Korean Rice cooker. RRP is $699 but you can find it for $649 pretty much everywhere. $500 seems like a good price. Kind of an impulse buy really as our rice cooker is still going strong but we've always wanted a good Korean rice cooker. Less worried about running into any issues buying from Costco. Looks like you can buy the inner bowl easily too from Cuckoo's website which is handy.
IH rice/pressure cookers are also classified as pressure cookers. All pressure cookers basically build pressure inside the pot to cook food. This process enables the rice cooker to reach a higher boiling point than when it is at a standard pressure (1 atm/105 Pa->100 degrees Celsius). Pressure cookers can reach 120 to 150 degrees Celsius. IH rice/pressure cookers build more pressure and thus have higher boiling point than a conventional pressure rice cooker. IH pressure cookers use induction heating technology (induction coils build electromagnetic induction to heat up the whole stainless steel inner pot), whereas conventional pressure cookers use a heating pan to heat up the inner pot.
The rice cookers can reach higher boiling points. Not only does it reach a higher boiling point, but it shortens the time of cooking. When food/grain is cooked at higher heat within a short time, the food becomes softer and tender. As the whole inner pot (bottom and sides) is heated up instead of only bottom of the inner pot (conventional rice/pressure cookers use a heat pan on the bottom), the rice is more evenly cooked. This is what makes the Cuckoo very popular in international markets.
This product features:
- Voice guide function: 3 Languages, Korean, Chinese and English
- High Pressure Mode Cooking / Non-Pressure Mode Cooking
- Induction Heating
- Inner Pot: Diamond Coating
- Inner Pot: Stainless Steel
- Manual instructions (recipe included), stainless steaming rack, scoop, measuring cup
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