Rice cooker is using cooker of electrical energy into heat energy, easy to use, clean sanitation, but also has in the food steaming, boiling, stewing, heating and other operating functions. To master the following some usages, not only can ensure rice may be sweet, but also can save energy and ensure the rice cooker used for a long time.
1. Before cooking rice, it is best to wash the rice and soak it in clear water for about 15 minutes before putting it into the pan. This can greatly shorten the cooking time and the cooked rice is especially fragrant.
2. Make full use of waste heat of electric heating plate. When boiled rice soup in a rice cooker, can shut off the power switch 8 to 10 minutes, make full use of the waste heat of electric heating plate before electricity. When the red light, yellow light electric rice cooker, said the pot rice is cooked, then can be shut off the power switch, use of electric heating plate heat insulation about 10 minutes.
3. Rice cooker do not as a electric kettle. The same power of rice cooker and electric kettle also burn a thermos of hot water, electric kettle just 5-6 minutes, while the electric rice cooker to about 20 minutes.
4. The peak power is one of the best power saving method. The same power of rice cooker, when the voltage is lower than the rating of 10%, will be expected to extend time 12%, electricity peak when had better not use or use less.
5. Keep outside the inner pot and outer pot clean. Rice cooker is used for a long time and not clean in time, can make the bottom of the pot inside and outside surface of a layer of oxide, should dip it in the water, with a rough cloth to wipe, until bared metal color luster.
6. Inside bottom of the pot with electric heating plate, inner pot and the lid shall maintain the best contact. If the inner pot deformation, i.e., concave inside or convex outside, all can affect the bottom of the pot of good contact, should be timely indicates good.
7. After using the rice cooker on the desktop best preserved at ordinary times, prevent the dust of the ground into the bottom of the rice cooker, also should not put rice cooker in the kitchen or easy to water splash into the place, so as not to affect use safety of the rice cooker. Should also ensure that, in use process between the mould and electrothermal tray cleaning, avoid water points, grain and other sundry, this will influence cook effect, serious may burn out components.
8. After buying a high-power electric rice cooker, do not let it and other appliances share a socket, it will lead to socket capacity is not enough, make the power cord temperature is exorbitant, produce risk.
9. Rice cooker after use, must remember to pull off the plug from the socket, usually rice cooker has automatic heat preservation function, plugged in, even if not in the condition of cooking, electric rice cooker will at heat preservation condition, cause waste of electricity.