JP2001269265A - Pan for rice cooking jar - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pan for a rice cooking jar that can cook rice separately in 'soft', 'usual', and 'hard' at a time in a process of rice cooking. SOLUTION: In a pan for a rice cooking jar A with the bottom, a water level line 4 is applied on an inner surface 6 of the pan A and a rice line 5 corresponding to the water level line 4 is applied to be inclined to the water level line 4.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a pot for a rice cooker, and more particularly to a scale display thereof.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, rice cookers used in ordinary households are provided with an amount of water according to an amount of rice cooked by a user as a water level line by printing, engraving, or the like on the inner surface of a pot. I have. The user can determine the amount of water according to the amount of rice with reference to the water level line and cook rice.

[0003] On the other hand, some rice cookers can perform "soft", "normal", and "kake" cooking according to the user's preference. Usually, rice cookers are controlled by a microcomputer. A method in which the process is changed, or a method in which a water level line corresponding to "soft", "normal", and "warm" is provided in the pot, and the user changes the water level according to his / her preference, and rice is cooked. .

[0004]

However, in a use environment, particularly in a home where children and the elderly are present, the preference of the hardness of rice may be different. In such a case, it is necessary to cook `` soft '', `` normal '', and `` kake '' rice at the same time in a single rice cooker, but in a rice cooker with a pot or rice cooker described above, In a single cooked rice, only one kind of rice can be cooked: "soft", "normal", and "warm".

On the other hand, it is generally known that rice can be cooked uniformly by the convection of rice and water during the rice cooking process in an ordinary rice cooker. However, the amount of rice to be cooked is actually smaller than the amount of water. The present inventor has found that the convection is limited to water, and the convection of the rice hardly occurs, and the rice stays at the place before cooking because the weight of the rice is heavier than water.

Therefore, the present invention provides a pot with a line indicating a predetermined amount of rice (hereinafter, referred to as "rice level line").
An object of the present invention is to provide a pot of a rice cooker that can simultaneously cook “soft”, “normal”, and “hot” rice with a single rice cooker.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention relates to a bottomed tubular rice cooker pan, wherein a water level line is provided on an inner surface of the pan and rice corresponding to the water level line. It is characterized in that the potential line is provided at a predetermined angle to the water level line.

In the above configuration, since the position of the rice level line relative to the water level line of the pot changes, the rice level corresponding to the “soft”, “normal”, and “hot” water levels depends on the location of the pot. Then, the rice is hardly convected during the rice cooking process, so that the above three types of cooking can be separately performed by one rice cooking.

[0009] The rice level line may be provided over the entire inner surface of the pot for each total number of rice.

[0010] It is possible to adopt a configuration in which an inclined surface having the same angle as the rice line is provided on the outer bottom surface of the pot.

[0011]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. As shown in FIG. 1, the pot A of the rice cooker according to the embodiment has a bottomed cylindrical shape, and is provided with an outward flange 8 on an opening peripheral edge thereof, and a pair of opposed handles 9 is provided on the flange 8. The above pot A is stored in the outer pot 2 of the jar body 1 of the rice cooker B. Rice and water are set in the pot A, the lid 3 is closed after storage, and a predetermined rice cooker switch is set. By pressing (not shown), rice can be cooked in a predetermined rice cooking process ("normal") as shown in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 3, a water level line 4 corresponding to the volume of rice for cooking white rice and a rice level line 5 corresponding to each volume of rice are provided on the inner surface 6 of the pot A, as shown in FIG. The rice level line 5 is inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to the water level line 4 (see FIG. 4). At the center of the section of the pot A, the rice level line 5 and the water level line 4 have a "normal" hardness. As one goes from the center to the end, one end is more or less “warped” (ie, the distance between the U.S. line 5 and the water line 4 is narrow (a)), and the other end is The positional relationship is such that the water level of “soft” is high (that is, the interval between the US level line 5 and the water level line 4 is wide (b)).

In the pot A, even if a predetermined volume of rice is washed and then rice is set along the rice level line 5, the rice after washing contains water and does not collapse. When the water is poured after setting the rice, the rice is slightly broken. However, the rice may be reset along the rice level line 5 again. When rice cooker B is operated after setting rice and water in this way, a temperature difference occurs due to heating inside the pot and convection occurs. However, since rice is heavier than water, movement in the pot due to convection hardly occurs. . Therefore, rice in each part in the pot is cooked according to the hardness determined by the positional relationship between the water level and the rice level set before cooking.

FIG. 5 shows an example in which a lower surface of the pot A is provided with an inclined surface 7 having the same inclination angle as the rice level line 5. In this case, when setting the washed rice, the rice level is lowered. There is an advantage that rice can be easily set because the line 5 is horizontal.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment. For example, in the above-described embodiment, an example is shown in which a rice level line is provided for white rice, but a rice level line corresponding to brown rice, sushi, and the like may be provided. Further, the number of rice level lines provided can be changed according to the capacity of rice, and the rice level line may not be provided on the entire inner surface of the pot, but may be provided only at the center and the end.

[0016]

As described above, according to the present invention, a rice cooker is provided with a rice level line inclined with respect to the water level line in a pot of a rice cooker.
You can easily cook rice for "Katame".

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a graph showing a rice cooking process.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a pot of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view of the same pot.

FIG. 5 is a sectional view of a pot showing another embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Jar main body 2 Outer pan 3 Lid 4 Water level line 5 US level line 6 Inner side surface 7 Inclined surface 8 Flange 9 Handle

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A pot of a bottomed tubular rice cooker, wherein a water level line and a rice level line corresponding to the water level line are provided obliquely at a predetermined angle with respect to the water level line on the inner surface of the pot. A cooking rice jar pot characterized by the following. 2. The rice cooker pot according to claim 1, wherein the rice level line is provided over the entire inner surface of the pot for each total number of rice. 3. The rice cooker pot according to claim 1, wherein an inclined surface having the same angle as the rice line is provided on an outer bottom surface of the pot.