RICE COOKER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rice cooker provided with functions of cooking a cake and cooking with steam which fragrantly and uniformly bakes the whole surface of the cake without drying in cooking of the cake and which steams food material well without making it watery in a short time in cooking with steam. SOLUTION: The rice cooker is provided with: a bottom induction coil 3 for heating a pot 2; a lid 8 for covering an opening at the upper surface of the pot 2; a steaming device 15; and a steam heating device for heating the steam to a temperature equal to or higher than the boiling point of water. By controlling cooking in accordance with cake and steaming cooking processes, the rice cooker fragrantly and uniformly bakes the whole surface of the cake without drying in cake cooking and which steams the food material well without making it watery in a short time in cooking with steam. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI