Kitchen appliances after rounds and rounds of updates, has emerged a lot of happiness products. When it comes to happiness, many people's first reaction may be dishwashers and garbage disposals, in fact, there is such an appliance that we use every day may be overlooked, and it is no less happy than the first two. It - is the rice cooker.
I remember twenty years ago, my parents' generation of rice cookers were still using open-flame pressure cookers, followed by electric rice cookers, and the rice cooker itself has been upgraded in a variety of ways, in addition to cooking, but also to complete the process of making soup and even cakes. However, there are still many differences between different rice cookers in terms of function and effect, this article combines a few rice cookers/pressure cookers that have been used at home to share some of my insights.
Let's start with some of the pain points that have bothered me before.
1, for ordinary rice cookers, the rice is not soft enough, the soup is not thorough enough, which is one of our main pain points before.
2, the open fire pressure cooker can be a perfect solution to the problem of soup and stew, but after all, the open fire, our main pain point is the safety, and the history of the news we have seen is not a few.
It is also because of these pain points, prompted me to rice cooker for a number of upgrades, is currently using the Daewoo electric pressure cooker, which is a collection of rice cooker and pressure cooker dual-function, two-in-one product is still more popular. The previous owner used a Nepal IH rice cooker, because it is an old model has been removed from the shelves, here will not put the link.
Most people on the IH rice cooker should have some understanding, compared to the ordinary rice cooker, it has a "micro-pressure" function, to do out of the upgraded ingredients, the taste will be better, but micro-pressure after all is a micro-pressure, for the stewing of these processes, it is far from being enough, the Daewoo Electric Pressure Cooker can be very good solution to the problem of stewing meat, its pressure although not as good as that of the Ming Ming Dynasty. The problem is that its pressure is not as high as that of an open-flame pressure cooker, but it is much higher than the micro-pressure of an IH rice cooker.
Some people may have questions, two-in-one products will not both do not enough in place, in fact, good? Below I compare through multiple aspects, to give you some reference, I hope to let you have an intuitive understanding.
Price, open-flame pressure cooker is the cheapest, most of the products currently on sale in the market are concentrated in the price range of 99 yuan to 399 yuan, relatively still very cheap.
Ordinary rice cooker here but not too much detail, IH rice cooker price range is mainly concentrated in the 299 yuan ~ 999 yuan, in addition, some imported high-end brands even reached two or three thousand price. Take the original Nepal IH rice cooker, the price of 599 in the IH is a middle level.
Electric pressure cooker, the price range is concentrated in 199 yuan ~ 499 yuan.
Electric rice cooker + electric pressure cooker dual-use products, is not common on the market, to Daewoo as an example, the daily activity price of 699 yuan. Because of the lack of comparative brands, I follow the table above rice cooker center number 650 + electric pressure cooker center number 350 to calculate, buy two need almost 1000 yuan, then in fact, Daewoo the price of this product is not expensive.
The main comparison is between the Nepal IH rice cooker and the Daewoo 2-in-1 electric pressure cooker. Overall both have the same kinds of accessories, including the body and liner, as well as the pots and pans.
But there's one big difference between the two, and that's the liner. The Nepal IH cooker uses the popular "ball kettle" liner, which is designed to heat more evenly. The design is more uniform. The Daewoo adopts the innovative "double pot", which can be used alternately, and largely prevents scratches.
Some people may say, "What's the point of a double boiler? Not more space, the owner of their own feelings to analyze.
In the past, whether we are cooking rice, cooking soup or stewing meat, we use the same pot gall bladder, such high frequency use, coupled with the traditional rice cooker pot gall bladder has a coating, so the problem of scratching is inevitable. In addition, there is a big problem, that is, the string of flavor, just imagine, eating a meal out of the meat flavor, eating meat out of the flavor of salvia, that is a very strange feeling.
Dual pot liner, a good solution to these problems.
Cooking rice with a coated potbelly, in addition to non-stick pan, heatability is also better; with stainless steel potbelly to stew meat and cook soup, perfectly avoiding the embarrassment of bones scratching the inner wall of the potbelly. And this partitioned use, completely does not skewer the flavor, and the cooked flavor will be more pure.
The inner wall of the potbellies, their details are done in place, and in the past you need to measure a cup or finger to measure the water level line is different, the inner wall of the scale line has now become a rice cooker standard. It is very convenient to put as much rice as you want, and just store water to as high a level as you want.
From the material point of view, the two are also the same, are using food-grade 304 stainless steel, which is the most basic requirement at present. For kitchen appliances, food-grade materials are the most basic guarantee of our health.
In the design of the lid, the difference between the two is very obvious, Daewoo uses a removable lid, while Nepal uses a one-piece lid, although partially removable, but some trouble. Whether the lid is removable or not, it directly affects the convenience of cleaning after use, removable lid, can be directly rinsed, can also be put into the dishwasher cleaning, can be said to be very convenient. But like Nepal such as non-removable/semi-removable pot cover, cleaning up is a bit of a hassle, after partial cleaning, you also need to use a rag to wipe the joints (after opening the lid, water vapor will flow down along the surface, stored in the junction).
Both rice cookers have an LCD display, the difference is that the Nepal interface is on the top lid, while the Daewoo interface is in the front, in terms of convenience, the top button will be slightly more convenient. In addition, Nepal uses touch keys, while Daewoo uses physical keys, this aspect of the personal feel that the physical keys are better, the touch keys are sometimes not easy to control, used for a long time will not work, the physical keys are also more suitable for the elderly at home, they are generally not very high acceptance of the touch buttons.
Functional menu, the main functions of both have. Nepal through the top button on the cooking rice, soup and other modes of direct selection, and can also choose the softness. Daewoo is a little less rich in menu, after all, 2-in-1 products can not take into account so many fancy choices, but the functions that should be there are all there. Simply from the operation, Daewoo's convenience to be stronger, the operation is more simple, button selection, click to start can be canceled just double-click on it, the elderly at home is also a teachable moment.
As Daewoo is a two-in-one product, and Nepal's "micro-pressure" is different, in the pressure cooker mode in order to achieve the true meaning of high-pressure, Daewoo in the lid is also set up a mode conversion key, rice cooker and electric pressure cooker two modes of switching to the end of the use of the purpose, but also to avoid due to the "automatic micro-pressure". This also prevents the "automatic micro-pressure" mode from falling out of place.
Capability of cooking rice and porridge, Daewoo 2-in-1 rice cooker, electric pressure cooker, open-flame pressure cooker. Our family often make risotto, potato rice and so on, Daewoo 2-in-1 products and IH rice cooker in cooking is not similar, rice are very Q-bomb, compared to the pressure cooker, the aroma is also more adequate.
Soup and stew ability, open flame pressure cooker Daewoo 2-in-1 electric pressure cooker rice cooker. Simmering soup stew meat, IH rice cooker, although better than ordinary rice cooker, but in front of the electric pressure cooker is a younger brother, Daewoo's pressure cooker mode up to have close to 70kpa pressure, although less than the open flame pressure cooker 100kpa or so of pressure, but more than the micro-pressure of the IH rice cooker effect is much too good, the meat sucks soup thick.
Summary: rice cooker cooked rice, the particles will be more full, the taste is relatively good; pressure cooker stewed meat is more soft, and save time and energy; Daewoo 2-in-1 products can be said to be a collection of the advantages of the two, and did not have to weaken in the performance of the two areas, the only pressure is slightly weaker than the open-fire pressure cooker, but cook out of the meat, basically, there is still no difference between the two, both have been able to do not Stuffed teeth.
In addition, the owner has previously used a single pressure cooker products, it is in addition to poor cooking effect, the pressure relief effect is also relatively poor, will also overflow the pot string, failure rate is also very high, the owner of the previous two electric pressure cooker are used not long after the bad. So I think the use of simple electric pressure cooker is not as good as the use of open-flame pressure cooker to the effect, of course, the open-flame pressure cooker there are still some safety issues.
Speaking of safety, electricity is relatively safer than open-flame products, and this is most evident in open-flame pressure cookers and electric pressure cookers. Pure metal open-flame pressure cooker, it is easy to accidentally be burned, in doing other things when the old have to worry about the arm will touch the gas stove on the metal pressure cooker. The general electric pressure cooker is a plastic shell, with good anti-scald, which provides a good security guarantee in the cooking process.
Although the current open-flame pressure cooker in the safety of all guaranteed, but after all, is the use of open flames, may forget to turn off the fire to bring safety hazards, especially with the elderly family, I do not recommend long-term use. Even if it can be used normally, the open-flame pressure cooker to complete the work of this way out of the gas, but also always a little bit frightening.
The Daewoo 2-in-1 pressure cooker is much safer to manually vent by pressing on the top, and the wide buttons are extremely easy to press. There's also a red visual float behind the exhaust valve to visualize the pressure level, which also increases safety.
In addition, the opening time of the electric pressure cooker is relatively uncontrollable, and there is still a lot of water vapor coming out after opening the lid. Daewoo's manual venting saves some time and opens the lid more securely, in addition to facilitating juice collection and safety.
From the owner of this upgrade is not difficult to see, Daewoo 2-in-1 rice cooker innovation of "one key to switch dual mode" and "a pot of two gallons" configuration, are very pleased, and it is difficult to find similar products on the market. Although it is dual mode, but the actual effect is not worse, but to be better than ordinary single function rice cooker / electric pressure cooker to come, and safety, and than the open flame pressure cooker to be too high.
In addition, it should also be very popular in terms of color, both compared to traditional square rice cookers and electric pressure cookers. In addition to the white color I chose, there are also beautiful purple and yellow available, the girls should like it very much~