Xiaomi is moving into your home… with rice cookers
By
Xiaomi is moving into your home… with rice cookers
You’ve heard of Xiaomi’s smartphones, power banks, and even their air purifiers, but would you have expected a Xiaomi rice cooker? The Mi Induction Heating Pressure Rice Cooker is the first product under Xiaomi’s “Mi Ecosystem” sub-brand, and will be available at RM999, less than 40% the price of comparable high-end induction heating pressure rice cooker models from leading Japanese brands.
While precise pressure control has long been a strength associated only with Japanese rice cookers, the Mi Induction Heating Pressure Rice Cooker will employ a magnetic relief valve to allow it keep the internal pressure at exactly 1.2 times the atmospheric pressure.
Combined with advanced electromagnetic heating technology for even cooking and greater thermal efficiency, the Mi Induction Heating Pressure Rice Cooker is able to easily reach the optimal 105 degree Celsius temperature needed for more flavorful rice
No less than a 69-step process has been used to create the grey cast iron that is used for the lining material, and a PFA powder coating has also been incorporated to prevent rice from sticking to the bottom of the pot. The result is even heating with strong thermal process so that all your rice cooks evenly, with none of it sticking to the pot.
Interestingly, the Mi Induction Heating Pressure Rice Cooker is also a Wi-Fi enabled smart device that can be controlled via the Mi Home app. This means that you can scan the barcode of a bag of rice in the supermarket through the app and send it to the rice cooker and it will automatically adjust settings to best match it. More than 200 brands of rice are already supported, with more to come in the future.
Other than being able to set your own personal cooking preferences in the app, it also comes with recipes that you can use with the cooker, including brown rice, rice cakes and crispy rice so you won’t even need to know how to cook them. Just place the appropriate amount of rice in, select the recipe and let it run. With 2450 heating methods currently supported, it certainly seems like there will be ample recipes to choose from.
The Mi Induction Heating Pressure Rice Cooker will retail for RMB999 on Mi.com in China during Mi Fan Festival on April 6, but international pricing and availability has yet to be announced.
