Experts believe that the views of Cantonese people have some truth. At present, it is recognized by Chinese that Cantonese people are the most fastidious in cooking and the most scientific in diet. Zhanjiang and Pearl River Delta in Guangdong can produce 70 million rice cookers a year, which are in a monopoly position in domestic sales and export share, and are veritable industrial bases. To some extent, Guangdong people's cooking concept will affect the eating habits of the whole people in the future.
Now many of our families are used to cooking with old-fashioned rice cookers, and find it convenient to have this product. Rice cookers are all the same. What are the high-end and low-end ones? They have never used new rice cookers, especially those high-end good ones, so they may not understand how much changes modern products containing many new technologies will bring to their cooking life.
If the rice is delicious, tasty and nutritious, then the soaking of rice by water, the temperature change during heating, the length of heating time, the air pressure during heating and the uniformity of heating body should be scientifically realized or controlled. We have such a life experience that if raw water and raw rice are directly put into the rice cooker, the steamed rice will be a little hard and feel undercooked, because the rice cooker will start to heat up after the skin is soaked in water. At this time, the appearance of the rice is cooked first, but there is not enough water in the rice core to cook the rice thoroughly. This old-fashioned rice cooker has no control over the soaking speed, temperature, air pressure and heating uniformity of rice. And today's high-end rice cookers are very particular. Zhanjiang Hongzhi Electric Company, which is good at exporting high-grade rice cookers, has a doctor named You Jin, who is known as an expert in rice cookers. He explained to us that at present, micro-pressure rice cookers are controlled by pressurization and heating during cooking, and the temperature and pressure at different stages are different. The computer chip in the rice cooker is not simple linear control, but curve control. For example, a good pressure valve should control the pressure. To heat rice evenly, it is necessary to work hard on the inner container. Hongzhi's arc-shaped thick kettle liner and arc-shaped heating plate solve this problem: first, thick things are heated evenly and will not go up and down suddenly; Secondly, the change of the shape of the heating plate makes the heating position not limited to the bottom of the inner pot, but affects the whole rice in the inner pot. The rice cooked in this way is very delicious.
In fact, the current rice cookers have gone far beyond the limitations of rice cookers used to make staple food and steamed buns, with more varieties and higher grades. Some can make cakes, some can make delicious soup (called soup pot), and some pressure cookers can cook chickens without water, which is equivalent to the level of professional chefs.
So, what brands of high-end rice cookers are there on the market? There are Panasonic, Hongzhi and Supor. Of course, domestic products will be more affordable.
With the progress of material technology, nutrition research, industrial design and chip technology, the function of rice cookers will become stronger and stronger, and the food made will become more and more exquisite. Therefore, we can't buy rice cookers with the old concept, and compare the price of rice cookers with the past few tens of dollars. Fortunately, the country's management requirements for the rice cooker industry are also improving. Dr Ma Dejun, Secretary-General of the National Household Appliance Standardization Committee, and Dr You Jin of Hongzhi Electric Appliance Co., Ltd., who led the standard revision, revealed that China began to revise the old performance standards of rice cookers in the late 1990s, and a grading system for rice cookers will be introduced at that time. At that time, the grade of rice cookers was obvious when consumers bought them. We believe that there will be more and better rice cookers in the near future.