box used for measuring portions of rice or sake