On Sun 19 Feb 2006 01:28:16p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Florida?
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> James wrote:
>> Does anyone have a cooker that works on the double boiler principle?
>> You have water outside the inner pot. When that water dries out the
>> cooker turns off.
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> Yes, Tatung's simplest rice cooker works that way. The inner pot
> holds measured rice and measured water. The outer pot is what always
> looks like an amazingly small measured amount of water. When that
> water is gone, the rice cooker switches itself to "warm" and the
> cooking process finishes as the temp slowly drops for 25 minutes or so.
> The cooker has worked without any kind of problem for 15 years. I
> parted with $20 for it at our local Asian market. Best small-appliance
> buy I ever made.
It sounds like yours might be similar to this one, although this model has
only a 3 cup capacity, which is suitable for our use. I think I would like
something simple like this. I don't need "fuzzy logic". :-) Can you
comment? Thanks!
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