Automatic electric rice cooker
Arrocera eléctrica automática
- Date
- 1955 · confidence high
- Place
- Toshiba, Tokyo, Japan
- Credited to
- Yoshitada Minami (manufacturer) for Toshiba
- Field
- Tools
What it is
Electric pot that cooks rice and switches itself off using a bimetallic thermostat. It freed hours of daily domestic work in Asia and was the first universal Japanese household appliance.
What it led to
- The entry of household appliances into Asian homes
- The Japanese household appliance industry
- Fuzzy-logic rice cookers (1990) as the first domestic AI
Built on
- bimetallic thermostat
- electrical resistance (heating element)
Made possible
- fuzzy-logic home appliances
- kitchen robots