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Besides rice cooking function, electric rice cooker can be used for processing grains, making porridge, stewing, making soup, boiling soft-boiled eggs, baking sweet cakes, making round bread, tofu pudding...
1. Tips for choosing a versatile rice cooker for balanced nutrition
Conventional electric rice cookers cook rice by electric resistance heating, thus consuming more energy due to large amount of heat dissipation. Meanwhile, multi-functional electric rice cookers cook by pressure and recycled steam, resulting in quick and energy-efficient rice cooking.
Users should opt for models with steam lock valves to create a sealed environment: recycled steam forms high-pressure steam to steam rice, enhancing rice's sweetness. Additionally, consider using 360-degree multidirectional heat technology products, ensuring even and strong heat distribution, preventing rice grains from breaking and ensuring uniform, fragrant, and delicious rice for up to 24 hours after cooking.
To fully utilize an electric rice cooker for cooking various dishes such as porridge, stew, soup, poached pink eggs, making sweet cakes, baking round bread, tofu pudding..., a multi-functional electric rice cooker with integrated automatic control panel and smart cooking timer is the ideal choice. Another note when buying a multi-functional electric rice cooker lies in choosing the appropriate capacity. A 0.54-liter capacity is suitable for families of one to three people. Meanwhile, cookers with 1-liter and 1.8-liter capacities serve 6 to 10 meals.
Assessing the durability of an electric rice cooker, the material of the inner pot is an important criterion. Premium brands often choose special materials for the inner pot. For example, Toshiba applies a durable Fluorocarbon resin non-stick coating, which can be used for a long time.
Toshiba's multi-functional electric rice cooker is also designed as a compact, round, and sturdy unit. The 60-degree inclined pot bottom helps evenly distribute heat, promoting water circulation while cooking, resulting in fragrant, fluffy rice. The steam release vent and inner lid are detachable for easy cleaning.
