What is an induction heating pressure rice cooker?
After all of the advances in rice cooking
technology, the most advanced method that's been developed recently is that
of the induction heating system. Induction heating uses a method of cooking
rice that is even more technologically advanced that fuzzy logic, able to
heat rice in layers using magnetic pulses that warm food and easily adjust
to changes in temperature.
Induction heating (IH) is currently the most
advanced rice cooking system available. As of yet, no other type of advanced
electronics has been able to match both its accuracy and its rice cooking
ability. Yet even though IH has become the leading technology used to cook
rice, there are always ways to improve this technology to make rice cooking
even better.
One of those ways is the IH Pressure Rice Cooker –
these rice cookers use the same IH power, but combine it with pressure
cooking for faster, tastier rice. The benefits of adding pressure cooking to
the IH technology is:
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Pressure cooking technology helps
evenly distribute heat, both speeding up the cooking process and ensuring
that all surface area of the rice is the same temperature.
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Pressure cooking has the ability to
make the rice “dance” in the pan, which keeps the rice moving, thus
improving the cooking process.
The main benefit is of course the much faster
cooking time, IH pressure cookers have an incredibly quick cooking speed,
because heat does not escape due to the vacuum effect inside of the pot. But
each grain also cooks more evenly as well. The “dancing” that occurs inside
of the pot makes it possible for the heat and water to completely surround
each rice grain, allowing it to get the perfect amount of heat – and
controlling the heat throughout the cooking process.
Induction heating pressure rice cookers are
currently considered the top of the line rice cooker models. Even the most
expensive rice cooker in the world – the Sanyo ECJ Series – is an IH
pressure rice cooker, as there is no other, better technology available on
the market today.
Price and Advancement
These types of rice cookers are not cheap – in
fact, you’d be hard pressed to find a good one for under 400 dollars. They
are only manufactured by the best brands in the industry, with Zojirushi and
Sanyo (which has since been bought out by Panasonic) being the only two
brands that create a large quantity of these types of rice cooking machines.
Toshiba also has an IH pressure cooker of its own, but their brand is harder
to locate and they do not produce many different models and are not widely
available on the market.
Though IH pressure rice cookers have in some ways
been around for a while, they still represent the last great technological
advancement in rice cooking. Though some type of cooking system may overtake
it within the next few years, chances are that the IH pressure system will
continue to be the top name in rice cooking electronics for at least the
next decade or more.
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