212 Fahrenheit is 100 Celsius. So don't remember the ridiculous Fahrenheit number and just remember 100 Celsius. 100 Celsius is %100 easy number to remember than the crazy Fahrenheit system.
Would it be automatic beyond belief if when you set the bowl in and it was full of rice and water it automatically pressed the lever from warming mode to heating mode?
Doesn't everyone own at least three, and generally more? Oh wait . . . no . . . that's just my hoarder friend. (My Asian hoarder friend, to be fair.) The same one who owns, oh, six barbecues and three or four smokers. I suppose my wife and I (who do eat rice as a staple) own pretty much the same two as TC: simple, easy cheap three cup, and a big one for when company is coming. (They really are alarmingly close to his, save that twelve cup is still simple and just cooks rice.)
@@Archgeek0 The funniest part? I was trying to figure out what kind of rice cooker has a bagel mode or is part of a microwave. :D Too many non-sequiturs make for poor understanding, but GREAT comedy. :)
I've used these rice cookers for years and never really questioned how they actually worked. I just assumed it was some sort of bimetallic switch. This was eye opening, thank you!
Hey Technology Connection, watching your channel has always reminded me of something I couldn't put my finger on but I've finally figured it out: Watching your channel feels like watching the Discovery channel during its prime. Every video makes me more curious about the world and technologies around me, and just a bit more knowledgeable. It is a feeling I have missed, so thank you!
I'm not going to lie I took this video as a good review for this specific rice cooker and said "eh, it's probably good enough" and bought my first rice cooker. dear God how have I lived so long without a rice cooker.
Honestly I just use a little 2-liter pressure cooker. It can cook rice perfectly in 5 minutes, same with anything else. Or just use it like a regular sauce pan without the lid. I'm not a fan of countertop appliances that take up space 100% of the time, but get used 5% of the time lol
Basic rice cookers are not only cheaper but usually last way longer than the fancy ones. I had a classmate in uni who moved into her own apartment and one of the appliances she bought was a multifunction rice cooker, which broke in less than a year even though she used it 1-2 times a week at most. Meanwhile, my dad's rice cooker from my childhood home was older than me by several years, used every day, and lasted way into my teens until a typhoon came and it got washed away in a flood 😂
And still, somewhere down the river today, there is a couple of mermaids that have been eating perfectly cooked rice every day since that faithful storm...
AvE pointed out once that "over-engineered" is a contradiction. Building a bridge that can carry 100x the maximum weight that will ever cross it is not good engineering, it's wasteful. Building a device that can function faultlessly for ages with limited sensitivity to the environment is very good engineering. This is why we still don't have "smart guns." Guns need to shoot every time, so "dumb" ends up being smart.
Cobb Butterscorn a Pot doesn’t always cook rice perfectly every time, and needs to be monitored, a rice cooker is set and forget and will be perfect every time. 🙂 ‘Basic’ rice cookers are the best. 👍
I bought a rice cooker just like that when I first moved out of my parents home. Over 20 years later it's still the only rice cooker I've ever owned. It's worked flawlessly every single time.
@@alexandrathearmy8464 I almost bought one after all the excellent reviews, and watching cooking recipes on utube. I was even offered one by a friend in Ont. who bought one and isn't using it. Turned around 180°, saved some money, and am using a max of 2 biggest Sanyos, a big Chinese one, and a small Black and Decker. Easiest I've even come to cooking my one daily meal. 4different sizes classical Hawkins pressure cookers sleeping in cupboard. 2new portable induction cookers and large dedicated pots same. Easy Cooking pushing one button for myself and dog!!!
Because of this video, I now understand why my basic rice cooker regularly burns the bottom layer of rice for me. I live at altitude, and water boils around 200 degrees Fahrenheit for me. I'm guessing my rice cooker keeps the heating element on until it exceeds 212 degrees Fahrenheit, and that continued heating after all the water has been absorbed is probably what causes the rice to burn!
@@ttaibe putting salt will raise the boiling temperature of water, just be careful it won't disabled the magnetic as the water temp rises, or else you get half cooked rice that as good as gone. Seriously, half cooked rice has the worst texture ever. It's like eating sand and glass yet soft on tongue...
That was exactly what I was wondering as I watched the video. I thought maybe if your water boils at 190F, the temp rises fast enough to the cutoff (215F?) that it doesn't matter. Now I see that it does matter, and the rice burns. Oh well, not quite the foolproof design I'd hoped. We have an electric kettle, and I believe it's using a fixed temperature for stopping. When I hear the water madly boiling away, I just take it off the base, figure our water won't be getting any hotter. A clever electronic rice cooker could monitor the temperature, look for the plateau point, and shut off once the temp starts rising again.
It was Pierre Curie, husband of Marie Curie, that discovered the phenomena that bears his name. The Curie temperature varies considerably for different metal alloys, there are even some that have Curie temperatures well below freezing. There are magneto-optical data storage drives that rely on the Curie temperature to record and erase data.
the other fun point is that at least for some materials they only become magnetic past a certain temperature i think it was aluminium (or an aluminium alloy for casting at least) does become magnetic and this is quite notable due to the magnetic field caused by some furnaces heating said aluminium for casting
@@Bistinglolwut why? the new ones are still built the same way. 35 years isn't even that long for an appliance to survive, you're just conditioned to expect shit to break after 5 years max by planned obsolescence.
@aristedes9449 Look, I enjoy repairing broken appliances, but that doesn't mean everybody has the time, wants to put in the effort, or even cares about something that might as well cost 15-20 dollars.
3:18 Al dente rice *is* a thing, but not cooking the rice long enough makes your al dente rice swim in water. So the main way to achieve that is to put in slightly less water and rely on the same mechanism to time the cooking. Also, a couple of small tidbits: When Toshiba first invented these, they used a bimetal strip instead of a magnet. While the double-boiler version (with either bimetal or magnet) is slightly less convenient when cooking rice, it can also be used to heat up other things as long as you put the right amount of water in the outer layer-quite useful before microwave ovens were common.
You could also just boil the rice like pasta, pull it out whenever you like. It's good for very starchy rice as even with the right ratio I can't seem to manage good rice-cooker rice with anything but basmati or parboiled, so just wash that excess away with the rest of the water and there you have it. For plain rice, a rice cooker and the right kind is always going to be best and you won't be wanting that one "al dente", but here lies the beauty of choice.
@@cat-.- It's risotto. Risotto is very creamy, if the rice is overcooked it tends to get lost, though I'd be hard-pressed to call the ideal consistency al dente, more at the very end of it. "Al dente" means leaving just a little bit of the core of the pasta or rice still uncooked, enough to give it some structure. It should not feel hard or crunchy, just enough that you feel some resistance when you bite down (hence the name), tune it at your liking. Of course, it all depends on what you mean by "they didn't cook the rice through", if it's by a big margin then it probably means whoever made it got tired and took it out of the stove early, if you mean just enough to be noticeable from say plain basmati rice which is long and thin then yeah.
These things are incredible. I've actually fallen asleep while the rice was cooking, and the rice was totally fine when I woke up. Not burned, not dried out, not on fire. Doing that with a pot on the stove doesn't end so well.
I tried making arroz con pollo with way too much water one night when I was rather drunk and fell asleep on the kitchen floor. I awoke to what was essentially congee. Happy accidents do happen sometimes!
@@majist0 _Aroma is a solid brand actually. It’s not fancy like Zojirushi but it gets the job done well for the price._ Thanks for that useful review! I'm interested in getting one now :-)
Fun Fact: When Toshiba decided to begin manufacturing electronics, it's rice cooker was already iconic in Japan being of the highest quality yet affordable, and nearly ubiquitous in every home there, so they decided to make a transistor radio receiver shaped like their rice cooker but smaller to offer on the Japanese market as a means to capitalize on their market image of high quality and advanced technology. It is now one of the "Holy Grail's" of transistor radio collecting, exceedingly rare and valuable. This was in itself another first: it began the "Novelty Radio" craze of receivers being placed into all manner of plastic case shapes like Coke bottles, world globes, and various 'ball' shapes among many others.
OMG! I just got my Aroma rice cooker and I have been pondering how the hell it knows when my rice is done. I watched 3 other videos before I found yours and they were useless. Yours absolutely satisfied my curiosity! Thank you, sir!!!
Yeah I had a rice cooker with the lid made of two parts (well 5 if you count the rubber ring, and two brackets that holds the two pieces together, I am purposely ignoring the screws) and it was a pain to take out and clean.
Yes, and wow. That's a lot to tackle. I learned from Bryan Orr (HVAC School). Neat thing is, once a person knows why the hot tube carries the cold and the cold tube the heat, they've pretty much got it.
I bought my glass lid rice cooker for $12 in Australia back in 2005, still working perfectly like new. We eat rice almost daily. Incredible and simply amazing !
@@yagomizuma2275 Unfortunately it died in 2024, I bought the same one as replacement twice and both died. First one in a day and second one in two weeks. I bought another brand now. Unfortunate that they will not make a good product because it will hurt their own profits.
I just finished cooking rice with this exact model of rice cooker, opened UA-cam, and this video was my top recommendation. At least say hi next time you visit!
Still one of the very best channels on UA-cam. You don't just have knowledge; you don't just explain things; you find the perfect sweetspot of teachable background as it relates to perfectly common unobserved phenomena. All the things we take for granted, you take the time to offer just enough base level knowledge and just enough specific fact, to leave us thinking "wow I know so much more about that now and I didn't even have to try following along!"
Like the use of imperial or metric. The idea anybody could familiarise themselves with both or at least learn simplified conversions is just crazy talk, of course.
People think I stop the microwave at 1 second because I'm impatient but really it's to avoid the loud beeps at 2am letting everyone know my cow-ass is eating a hot pocket.
Apparently microwaves have a mute function. You just need to figure out the right combination of button presses for your model. I haven't looked into it for my latest one yet, but I did play with an older one that had the instructions on the keypad. It was neat until other people forgot about their food for the third time.
@@Sara-bk3yi Why would anybody buy things they don't need? At least other optional kitchen appliances can do something faster or better. Rice cookers, like breadmakers and electric knives are just kind of pointless unless you have need an extra free space on the stove.
@@Carewolf Rice cookers are better than stove tops. They makes things so much easier. You don’t have to set a timer on a rice cooker and it turns off once it’s done cooking. I don’t have to worry about Leaving the rice on the stove too long and it being burnt. I also don’t have to worry about turning the knob at the perfect point. It makes sure that you get perfect rice every single time while keeping it low maintenance. World War II is over, use technology.
Funnily enough i've always wanted a rice cooker, a week after seeing your video I stumbled across an identical 'old style' one brand new in the box in a discount shop for £3.50! Trying it out now and it seems to be perfect, love the old fashioned technology and design!
He knows how to show that even the most ordinary things have an interesting operation! ANY UA-camr can shill the latest "iGadget", But this guy knows that we are surrounded by cool shit all of the time, and shows what makes these things so cool, otherwise we would miss it.
Oh my goodness this is absolutely fantastic. I am on my second Aroma basic rice cooker just like this one and have wondered from day one how it knows when the rice is done. It really does make great rice every time once you nail the rice/water ratio. It's good for cooking other grains as well. Thank you so much for this information.
for me in college that was the cluck of needing to reset the wooden spoon keeping the stove on. dorms didn't allow any cooking other than a rice cooker, and god dammit i want a burger.
@@samiam619 no, it was in the same building as the Culinary Arts portion of the school. They just hadn't added in a dorm kitchen yet, and the individual rooms are not equipped for cooking in.
"I prefer it to my fancier one simply because it doesn't get gross" Me: Just finished spending 15 minutes wiping down my fancy rice cooker because it was getting gross. ._.
@@vlogerhood Yeah, my Zojirushi rice cooker is pretty easy to clean and the seal looks exactly like it did when I first bought it, never had to clean that part.
but i need to be able to see what the weather is by looking at my rice cooker. How am i going to know? And don't tell me to use my refrigerator that thing is rude.
As I watch this, I'm eating rice that was cooked on almost that exact rice cooker, and I love it. I eat rice pretty often (half my cooking skill set is Korean) and it suits my needs great. My only complaint is that the "warm" setting is hot enough to dry the rice out, if I leave food out for a buffet style dinner. And yes, a digital sensor is just a thing that will break. If you don't absolutely need them, don't use them.
Your cooker might be trying to keep the rice above 60-63 degrees Celsius in order to prevent the growth of Bacillus cereus; which is important for a "buffet style" arrangement (see my previous comment: ua-cam.com/video/RSTNhvDGbYI/v-deo.html&lc=Ugx5q1cbi1Edv-wWOQl4AaABAg).
Used to work at Chipotle, where we had to keep rice at a safe temperature. It would dry out, but that's why we mix it up between every couple customers, and it helps that we went thru pans quickly
While the original Toshiba rice cooker from the 50s went out of style in Japan in favor of more advanced ones from Zojirushi etc and became a display in an appliance museum, it actually survived and has become a household item in Taiwan in the form of Tatung rice cooker. Available in various colors and sizes, Tatung rice cooker is said to have become a popular souvier for Japanese tourists when they visit Taiwan.
Yes exactly! Also wanted to add these are just about the only rice cookers you can buy with a stainless steel inner pot ie without non-stick coating! The coating is toxic imo, and it always flakes off eventually. Replacement pots are very expensive too.
Eating anything al dente is weird. Al dente is used to precook pasta in water before you finish cooking it in sauce. You cook it in water first to keep the sauce from tasting starchy. Anyone who actually eats anything al dente is just being pretentious and just eating it that way because they think it's proper.
I am SO grateful to you for these videos, and particularly for this specific one. I love rice and I was instantly convinced to buy a cooker, and it made rice recipes sooo easier. Enough with burnt rice and badly cooked rice. Thank you!
I didn't know basic rice cookers were this complex. I've been around them for 30 years and simply assumed they worked due to the difference in weights between uncooked and cooked rice. . You can cook other stuff on a rice cooker. The most interesting one for me is the anime Yakitate Japan's bread cooked in a rice cooker. They even did a live demo of it to show it could be done in real life and not just in the anime.
I love the closed captions on your videos, I can tell you definitely put a lot of work into them. Most content creators would just ignore the transcript.
I recently purchased an egg cooker that utilizes the same technology. While the steam is used to do the actually cooking of the eggs, the water supply acts as an incredibly accurate timer to cook the yolk to varying levels of done-ness. The timing of the device is created by a little plastic cup with lines on it that say: soft, medium and hard-boiled. Fill the cup to the desired level and pour it into the cooker. It even has the same lever on the front as the rice cooker.
I bought my mom one of those, because it takes less time than it takes to boil water to make over half a dozen of boiled eggs. It uses less energy. You can steam veggies in a basket on top of a rice cooker. Eggs, veggies, and rice. You have a whole meal.
When I took electrical engineering classes and we got to transistors, I remember my professor going "We're not going to touch on digital circuits, they're too easy" I think I understand what he meant now :B
digital circuits are easy, until you try to design an asynchronous CPU, guess why no modern CPU is truly async and need to have clock lines, such children toys...
@@monad_tcp You don't get it. There's beauty in simplicity, as well as efficiency. If you can design a thing to do what an IC does, but with even simpler construction, that is true genius. Theoretical wanking about kilobuck computers that rich kids own or work with is not so relevant to the point made above.
I think your professor forgot the existence of fighter jets and Nuclear power plants. Two processes that depend on digital circuitry to function. Because without it, they don't work.
I saw this video a while back, maybe a year, and yesterday finally decided to buy a rice cooker I came to rewatch the video and realized I bought the exact one you said was difficult to keep properly clean because of the rubber gasket, I went back to the store today and returned it since I had not yet opened it and I bought the same white one you had in this video Im very happy with it after using it for dinner tonight, thanks!
Seriously, this is probably going to sound like an old person question but why am I getting notifications for comments that I have nothing to do with? It just started sometime recently
Ok, I could delete my comments to erase the stupidity, but I literally thought that all the comments on the video were in my notification screen. I got this iPhone recently and I’ve never had one before ... embarrassing
@Will Pack So true! thats why I have backup power, I cannot be without juice. When the power goes out my backup battery system kicks in, and I'm the only house on the street with the lights on. :)
This functionality is also used in smaller pressure cookers. I have a small pressure cooker with the exact two modes, cook and keep warm. I accidenlty one day forgot to switch the cooker off in time while cooking beans. Thought the beans would be burned and the bowl ruined. Was surprised to find the cooker had switched to keep warm mode and there was a little bit of water left at the bottom. The beans and the bowl were fine. Did not understand how it switched to keep warm mode itself as i thought it was fully manual. I bought the cooker second hand without a manual. Thanks for explaining how the auto switch works.
The best part about these rice cookers is that they are physically automated as apposed to mechanically automated. This kind of automation is personally my favorite due to the lack of moving parts and the reliance on something as constant as physics. Absolutely beautiful.
Well, these are mechanically automated. That lever is mechanic, although controlled by magnet. One of the most finicky things is that thin copper switch terminal. It could really easily bolt in if there is an over current and then you cannot turn it off. But it is clever and gracious design.
@@DaDunge Over time, everything is bound to stop working due to degradation from one reason or another. The point is, it will easily last a relatively long time, and is very consistent.
What would you say is a long time? Mostly I'm curious about the record 🤭 the Panasonic rice cooker that works exactly like the one in the video hung in there for my family for over 15 years, finally kicked the bucket this year, and I found one exactly like it brand new on eBay from an electronics store and its packaging looked like it was sitting on a shelf since the 90s 🤭
@@rhythmelia my general rule is: if an electronic gadget can outlast the average family pet, its a venerable design. electronics should have a lifespan to some degree, otherwise the wires, heating elements, and whatever else could decay too far and cause a fire/blow fuses. but some things don't need the complexity that claims to bring additional comfort. if rice cookers were more popular in the west, theres a high liklihood one would come with GPS tracking and an stat tracking app that tells you how much rice youve made quarterly... and stop working altogether if you didnt buy that companies rice.
@@Nova-du5on The SI unit is radian. Example: Apply 1 Newton of force to a 1 m long lever arm. You have 1 Nm of torque. If the lever arm then rotates with 1 rad/s, you are pushing with 1 Watt of power. If you do this for 1 second you have done 1 Joule of total work. SI is beautiful, no ugly constants as far as the eye can see.
When this video was first released, it inspired me to ask for a basic, simple rice cooker for my Christmas and low and behold, a couple years later, it's been an amazing tool that's easy to clean and just wonderful to have around
Just wanted to say I wish my teachers (physics, chemistry) ever cared to explain phenomena in such accessible way. You know, even if some people complain about the details or subjective matters, the thing is raw, plain theory hardly ever speaks so well as introducing it the way you do here. From that perspective I find your videos to have far greater educational value than a lot of the physics classes I took - especially those where we all ended up trying to memorize definitions and formulae, because we couldn't really understand practical meaning of what we were taught. Thank you!
Well yes. Nobody is omniscient knowing absolutely everything about everything. The average person who buys a rice cooker or say a vacuum cleaner has no idea how it works, just that it does.
@@patrickjohnson5658 I think the reference was about checking to see if 50 other slow internet children had already added the correction. But, as a slow internet child, I suppose you missed that part... ;)
Fascinating! so it’s not about cooking time, or pressure, but instead the ratio of water to rice. Thank you. You also instilled confidence in getting a cheap rice cooker.
Protip for cooking rice: Right amount of water for white rice is putting rice in the pot, then fill with water until the water is one fingerjoint above the rice
@@MrProthall depends on the rice type though. Some rice in some areas need more water and some need less. You need some experiments before getting the desired result. Mine is like 4/5 upper finger joint to get the desired result.
I love how he said "This ain't no toaster!" as though it were obvious that toasters are SO much less boring than rice cookers. I absolutely adore his sense of humor and the content of this channel. I also wish I had him as an instructor in college for all of those science/math courses that were a bit hard for lib-arts majors like myself. Keep up the good work! This channel is top notch :)
Technology Connections: Here's a multi-part series about how the CED was developed, released, and how it ultimately failed. Also Technology Connections: YO CHECK OUT HOW THIS RICE COOKER WORKS!! You certainly know how to make a relatively boring household item seem exciting though
I get pretty good results by measuring the height of the rice in the cooker bowl with my finger, then add the same height of water above the rice. Add a little more water if you like slightly more cooked or softer rice. Less water if you prefer 'dryer' or less mushy rice.
If you are cooking long grain rice get any cup. Fill the cup with rice. Place rice in pot. Use same cup that you used for rice. Add 2 cups of water to pot. Add 1 tsp of salt and oil for flavor. Cover pot. Bring to a boil on medium high heat. Once pot is bubbling, reduce heat to low and leave it for 25 mins. Do that step by step and it's hard to mess up. Rinsing the starch off the rice makes the lid easier to see through if you are willing to put more effort but it doesn't make much difference in the dishes quality. I don't know what the ratio for short grain rice is though. Only weirdos who like math too much eat it anyway.
My dad took my grandmother rice cooker from when he was a kid in the late 60s and we still use it as there really no difference between it and a newer one. Even the parts are the same, got a second bowl, new plug and lid a while back
Keoni your family must be very frugal. Probably no appliances gets thrown away but in my case once something doesn't work I chuck it away and buy a new one hopefully with some added new features.
Your priorities and preferences are entirely on point! I was in the exact same situation, my first rice cooker had a lid like your fancy one and just like you I came across one of those glass lid ones and immediately loved how much more user friendly the simplistic design was. It's so damn easy to clean, and convenience is the whole reason I have a rice cooker.
I think you missed an important point about newer „automatic“ rice cookers: they are typically sealed and they cook by letting pressure to increase internally. Because pressure is higher, boiling point is higher, temperature can be higher and cooking is faster
@@dbclass4075 I can tell this is true because I own the basic "cook and warm" system but it's as insulated as the Multi cooker/Magic Jar one... Very common in Asia I usually cook rice every 7 in the morning, and remove the cord after about 30 minutes to make sure all the water evaporates and the rice isn't too moist (fresh, just done cooking rice is very moist for those following along)... And yep, it will stay warm until about 12 to 1 in the afternoon.
I just got one of these cheap simple ones a few weeks ago. I always thought I didn't need one because I can cook rice on the stove just fine, but the great thing about this little appliance is that you don't need to watch it al all - it's 100% fire and forget. I like mine very much.
I have the exact model he shows at 3:55, it's so nice not having to worry about ruining rice any more. I do a lot of cooking, but rice was my nemesis. Every damn time I ended up with a solid lump or a puddle of mush. Also works as a tiny Crock-Pot which is convenient.
I found out how valuable rice cookers were when I was a landlady and many of my tenants were African or Haitian students and one thing you always found in their apartments was a rice cooker. As a chef I had always cooked rice in the traditional way, but now that I'm retired, guess what, I got myself a rice cooker!
"Assuming you got the water to rice ratio correct" I never get it wrong. In a country who eats rice everyday, getting wrong is punishable by slipper smack.
Cooking the rice was one of my earliest chores as a kid. 3:2 water to rice ratio. If you somehow lose track of how much water you put in... well, I guess you're just rinsing it again.
I have this same exact rice cooker and it works much better than the expensive one I currently have in storage. It’s inexpensive, super simple and you’re correct about it being very easy to clean.
"Water can not exist at a temperature higher than it's boiling point" *Well it can in weird situations but that's not important right now* I love that you put that in because you know your audience is a bunch of easily incitable nerds just one small technicality away from nerd rage XD.
Sam I am All things being equal, increasing the pressure would also increase the boiling point temperature (because you need more energy), so water would be hotter but still wouldn't be 'higher than its boiling point'. What he may have meant is what happens when the water isn't given an initial boiling spot, similar to freezing water that isn't given an initial freezing spot - you can heat/cool it beyond the phase change point, but it becomes unstable. Google 'instant boil' or something like that for more info.
The rice cooker is cheap, but your time is priceless. You can buy pre cooked rice in the supermarket, which becomes edible after one minute in the microwave.
ebanfield you’re consuming huge amounts of endocrine disruptors from cooking in plastic so you can save five seconds? Rice cookers are great because rice can be tricky to get right and people often mess it up.
@@lwzeis Skip both the microwave/plastic AND the potentially toxic non-stick coating in most every rice cooker's included pot , and instead use an Instant Pot stainless steel pot for perfect, and super quick rice (especially whole-grain brown rice, which normally takes a while).
I have the same one, and it is a very nice little machine. We used to cook rice in the oven or on the stovetop, but this appliance save us energy and does a much more consistent job. I thought it was triggered by weight, but am glad I learned what really makes this work.
I bought a cheap rice cooker a few years ago and that thing has been the best bang-for-my-buck kitchen purchase I have made since I can remember. It makes better rice than I ever did on the stove top without me thinking about it. Plus, it turns out that mine will also perfectly cook a chicken thigh if you put that in on top of the rice after you add the water. Generously season the thighs with salt, pepper and garlic powder, add some aromatics (and maybe chicken bouillon powder) to the water and that's most of a good dinner taken care of
I have the very same rice cooker - and like you, I started out with a much "smarter" device that was a real pain in the butt to use. Simplicity is King!
Smart is indeed thrown around a lot lately but without UX research a lot of companies can very quickly deliver "dumb" smart devices... As counter-intuive as that sounds.
I would argue the need to integrate a simple electromechanical timer that prevents cooking from engaging for up to 10 hours. The only real selling points of using a modern rice cooker are the automatic ceasing of cooking and the ability to offset the start of cooking time so one can wake up to rice being perfectly prepared ready for breakfast and/or arrive home from work to perfectly prepared rice ready for dinner. One can cover a similar level of safety from overcooked rice by using the oven cooking method rather than the stove top cooking method so that leaves the desirability of offseting the cooking time.
I have that same basic rice cooker, it makes great omelettes. My apartment stove went out, so I've been learning to cook anything and & everything in my 2 rice cookers.
@@janwitkowsky8787 Om forget it scrambled eggs yes keep warm mix your ingredient add a little milk butter herbs on keep warm keep a eye on it and stir with a silicon spatula.Cheers
As someone who usually has to go back to make sure I heard something right every few seconds, I really appreciate people who put as much effort into their captions as you do- especially when you include "background" noise like when the water started to boil. The spirit of the end credits/screen is a wonderful bonus. Thank you! Now excuse me while I buy a simple rice cooker.
Who else came here from the Dankpods video about the rice cooker with "AI"? I mean, I watched this video a long time ago, but had to watch it again after the shoutout! lol
As much as I love technology, I hate how everything has a micro-processor and an internet connection now. One super fancy concept I do kind of like is the idea of a fridge that knows when food has gone bad but I've yet to see a good implementation of it (there are some fridges where you manually type in the data, which is too much of a pain, and they can order the food for you when you run low which is a step too far for me). Security on all these new devices is also atrocious as best, there are major botnets (collection of computer devices that share processing power to accomplish big things) which are used to hack into banks and government systems running off of low powered, unsecured IOT devices that will never be patched (even if there's a patch available). Aside from Google on my phone and Alexa on the FireTV in the living room I don't have any 'smart' speakers. For me it's not even about the privacy of my data (if they paid me for it I'd be happy to give it away) but about the potential for my otherwise well secured PC to be hacked (loss of money). For some people these devices can potentially compromise their physical security as well.
This must be my favorite episode, just because of the introduction of latent heat and foreshadowing future amazing topics, as well as explaining weird magnet behaviors. Not what I expected from a rice cooker.
What I think is really interesting about the interaction between the magnet and the spring is that it seems like part of what makes the change from "cook" to "warm" so quick and discrete is the relationship between Hooke's law and the inverse-square law. The magnet is stronger than the spring at close distances, but the spring easily overpowers the magnet once the button is far enough away, even after the temperature has settled back down and the magnet starts attracting again. I don't think you could get anything like this behavior with two springs, even if springs had something like a Curie point.
@@spherhy I had "inverse-square law" and then edited it after Googling. honestly it's been a while since I took physics so I'm not sure which one is right for magnetic force. edit: ah, I think force is inverse-square and field strength is inverse-cube
Yep. This video convinced me to buy a rice cooker. One of these cheap ones like the one featured in the video. I love the engineering behind it and this video was literally the best advertisement there could've been. I love your videos. Please keep it up ❤
Thanks, I just saw that one on sale last night for like eight bucks and was wondering if it would just be junk. Now I know, and can swing by and pick it up after work.
I've been addicted to rice cookers for years. I had no idea why they worked, just knew they always reliably did. This was really interesting! And I agree - the most basic $10-$20 model works the best. I've never had one die on me, just wear the inner pot out eventually and have to get a new one.
Having my iPad in a different language and so having the subtitles on by default gifted me some of the best examples of humor in this channel at the end of the video. I love you, SPIRIT OF THE CREDITS. 🎉 I hope you recover from your existential crisis soon!
To those wondering; it uses about 40 watts when in the warm mode, according to my Kill-a-watt
Did you notice your theme music in The History Guy's Elevator video?
Thank you as always for making accessibility a priority in your videos, Alec ☺️ your captioning work is much appreciated!! 💖
212 Fahrenheit is 100 Celsius.
So don't remember the ridiculous Fahrenheit number and just remember
100 Celsius.
100 Celsius is %100 easy number to remember than the crazy Fahrenheit system.
Would it be automatic beyond belief if when you set the bowl in and it was full of rice and water it automatically pressed the lever from warming mode to heating mode?
Wouldn't you think that also water cookers use the same principle with a magnet, though not keeping the water warm afterwards?
"So now its a permanent not magnet"
Oh come on, you totally missed the opportunity to call it a Magnot
Good joke in writing, but it might not be as clear with certain north american accents.
That's good enough to deserve a rewrite or a dub.
*mag-ain't
The point at which this happened would be The Magnot Line.
He missed this as he did NOT have a NET.
It was the one that got away.
"i dont eat rice as a staple"
owns at least 2 rice cookers.
You should see my toaster situation!
@@TechnologyConnections LOL!
Doesn't everyone own at least three, and generally more? Oh wait . . . no . . . that's just my hoarder friend. (My Asian hoarder friend, to be fair.) The same one who owns, oh, six barbecues and three or four smokers. I suppose my wife and I (who do eat rice as a staple) own pretty much the same two as TC: simple, easy cheap three cup, and a big one for when company is coming. (They really are alarmingly close to his, save that twelve cup is still simple and just cooks rice.)
@@SymphonicPoet I have two, though one is a four-slicer and the other is part of my microwave, featuring a bagel mode.
@@Archgeek0 The funniest part? I was trying to figure out what kind of rice cooker has a bagel mode or is part of a microwave. :D Too many non-sequiturs make for poor understanding, but GREAT comedy. :)
I have that exact same Aroma rice cooker and I've always wondered how it works. This is genuinely fascinating
Same
i assumed it was entirely based on the weight of the water evaporating.
I've used these rice cookers for years and never really questioned how they actually worked. I just assumed it was some sort of bimetallic switch. This was eye opening, thank you!
Most cheap ones have a thermoswitch. I have never actually seen one using this system
@Howard Black I assumed myself that it was weight based, and would release when a certain amount of water was boiled away.
@@Tinfoilpain but it does'nt boil away, the rice absorb it
@@dabigbadwolf5081 : And a pound of rice looks like half a pound of rice + half a pound of water.
@@Mr371312 Umm, NO most cheap ones have this magnet system as does the original design
Hey Technology Connection, watching your channel has always reminded me of something I couldn't put my finger on but I've finally figured it out: Watching your channel feels like watching the Discovery channel during its prime.
Every video makes me more curious about the world and technologies around me, and just a bit more knowledgeable. It is a feeling I have missed, so thank you!
Oh man, prime Discovery channel. Do you remember "Beyond 2000"? That show was mind-blowing as a kid.
I wouldn't think I was smart without the 90s programming on the discovery channel.
PongoXBongo That was one of my favorites! Thanks for reminding me about that gem of a show.
The atmosphere
Boom de yada
Boom de Yada
He's like if Bill Nye was stuck on engineering mode 24/7. I love this channel and this guy. Good call :)
I'm not going to lie I took this video as a good review for this specific rice cooker and said "eh, it's probably good enough" and bought my first rice cooker.
dear God how have I lived so long without a rice cooker.
My rice comes out slightly worse than when I just cooked it like pasta, but hey it's much quicker and simpler
lol i hate this rice cooker. always leaves so much crunchy rice at the bottom. Zojirushi is where it's at
@@TaylorDiamondTurtle either wash the rice first or add just a quarter cup more water than it asks for
I got one after moving into my own place, and it's been very nice. I'm currently watching this video as I cook rice to try and make some onigiri
Honestly I just use a little 2-liter pressure cooker. It can cook rice perfectly in 5 minutes, same with anything else. Or just use it like a regular sauce pan without the lid. I'm not a fan of countertop appliances that take up space 100% of the time, but get used 5% of the time lol
Basic rice cookers are not only cheaper but usually last way longer than the fancy ones. I had a classmate in uni who moved into her own apartment and one of the appliances she bought was a multifunction rice cooker, which broke in less than a year even though she used it 1-2 times a week at most.
Meanwhile, my dad's rice cooker from my childhood home was older than me by several years, used every day, and lasted way into my teens until a typhoon came and it got washed away in a flood 😂
And still, somewhere down the river today, there is a couple of mermaids that have been eating perfectly cooked rice every day since that faithful storm...
Another example of how well built the older stuff was, as well as more reliable technology.
Ive been using my $15 rice cooker I got at a Korean market like 6 years ago in college, still running strong 💪
@@Nico-od4yv pfffffffffffft
@@Nico-od4yv also, common misconception, it's fateful, not faithful.
"Simplicity is the highest form of sophistication."
And thus, the basic rice cooker won.
@@skipfred In murrrrica, even the most basic of tasks needs "simplifying" for them. Lol n
@@unlokia Because we have better things to do than make the simplest tasks needlessly complicated, like the rest of the world...
AvE pointed out once that "over-engineered" is a contradiction. Building a bridge that can carry 100x the maximum weight that will ever cross it is not good engineering, it's wasteful. Building a device that can function faultlessly for ages with limited sensitivity to the environment is very good engineering. This is why we still don't have "smart guns." Guns need to shoot every time, so "dumb" ends up being smart.
Cobb Butterscorn a Pot doesn’t always cook rice perfectly every time, and needs to be monitored, a rice cooker is set and forget and will be perfect every time. 🙂 ‘Basic’ rice cookers are the best. 👍
@@awo1fman Rest of the world make the simplest task needlessly complicated?! WTF that even mean?! WTF are you talking about?
I bought a rice cooker just like that when I first moved out of my parents home. Over 20 years later it's still the only rice cooker I've ever owned. It's worked flawlessly every single time.
Is it cheap and affordable?I want to buy a rice cooker,but I don't wanna spend money on zojirushi,it's 350 dollars.
@@alexandrathearmy8464 yeah just buy a cheap one by decent brand it will be ok
@@alexandrathearmy8464 ...any cheapest one will do.....though a brand name might last forever until you outgrow its size.
@@jcjc3671 ok,I was thinking about buying instant pot duo,cause it has good reviews,many cooking options and you can buy it online for 30 dollars.
@@alexandrathearmy8464 I almost bought one after all the excellent reviews, and watching cooking recipes on utube. I was even offered one by a friend in Ont. who bought one and isn't using it. Turned around 180°, saved some money, and am using a max of 2 biggest Sanyos, a big Chinese one, and a small Black and Decker. Easiest I've even come to cooking my one daily meal. 4different sizes classical Hawkins pressure cookers sleeping in cupboard. 2new portable induction cookers and large dedicated pots same. Easy Cooking pushing one button for myself and dog!!!
Because of this video, I now understand why my basic rice cooker regularly burns the bottom layer of rice for me. I live at altitude, and water boils around 200 degrees Fahrenheit for me. I'm guessing my rice cooker keeps the heating element on until it exceeds 212 degrees Fahrenheit, and that continued heating after all the water has been absorbed is probably what causes the rice to burn!
Maybe adding a pinch of salt to the water can fix that problem? And create a new one (salty rice).. but hey, nice experiment anyway.
@@ttaibe putting salt will raise the boiling temperature of water, just be careful it won't disabled the magnetic as the water temp rises, or else you get half cooked rice that as good as gone. Seriously, half cooked rice has the worst texture ever. It's like eating sand and glass yet soft on tongue...
Thank you for sharing this, as I often stay in CO.
Are you washing your rice first? It could very well simply be excess starch burning at the bottom.
That was exactly what I was wondering as I watched the video. I thought maybe if your water boils at 190F, the temp rises fast enough to the cutoff (215F?) that it doesn't matter. Now I see that it does matter, and the rice burns. Oh well, not quite the foolproof design I'd hoped. We have an electric kettle, and I believe it's using a fixed temperature for stopping. When I hear the water madly boiling away, I just take it off the base, figure our water won't be getting any hotter. A clever electronic rice cooker could monitor the temperature, look for the plateau point, and shut off once the temp starts rising again.
It was Pierre Curie, husband of Marie Curie, that discovered the phenomena that bears his name. The Curie temperature varies considerably for different metal alloys, there are even some that have Curie temperatures well below freezing. There are magneto-optical data storage drives that rely on the Curie temperature to record and erase data.
the other fun point is that at least for some materials they only become magnetic past a certain temperature
i think it was aluminium (or an aluminium alloy for casting at least) does become magnetic and this is quite notable due to the magnetic field caused by some furnaces heating said aluminium for casting
*phenomenon (singular)
if it happens to different types of alloys at different temperatures would it be plural?
@@mattmarlow1458: You seem to have suggested you think it's likely singular with the phrase "it happens", just as the OP indicated with "bears".
Like MiniDisc, for example
I bought my first rice cooker in 1980 while stationed on Okinawa. It worked fabulously for over 35 years.
You could probably fix it with a soldering iron.
@aristedes9449 nah, after 35 years, it might need to be out inside of a display case and retired
@@Bistinglolwut why? the new ones are still built the same way. 35 years isn't even that long for an appliance to survive, you're just conditioned to expect shit to break after 5 years max by planned obsolescence.
@aristedes9449 Look, I enjoy repairing broken appliances, but that doesn't mean everybody has the time, wants to put in the effort, or even cares about something that might as well cost 15-20 dollars.
Is that what people call "Wife" these days? :D
My wife saw me click on this video and said, "Is that the toaster guy?"
the toaster vid got me started! ive been running out of Scotty Kilmer videos and needed something new to binge on.
I mean the dishwasher video got me. But the toaster videos got my sub.
@@surfride101 For me it's the Macrovision video.
I was asked why I was watching Otho from Beetlejuice.
@@seanramirez6396 oh shit.. that's too funny
The trick with the gasket type rice cooker is to simply not look at it. That way you can avoid the difficult cleaning.
That's a similar strategy for when something is going wrong with your car. Turn up the radio, and you don't hear it any more.
Cartoon physics, it's not a problem until you look down.
@@andrewwilliams6963 That's what Wile E. Coyote says!
@@josephgaviota beep beep. That roadrunner makes around 400 horsepower
I've got one with the central stub. Its like cleaning a 4 sided hub or a ninja star and its a theft deterrent device
3:18 Al dente rice *is* a thing, but not cooking the rice long enough makes your al dente rice swim in water. So the main way to achieve that is to put in slightly less water and rely on the same mechanism to time the cooking. Also, a couple of small tidbits: When Toshiba first invented these, they used a bimetal strip instead of a magnet. While the double-boiler version (with either bimetal or magnet) is slightly less convenient when cooking rice, it can also be used to heat up other things as long as you put the right amount of water in the outer layer-quite useful before microwave ovens were common.
You could also just boil the rice like pasta, pull it out whenever you like. It's good for very starchy rice as even with the right ratio I can't seem to manage good rice-cooker rice with anything but basmati or parboiled, so just wash that excess away with the rest of the water and there you have it.
For plain rice, a rice cooker and the right kind is always going to be best and you won't be wanting that one "al dente", but here lies the beauty of choice.
I once tried something called rosoto and was surprised they didn’t cook the rice through. Maybe that was intentional?
@@cat-.- It's risotto. Risotto is very creamy, if the rice is overcooked it tends to get lost, though I'd be hard-pressed to call the ideal consistency al dente, more at the very end of it.
"Al dente" means leaving just a little bit of the core of the pasta or rice still uncooked, enough to give it some structure. It should not feel hard or crunchy, just enough that you feel some resistance when you bite down (hence the name), tune it at your liking.
Of course, it all depends on what you mean by "they didn't cook the rice through", if it's by a big margin then it probably means whoever made it got tired and took it out of the stove early, if you mean just enough to be noticeable from say plain basmati rice which is long and thin then yeah.
We have al dente rice in hungary. We call it "pergős" rice.
I like my rice being more hard and less mushy
These things are incredible. I've actually fallen asleep while the rice was cooking, and the rice was totally fine when I woke up. Not burned, not dried out, not on fire. Doing that with a pot on the stove doesn't end so well.
Sire of the shire, whom'st've came from the lands of the feeble noita crashers how may bilbo shit his pants today?
Can agree. Someone did this when I was in college and caught their dorm room on fire
I made a hockey puck out of an egg yolk once
And you are exactly the sort of person a rice cooker was invented for 🤣
I tried making arroz con pollo with way too much water one night when I was rather drunk and fell asleep on the kitchen floor. I awoke to what was essentially congee. Happy accidents do happen sometimes!
As an Asian who eats rice everyday, this has been the question of my childhood.
As an Asian, do you approve this rice cooker?
@@MaxiRSilva as an Asian I approve of this rice cooker
Aroma is a solid brand actually. It’s not fancy like Zojirushi but it gets the job done well for the price.
@@majist0 _Aroma is a solid brand actually. It’s not fancy like Zojirushi but it gets the job done well for the price._
Thanks for that useful review! I'm interested in getting one now :-)
@@MaxiRSilva as an asian, i very much approve of rice cookers.
Fun Fact: When Toshiba decided to begin manufacturing electronics, it's rice cooker was already iconic in Japan being of the highest quality yet affordable, and nearly ubiquitous in every home there, so they decided to make a transistor radio receiver shaped like their rice cooker but smaller to offer on the Japanese market as a means to capitalize on their market image of high quality and advanced technology. It is now one of the "Holy Grail's" of transistor radio collecting, exceedingly rare and valuable. This was in itself another first: it began the "Novelty Radio" craze of receivers being placed into all manner of plastic case shapes like Coke bottles, world globes, and various 'ball' shapes among many others.
sauce?
OMG! I just got my Aroma rice cooker and I have been pondering how the hell it knows when my rice is done. I watched 3 other videos before I found yours and they were useless. Yours absolutely satisfied my curiosity! Thank you, sir!!!
Toaster: suicidal electromagnet
Rice cooker: water magnet
Light switch: fidget clicker
Microwave: electromagnetic whistle
@@xenontesla122 Hotel: Trivago
Cellphones : microwave whispers
“And you have to remove the gasket and clean it regularly.”
H-haha yeah I totally knew that was a thing [nervous sweating]
[rice cooker sweats as well]
Yeah I had a rice cooker with the lid made of two parts (well 5 if you count the rubber ring, and two brackets that holds the two pieces together, I am purposely ignoring the screws) and it was a pain to take out and clean.
I think we all have same experience - buying fancy rice cooker and then have to unscrew the top just to clean it
[Rice cooker lid trying to crawl away]
That’s why you need a hammer close by.
Bruh I never knew you had to clean the gasket. And I eat rice all the time.
"we'll get to that when we tackle air conditioning and refrigeration"
Me: I AM EXCITE
Yes, and wow. That's a lot to tackle. I learned from Bryan Orr (HVAC School). Neat thing is, once a person knows why the hot tube carries the cold and the cold tube the heat, they've pretty much got it.
Not too excite or you vaporize.
PongoXBongo It would make for a nice change of Phase. Err Pace.
Also an excuse to delay CED
Refrigeration is TIGHT
@@davincent98 YA BOIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!
I bought my glass lid rice cooker for $12 in Australia back in 2005, still working perfectly like new. We eat rice almost daily. Incredible and simply amazing !
2005? Older than me!
@@yagomizuma2275 Unfortunately it died in 2024, I bought the same one as replacement twice and both died. First one in a day and second one in two weeks. I bought another brand now. Unfortunate that they will not make a good product because it will hurt their own profits.
As someone who also owns that exact “fancy” rice maker, I too despise that 15 seconds of screaming when the rice is done.
YES! It sounds like a radiation alert or some such thing--why so shrill, fancy rice cooker, whyyyyyy?
And I have the cheap one. Works just fine for sushi rice...
I think we all have one appliance that we yell “shut up!” at.
@@Maple_Extract in my case it's an egg boiler.
My instant pot plays a little tune when it's done, then shuts up and keeps it warm until you tell it otherwise.
I just finished cooking rice with this exact model of rice cooker, opened UA-cam, and this video was my top recommendation.
At least say hi next time you visit!
OMG uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Turn off the googles maybe lol ohhhhh
Anthony Peters ...
google found a way to accses the rice cooker through a magnetic link
@@transwave50 Sounds about right...... waves! hmmmmmm........ maybe were on to something.............
Alexa can smell now.
Your jokes and humor keep getting better and better.
Thank you for always being there for all of us and making such great content. ;-)
I agree. The boiling point joke amused me particularly.
Love getting notifications for this channel or your own Deviant
Oh hey, two of my favorite youtubers watch each other! (Or at least one does)
Wtf hi Mr Penetration Man
Huh, I felt like his jokes felt more strained here than previous videos. Loved the episode though, one of my favorites in a while.
Still one of the very best channels on UA-cam. You don't just have knowledge; you don't just explain things; you find the perfect sweetspot of teachable background as it relates to perfectly common unobserved phenomena. All the things we take for granted, you take the time to offer just enough base level knowledge and just enough specific fact, to leave us thinking "wow I know so much more about that now and I didn't even have to try following along!"
I love his humor in this vid. Especially when he shows how well he knows how UA-cam watchers can react to the slightest thing.
Like the use of imperial or metric. The idea anybody could familiarise themselves with both or at least learn simplified conversions is just crazy talk, of course.
WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT UA-cam WATCHERS?!?! HOW DARE YOU!!! lol
@ Got a bit of a fanatic 'ere, ain't we?
“Doesn’t beep incessantly for 15 seconds when it’s done” (glares at microwave)
Mine sings to me
@@slightlyevolved Its a silly annoying shit until it became useful
How can something beep incessantly if it stops at 15 seconds? Those terms contradict each other!
People think I stop the microwave at 1 second because I'm impatient but really it's to avoid the loud beeps at 2am letting everyone know my cow-ass is eating a hot pocket.
Apparently microwaves have a mute function. You just need to figure out the right combination of button presses for your model. I haven't looked into it for my latest one yet, but I did play with an older one that had the instructions on the keypad. It was neat until other people forgot about their food for the third time.
“I prefer it to my fancier one.”
The Asian delegation welcomes you as honorary Asian.
I'll get him his card
Just having a rice cooker was enough for that. I think Asians are the only human beings unable to cook rice in a pot
@@Carewolf why would anyone cook rice in a pot when rice cookers exist? youre flexing about being able to make shitty rice
@@Sara-bk3yi Why would anybody buy things they don't need? At least other optional kitchen appliances can do something faster or better. Rice cookers, like breadmakers and electric knives are just kind of pointless unless you have need an extra free space on the stove.
@@Carewolf Rice cookers are better than stove tops. They makes things so much easier. You don’t have to set a timer on a rice cooker and it turns off once it’s done cooking. I don’t have to worry about Leaving the rice on the stove too long and it being burnt. I also don’t have to worry about turning the knob at the perfect point. It makes sure that you get perfect rice every single time while keeping it low maintenance. World War II is over, use technology.
Funnily enough i've always wanted a rice cooker, a week after seeing your video I stumbled across an identical 'old style' one brand new in the box in a discount shop for £3.50! Trying it out now and it seems to be perfect, love the old fashioned technology and design!
See, this is why I love this guy. He makes even cooking rice interesting and more educational than just taking the cooker apart. Somehow.
Cuz he spends time to understand how it actually works, and actually knows his stuff
He knows how to show that even the most ordinary things have an interesting operation! ANY UA-camr can shill the latest "iGadget", But this guy knows that we are surrounded by cool shit all of the time, and shows what makes these things so cool, otherwise we would miss it.
James Slick and XDTuber, very good points indeed
This is at least his third video on boiling water. Two for tea and one for rice ----so far.
“...212F delightfully easy to remember, idk what that is in Celsius probably some silly arbitrary thing...” I love these little gems lol 👍🏼
I thought that as well. subtle and still makes me laugh.
Hmm... exactly 100 likes for this arbitrary comment...
I mean yeah, it is arbitrary. Why pick water's freezing and boiling point as the 0 and 100 degree marks? That's a completely arbitrary choice.
100C
@@gabydiaz1083 whoosh!
As someone who routinely works with liquid water at 300 deg C, I appreciate your disclaimer!
guessing around 9 MPa I am curious
@@kissingfrogs could just be the lack of a nucleation point, thou I'm not sure that you can get to 300°C that way...
@@kissingfrogs The pressure of an espresso machine?
Just microwave it
Funny thing too
Theres Pressurized Induction Rice Cookers as well. The Zojirushi NP-NVC10, so boiling points are adjusted accordingly.
Oh my goodness this is absolutely fantastic. I am on my second Aroma basic rice cooker just like this one and have wondered from day one how it knows when the rice is done. It really does make great rice every time once you nail the rice/water ratio. It's good for cooking other grains as well. Thank you so much for this information.
My rice cooker has all the alarm signal I need--the metallic CLUNK when the switch snaps back to WARM.
truth
for me in college that was the cluck of needing to reset the wooden spoon keeping the stove on.
dorms didn't allow any cooking other than a rice cooker, and god dammit i want a burger.
Wyatt Roncin Makes sense only letting students have only a rice cooker. We all know that college students have NO common sense! 🤣
@@samiam619 no, it was in the same building as the Culinary Arts portion of the school. They just hadn't added in a dorm kitchen yet, and the individual rooms are not equipped for cooking in.
Plus, that little lever on the mechanical rice cooker is incredibly satisfying to push.
"I prefer it to my fancier one simply because it doesn't get gross"
Me: Just finished spending 15 minutes wiping down my fancy rice cooker because it was getting gross. ._.
I have a super fancy one and never touch the top seal thing and it is never gross. Not sure what is causing yours to get gross.
@@vlogerhood Yeah, my Zojirushi rice cooker is pretty easy to clean and the seal looks exactly like it did when I first bought it, never had to clean that part.
@@vlogerhood I am going to guess overfilling the pot would make the seal gross.
@@jcstalesoftrails9249/videos And boiling colorful aromatics, or adding fats/oils.
I have a basic one with that gasket style lid, and I didn't know that it came apart. Now I'm afraid to look in there.
Thanks! I’ve always wondered how that worked. I love all your videos.❤❤
Thanks very much!
The beauty in a device like this is that it is passively automatic.
Like selenium-powered cameras!
Felt the need to manually write a negative comment about your statement.
A functional, clever kitchen appliance without Bluetooth and a Twitter app for some reason, don’t tell Kickstarter!
but i need to be able to see what the weather is by looking at my rice cooker. How am i going to know? And don't tell me to use my refrigerator that thing is rude.
Kickstarter will probably make a glorified Dehumidifier out of it.
Haha technology can be useless sometimes. Let us all joke and laugh about it. Haha
I just don’t understand the humor
@@sirBrouwer - Lol!
It already exists Now im sad
As I watch this, I'm eating rice that was cooked on almost that exact rice cooker, and I love it. I eat rice pretty often (half my cooking skill set is Korean) and it suits my needs great. My only complaint is that the "warm" setting is hot enough to dry the rice out, if I leave food out for a buffet style dinner.
And yes, a digital sensor is just a thing that will break. If you don't absolutely need them, don't use them.
Your cooker might be trying to keep the rice above 60-63 degrees Celsius in order to prevent the growth of Bacillus cereus; which is important for a "buffet style" arrangement (see my previous comment: ua-cam.com/video/RSTNhvDGbYI/v-deo.html&lc=Ugx5q1cbi1Edv-wWOQl4AaABAg).
Used to work at Chipotle, where we had to keep rice at a safe temperature. It would dry out, but that's why we mix it up between every couple customers, and it helps that we went thru pans quickly
@@mattb4721 Yeah, rice must never be allowed to spend much time at room temperature. It must either be hot or chilled.
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 I'll eat it up to 24 hours later but I prefer 12
Not worrying about germs as much ... top tier immune system
While the original Toshiba rice cooker from the 50s went out of style in Japan in favor of more advanced ones from Zojirushi etc and became a display in an appliance museum, it actually survived and has become a household item in Taiwan in the form of Tatung rice cooker. Available in various colors and sizes, Tatung rice cooker is said to have become a popular souvier for Japanese tourists when they visit Taiwan.
Yes exactly! Also wanted to add these are just about the only rice cookers you can buy with a stainless steel inner pot ie without non-stick coating! The coating is toxic imo, and it always flakes off eventually. Replacement pots are very expensive too.
Technology Connections: Rice Al Dente isn't a thing
Hell's Kitchen: Hold my risotto
Hot wet rice. -The Katering Show
Hell's Kitchen in Minneapolis is one of my favorite restaurants. I don't know if they do al dente rice though...
Who wants Crunchy rice?????
@@AMPProf Actually crunchy rice taste good, sort of like pocorn but I do preffer soft fluffly white rice.
Eating anything al dente is weird. Al dente is used to precook pasta in water before you finish cooking it in sauce. You cook it in water first to keep the sauce from tasting starchy. Anyone who actually eats anything al dente is just being pretentious and just eating it that way because they think it's proper.
yo, you should check your camera setup; that shot used at 0:37 is some really grain-y footage
I took this seriously at first...
...but then I gave you 100 points for that excellence
I don't understand how this doesn't have more likes man, this is gold
@@TechnologyConnections there are some real white blobs at 7:37 no joke.
@@TechnologyConnections fix your mic please too reverberant
@@TechnologyConnections BOOM!
“This ain’t no toaster” cracking me up.
His toaster content is top notch.
To be fair: Toasters and Coffee makers ARE proof of Man's achievements! I would not be without them, even if my other appliances crapped out!
I am SO grateful to you for these videos, and particularly for this specific one. I love rice and I was instantly convinced to buy a cooker, and it made rice recipes sooo easier. Enough with burnt rice and badly cooked rice. Thank you!
"I mean, it's no Toaster!" :)
*Sad toaster lover noises*
"This ain't no toaster, that's for sure."
I think he has a slight problem.
Felt like a toaster to me: amazing ingenuity hiding as a really simply circuit and senses reality in a way that was unexpectedly indirect.
Might be a reference to Technology Connections' "Antique Toaster that is Better than Yours" video. ua-cam.com/video/1OfxlSG6q5Y/v-deo.html
I mean, it's no Sunbeam Radiant toaster, but it's at least equally as amazing as a normal toaster. At least it is to me.
Now I want to see a video on how toasters work
I didn't know basic rice cookers were this complex. I've been around them for 30 years and simply assumed they worked due to the difference in weights between uncooked and cooked rice.
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You can cook other stuff on a rice cooker. The most interesting one for me is the anime Yakitate Japan's bread cooked in a rice cooker. They even did a live demo of it to show it could be done in real life and not just in the anime.
Thanks for the anime suggestion!
I love the closed captions on your videos, I can tell you definitely put a lot of work into them. Most content creators would just ignore the transcript.
I recently purchased an egg cooker that utilizes the same technology.
While the steam is used to do the actually cooking of the eggs, the water supply acts as an incredibly accurate timer to cook the yolk to varying levels of done-ness. The timing of the device is created by a little plastic cup with lines on it that say: soft, medium and hard-boiled. Fill the cup to the desired level and pour it into the cooker. It even has the same lever on the front as the rice cooker.
OK, I usually hate too many one-use kitchen gadgets but that's one I need in my life,
I bought my mom one of those, because it takes less time than it takes to boil water to make over half a dozen of boiled eggs. It uses less energy. You can steam veggies in a basket on top of a rice cooker. Eggs, veggies, and rice. You have a whole meal.
I have one of these egg cookers and it's amazing. Perfect hard boiled eggs every time.
You missed to chance to end with:
"Have a rice day"
A rıice day?
@@parnikkapore You stop that now
That would rice..
Rice guys finish last😕
He neglected saying this just to get a rice outta you.
When I took electrical engineering classes and we got to transistors, I remember my professor going "We're not going to touch on digital circuits, they're too easy"
I think I understand what he meant now :B
digital circuits are easy, until you try to design an asynchronous CPU, guess why no modern CPU is truly async and need to have clock lines, such children toys...
@@monad_tcp You don't get it. There's beauty in simplicity, as well as efficiency. If you can design a thing to do what an IC does, but with even simpler construction, that is true genius. Theoretical wanking about kilobuck computers that rich kids own or work with is not so relevant to the point made above.
I think your professor forgot the existence of fighter jets and Nuclear power plants. Two processes that depend on digital circuitry to function. Because without it, they don't work.
@@Helveteshit You're a terrible liar, or terribly ignorant of facts. Which is it, Swiss cheese?
@@Helveteshit Ya sure about that one?
I saw this video a while back, maybe a year, and yesterday finally decided to buy a rice cooker
I came to rewatch the video and realized I bought the exact one you said was difficult to keep properly clean because of the rubber gasket, I went back to the store today and returned it since I had not yet opened it and I bought the same white one you had in this video
Im very happy with it after using it for dinner tonight, thanks!
"CED part 5 coming soon."
I think this series is going to be around longer than it was originally.
Came looking for a CED comment, thank you for making me happy!
"Magnets are confusing"
Insane Clown Posse: "I told you!"
gibbdude spoiler, it’s magic.
@gibbdude Miracles 😉
WHO!????
Seriously, this is probably going to sound like an old person question but why am I getting notifications for comments that I have nothing to do with? It just started sometime recently
Ok, I could delete my comments to erase the stupidity, but I literally thought that all the comments on the video were in my notification screen. I got this iPhone recently and I’ve never had one before ... embarrassing
"This device is unremarkable" - Goes on to remark about it for 11 minutes. lol
@Will Pack So true! thats why I have backup power, I cannot be without juice. When the power goes out my backup battery system kicks in, and I'm the only house on the street with the lights on. :)
The device is unremarkable.... the way in which it works is remarkable, and thus the center and focus of his remarks. He says that... literally. 0:23
And get the rice cooker paid back 10 folds by the views. Genius.
@@dash8brj IS THIS GUY CAPTAIN DISILLUSION?
This functionality is also used in smaller pressure cookers. I have a small pressure cooker with the exact two modes, cook and keep warm. I accidenlty one day forgot to switch the cooker off in time while cooking beans. Thought the beans would be burned and the bowl ruined. Was surprised to find the cooker had switched to keep warm mode and there was a little bit of water left at the bottom. The beans and the bowl were fine. Did not understand how it switched to keep warm mode itself as i thought it was fully manual. I bought the cooker second hand without a manual. Thanks for explaining how the auto switch works.
The best part about these rice cookers is that they are physically automated as apposed to mechanically automated. This kind of automation is personally my favorite due to the lack of moving parts and the reliance on something as constant as physics. Absolutely beautiful.
Well, these are mechanically automated.
That lever is mechanic, although controlled by magnet.
One of the most finicky things is that thin copper switch terminal. It could really easily bolt in if there is an over current and then you cannot turn it off.
But it is clever and gracious design.
Over time the magnet will lose it's power though.
@@DaDunge Over time, everything is bound to stop working due to degradation from one reason or another. The point is, it will easily last a relatively long time, and is very consistent.
What would you say is a long time? Mostly I'm curious about the record 🤭 the Panasonic rice cooker that works exactly like the one in the video hung in there for my family for over 15 years, finally kicked the bucket this year, and I found one exactly like it brand new on eBay from an electronics store and its packaging looked like it was sitting on a shelf since the 90s 🤭
@@rhythmelia my general rule is: if an electronic gadget can outlast the average family pet, its a venerable design.
electronics should have a lifespan to some degree, otherwise the wires, heating elements, and whatever else could decay too far and cause a fire/blow fuses. but some things don't need the complexity that claims to bring additional comfort. if rice cookers were more popular in the west, theres a high liklihood one would come with GPS tracking and an stat tracking app that tells you how much rice youve made quarterly... and stop working altogether if you didnt buy that companies rice.
i had always assumed it used a bimetal switch like a thermostat, but this is definitely more elegant and probably more reliable and cheaper
Unlike technology, physics have a absolute 0% failure rate.
@mipmipmipmipmip That's amateur, mine has been working since before I was born and doesn't even look like it needs replacing until after WW4.
Who needs the dang metric system when we have a perfectly good system of measurement based off the foot size of and old English king.
More like ancient greeks ?
Don’t worry, you don’t need to use degrees with circles, you can use your beautiful metric gradians instead
@@Nova-du5on Ancient romans (which also used the foot) used decimal multiples, but dozenal fractions !
@@Nova-du5on The SI unit is radian. Example: Apply 1 Newton of force to a 1 m long lever arm. You have 1 Nm of torque. If the lever arm then rotates with 1 rad/s, you are pushing with 1 Watt of power. If you do this for 1 second you have done 1 Joule of total work. SI is beautiful, no ugly constants as far as the eye can see.
Bagi Badoo the radian is not a metric unit though. It’s an SI unit, but it’s definitely not metric.
When this video was first released, it inspired me to ask for a basic, simple rice cooker for my Christmas and low and behold, a couple years later, it's been an amazing tool that's easy to clean and just wonderful to have around
The rice cooker, a history that deserves to be remembered.
As the history guy wll tell you
The history guy has me hooked.
Benjamin Cronce cue in The History Guy!! For a history lesson!
I came here right after a History Guy video.
Just wanted to say I wish my teachers (physics, chemistry) ever cared to explain phenomena in such accessible way.
You know, even if some people complain about the details or subjective matters, the thing is raw, plain theory hardly ever speaks so well as introducing it the way you do here.
From that perspective I find your videos to have far greater educational value than a lot of the physics classes I took - especially those where we all ended up trying to memorize definitions and formulae, because we couldn't really understand practical meaning of what we were taught.
Thank you!
6:48 I love how you treat Internet people just like a very very slowly learning child... which we are.
Speak for yourself, thanks.
Well yes. Nobody is omniscient knowing absolutely everything about everything. The average person who buys a rice cooker or say a vacuum cleaner has no idea how it works, just that it does.
Better to slightly bore the experts than to leave the simpletons behind. ;)
@@patrickjohnson5658 I think the reference was about checking to see if 50 other slow internet children had already added the correction.
But, as a slow internet child, I suppose you missed that part... ;)
Fascinating! so it’s not about cooking time, or pressure, but instead the ratio of water to rice. Thank you. You also instilled confidence in getting a cheap rice cooker.
Protip for cooking rice: Right amount of water for white rice is putting rice in the pot, then fill with water until the water is one fingerjoint above the rice
@@MrProthall depends on the rice type though. Some rice in some areas need more water and some need less. You need some experiments before getting the desired result.
Mine is like 4/5 upper finger joint to get the desired result.
I love how he said "This ain't no toaster!" as though it were obvious that toasters are SO much less boring than rice cookers. I absolutely adore his sense of humor and the content of this channel. I also wish I had him as an instructor in college for all of those science/math courses that were a bit hard for lib-arts majors like myself. Keep up the good work! This channel is top notch :)
Sounds like you haven't watched his video on toasters.
"This ain't no toaster" was an inside joke because of his work on toasters.
Also the comment on pushing the lever is a reference to the toaster video. Really it was a great video
Now I need to know how toasters know their work is done.
@@jfuthey Toaster video 1 ua-cam.com/video/zLFG068HtgM/v-deo.html
and toaster video 2 ua-cam.com/video/1OfxlSG6q5Y/v-deo.html
Technology Connections: Here's a multi-part series about how the CED was developed, released, and how it ultimately failed.
Also Technology Connections: YO CHECK OUT HOW THIS RICE COOKER WORKS!!
You certainly know how to make a relatively boring household item seem exciting though
I'll pass on the CED, but I do plan to make some rice tomorrow. I think I have a rice cooker. Hopefully I have the inner bit.
I have always wondered how these things work! Thanks for clarifying it! I also find cooking rice well to be less than obvious.
I get pretty good results by measuring the height of the rice in the cooker bowl with my finger, then add the same height of water above the rice.
Add a little more water if you like slightly more cooked or softer rice. Less water if you prefer 'dryer' or less mushy rice.
If you are cooking long grain rice get any cup. Fill the cup with rice. Place rice in pot. Use same cup that you used for rice. Add 2 cups of water to pot. Add 1 tsp of salt and oil for flavor. Cover pot. Bring to a boil on medium high heat. Once pot is bubbling, reduce heat to low and leave it for 25 mins. Do that step by step and it's hard to mess up. Rinsing the starch off the rice makes the lid easier to see through if you are willing to put more effort but it doesn't make much difference in the dishes quality.
I don't know what the ratio for short grain rice is though. Only weirdos who like math too much eat it anyway.
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Thanks!
We use our rice cooker every week. And I have to admit I’ve wondered how it worked dozens of times.
Now I know.
Cool. Thanks.
7:40 holy crap I thought my graphics card was exploding! There's some white artifacting here (not a rice pun!)
Yeah same. Had me wondering if my phone screen had broken for a second.
Aliens.
'twas an interesting experience.
yeah that's what i scrolled down to comment on. i thought my brand new rx5700xt was already dying.
@@GraveUypo lol considering what card it is, it probably IS dying and you just dont know yet :D
My dad took my grandmother rice cooker from when he was a kid in the late 60s and we still use it as there really no difference between it and a newer one. Even the parts are the same, got a second bowl, new plug and lid a while back
I mean, there is not much room for innovation when it does the task perfectly
Keoni your family must be very frugal. Probably no appliances gets thrown away but in my case once something doesn't work I chuck it away and buy a new one hopefully with some added new features.
@@harsep
Sounds like a waste to me.
@@harsep Why throw away a perfectly good rice cooker?
I love how the basic rice cooker has a crooked switch under the lights, as if to really drive home how simple and basic it is.
Your priorities and preferences are entirely on point! I was in the exact same situation, my first rice cooker had a lid like your fancy one and just like you I came across one of those glass lid ones and immediately loved how much more user friendly the simplistic design was. It's so damn easy to clean, and convenience is the whole reason I have a rice cooker.
I think you missed an important point about newer „automatic“ rice cookers: they are typically sealed and they cook by letting pressure to increase internally.
Because pressure is higher, boiling point is higher, temperature can be higher and cooking is faster
Additionally, newer rice cookers are better insulated, so they will stay warm for longer without power.
@@dbclass4075 I can tell this is true because I own the basic "cook and warm" system but it's as insulated as the Multi cooker/Magic Jar one... Very common in Asia
I usually cook rice every 7 in the morning, and remove the cord after about 30 minutes to make sure all the water evaporates and the rice isn't too moist (fresh, just done cooking rice is very moist for those following along)... And yep, it will stay warm until about 12 to 1 in the afternoon.
this also means that you dont run into the problem of water boiling point changing due to pressure and altitude causing the curie point to misalign
@@dbclass4075 Not really. I have the basic rice cooker which is insulated like a pressure cooker. Was very cheap and works perfect.
Do you mean newer rice cookers have tight fitting lids or that they are pressurized?
I now need a rice cooker!
They are a class device and take the hassle from cooking rice
@@chris9650 Yo, for real, I never knew how hard it was to cook just fuggin rice in a pot and this is like "nah fam I got it"
An Instant Pot pressure cooker cooks rice extremely well and gives you more cooking flexibility.
I just got one of these cheap simple ones a few weeks ago. I always thought I didn't need one because I can cook rice on the stove just fine, but the great thing about this little appliance is that you don't need to watch it al all - it's 100% fire and forget. I like mine very much.
I have the exact model he shows at 3:55, it's so nice not having to worry about ruining rice any more. I do a lot of cooking, but rice was my nemesis. Every damn time I ended up with a solid lump or a puddle of mush. Also works as a tiny Crock-Pot which is convenient.
I found out how valuable rice cookers were when I was a landlady and many of my tenants were African or Haitian students and one thing you always found in their apartments was a rice cooker. As a chef I had always cooked rice in the traditional way, but now that I'm retired, guess what, I got myself a rice cooker!
I've always found Somali rice tastes better when made in a rice cooker.
I really like your sense of humor.
oh i hate it, but thats why i love this channel lmao
Why don't you marry him
@@Whityfisks youre so cool
@@Whityfisks i would
Who doesn't? ^_^
Car mufflers are interesting unique technology too, they neutralize sound waves with their own echo, a very precise thing to do.
"Helmholtz resonance" in case anyone wants to learn more. There are other phenomenon at play too.
"Assuming you got the water to rice ratio correct"
I never get it wrong. In a country who eats rice everyday, getting wrong is punishable by slipper smack.
Slipper smack 😂
Hawai'I resident here - can confirm 😆
stick your two finger in, who really need a fancy smancy measurement
Cooking the rice was one of my earliest chores as a kid. 3:2 water to rice ratio. If you somehow lose track of how much water you put in... well, I guess you're just rinsing it again.
Haha slipper smack is nothing compared to feather duster whip.
I have this same exact rice cooker and it works much better than the expensive one I currently have in storage. It’s inexpensive, super simple and you’re correct about it being very easy to clean.
"Water can not exist at a temperature higher than it's boiling point"
*Well it can in weird situations but that's not important right now*
I love that you put that in because you know your audience is a bunch of easily incitable nerds just one small technicality away from nerd rage XD.
SupaDanteX Would that “weird situation “ be under pressure?
@@samiam619 and high temperature too
Sam I am All things being equal, increasing the pressure would also increase the boiling point temperature (because you need more energy), so water would be hotter but still wouldn't be 'higher than its boiling point'.
What he may have meant is what happens when the water isn't given an initial boiling spot, similar to freezing water that isn't given an initial freezing spot - you can heat/cool it beyond the phase change point, but it becomes unstable. Google 'instant boil' or something like that for more info.
KillahMate you're right.
the upscriber *you’re rig- oh you got it right.....
After watching this I finally went out and bought a Rice cooker just like the one you showcased in this video. I love it, well worth the $15.
The rice cooker is cheap, but your time is priceless. You can buy pre cooked rice in the supermarket, which becomes edible after one minute in the microwave.
ebanfield you’re consuming huge amounts of endocrine disruptors from cooking in plastic so you can save five seconds? Rice cookers are great because rice can be tricky to get right and people often mess it up.
@@lwzeis Skip both the microwave/plastic AND the potentially toxic non-stick coating in most every rice cooker's included pot , and instead use an Instant Pot stainless steel pot for perfect, and super quick rice (especially whole-grain brown rice, which normally takes a while).
Just did the same thing today, family loved it! Glad I watched this video.
I have the same one, and it is a very nice little machine. We used to cook rice in the oven or on the stovetop, but this appliance save us energy and does a much more consistent job. I thought it was triggered by weight, but am glad I learned what really makes this work.
5:01 *plugs the rice cooker in and proceeds to screw it apart.*
My brain: AHHHHHHHH
Better not let your brain watch ElectroBOOM's channel then.
_Same_
You know, if someone opens an electric device while it's plugged in, they are either a master at handling it or a complete amateur. No in between.
Scrolled until seeing that
i was wondering about that, it is unplugged when he opens it though, just bad editing
I bought a cheap rice cooker a few years ago and that thing has been the best bang-for-my-buck kitchen purchase I have made since I can remember. It makes better rice than I ever did on the stove top without me thinking about it.
Plus, it turns out that mine will also perfectly cook a chicken thigh if you put that in on top of the rice after you add the water. Generously season the thighs with salt, pepper and garlic powder, add some aromatics (and maybe chicken bouillon powder) to the water and that's most of a good dinner taken care of
I have the very same rice cooker - and like you, I started out with a much "smarter" device that was a real pain in the butt to use. Simplicity is King!
Smart is indeed thrown around a lot lately but without UX research a lot of companies can very quickly deliver "dumb" smart devices... As counter-intuive as that sounds.
I would argue the need to integrate a simple electromechanical timer that prevents cooking from engaging for up to 10 hours. The only real selling points of using a modern rice cooker are the automatic ceasing of cooking and the ability to offset the start of cooking time so one can wake up to rice being perfectly prepared ready for breakfast and/or arrive home from work to perfectly prepared rice ready for dinner. One can cover a similar level of safety from overcooked rice by using the oven cooking method rather than the stove top cooking method so that leaves the desirability of offseting the cooking time.
@@chiblast100xCould always just attach the rice cooker to 24 hour wall socket timer and problem solved.
Rice cookers with Wi-Fi and app notifications are the norm.
@@chiblast100x meanwhile I use a streamer to cook my rice, also fairly safe from overcooking, though it is not exactly the fastest method.
I have that same basic rice cooker, it makes great omelettes. My apartment stove went out, so I've been learning to cook anything and & everything in my 2 rice cookers.
You have got to write down how to make omelette in a rice cooker!
Please.
* goes on knees with tears pouring out of eye-sockets *
Please!
I've also used my rice cooker to make coffee on my moka pot when our stovetop broke 😅
I lived in China for a few years without an oven. Made cakes in my rice cooker:)
I made cake in my rice cooker. Actually threw pancake mix and got a giant pancake. Delicious
@@janwitkowsky8787 Om forget it scrambled eggs yes keep warm mix your ingredient add a little milk butter herbs on keep warm keep a eye on it and stir with a silicon spatula.Cheers
As someone who usually has to go back to make sure I heard something right every few seconds, I really appreciate people who put as much effort into their captions as you do- especially when you include "background" noise like when the water started to boil. The spirit of the end credits/screen is a wonderful bonus. Thank you! Now excuse me while I buy a simple rice cooker.
Who else came here from the Dankpods video about the rice cooker with "AI"?
I mean, I watched this video a long time ago, but had to watch it again after the shoutout! lol
Meeeee.
@3:53 A great example of how not everything needs a microprocessor-nor an Internet connection.
There's a reason used washers and dryers sell well on listing services.
Probably more reliable too
I think you need a Juicero, stat! 🍍😂
But the cooker needs an internet connection. It has to Google how long to boil the rice for!
As much as I love technology, I hate how everything has a micro-processor and an internet connection now. One super fancy concept I do kind of like is the idea of a fridge that knows when food has gone bad but I've yet to see a good implementation of it (there are some fridges where you manually type in the data, which is too much of a pain, and they can order the food for you when you run low which is a step too far for me).
Security on all these new devices is also atrocious as best, there are major botnets (collection of computer devices that share processing power to accomplish big things) which are used to hack into banks and government systems running off of low powered, unsecured IOT devices that will never be patched (even if there's a patch available). Aside from Google on my phone and Alexa on the FireTV in the living room I don't have any 'smart' speakers. For me it's not even about the privacy of my data (if they paid me for it I'd be happy to give it away) but about the potential for my otherwise well secured PC to be hacked (loss of money). For some people these devices can potentially compromise their physical security as well.
This must be my favorite episode, just because of the introduction of latent heat and foreshadowing future amazing topics, as well as explaining weird magnet behaviors. Not what I expected from a rice cooker.
What I think is really interesting about the interaction between the magnet and the spring is that it seems like part of what makes the change from "cook" to "warm" so quick and discrete is the relationship between Hooke's law and the inverse-square law. The magnet is stronger than the spring at close distances, but the spring easily overpowers the magnet once the button is far enough away, even after the temperature has settled back down and the magnet starts attracting again. I don't think you could get anything like this behavior with two springs, even if springs had something like a Curie point.
should be inverse-square law, right?
Sean ye^
That’s probably why they used the magnet instead of two springs then
You could get the same action with a bi-stable spring mechanism, I bet.
@@spherhy I had "inverse-square law" and then edited it after Googling. honestly it's been a while since I took physics so I'm not sure which one is right for magnetic force.
edit: ah, I think force is inverse-square and field strength is inverse-cube
Yep. This video convinced me to buy a rice cooker. One of these cheap ones like the one featured in the video. I love the engineering behind it and this video was literally the best advertisement there could've been. I love your videos. Please keep it up ❤
I've had this exact rice cooker for 10 years! I've never been so excited to see an appliance on UA-cam! I still use it all the time
Thanks, I just saw that one on sale last night for like eight bucks and was wondering if it would just be junk. Now I know, and can swing by and pick it up after work.
Perhaps a delicious chicken rice on your menu with a black soy gravy.. yummy!
I've been addicted to rice cookers for years. I had no idea why they worked, just knew they always reliably did. This was really interesting! And I agree - the most basic $10-$20 model works the best. I've never had one die on me, just wear the inner pot out eventually and have to get a new one.
As Harlan Ellison once wrote, "They say it's automatic, but actually you have to push this button."
Unlike his wonderful ancient toaster! No buttons on that thing!
Having my iPad in a different language and so having the subtitles on by default gifted me some of the best examples of humor in this channel at the end of the video. I love you, SPIRIT OF THE CREDITS. 🎉 I hope you recover from your existential crisis soon!