Thanko Mini Disposable Rice Cooker - Handy from Japan

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It’s never too late (or early) to prepare for the next summer heat wave. In Japan, summer is especially hot, which means many night-time festivals, warm-weather yukata, and, of course, shaved ice! But whether or not you’re in Japan, you can still keep the summer heat at bay with these “cool” Japanese USB gadgets. USB Japanese Uchiwa Fan That’s because they’re actually a sleep aid device. “Oh, OK, so they play some sort of white noise to help you relax, right?” you might be guessing, but that’s not the case either, because these “earphones” don’t have any speakers at all. Instead, they have heaters.

Like the rice basket, other low-sugar rice cooker designs only provide the top water container as the means of filtering the starchy water that escapes during boiling. Kyoto hotel OMO5 Kyoto Gion offers Yojiya cosmetics Pretty Girl Room Stay for New Year’s season 4 views Pokémon GO melds with Tokyo’s traditional neighborhood for Asakusa Routes event, gets thumbs up from us 3 views Some of Thanko’s other ideas are blueberry jam and cream cheese pie and a potato salad, corn, and mayo pie. So here comes Thanko’s latest invention: a pair of what anyone looking at them would guess are earphones, but which play no music.Japanese company Thanko’s Super High-Speed One-Person Bento Box Rice Cooker is one of those cooking gadgets we never knew we desperately needed until after it was invented. A rice cooker so compact you can easily carry it with you to the office and cook rice at your desk, it’s allowed us to have freshly cooked grains on our workday lunch breaks. You can adjust the setting for three levels of warmth, and a timer can be set to automatically power down the device after 30 minutes, so that it’s not running all night long. Power is routed to the earphone-style heaters via USB cable, although with no internal battery you’ll have to connect or plug in the Mimipokka to some other power source. The Bento Box Rice Cooker is an electric rice cooker clad in a bento box form factor, so you can make exactly one serving of rice each time out, instead of ending up with much more rice than you need every time you cook. Like any proper appliance, you can hook it up to a wall outlet using an included electric plug for cooking, with the option to detach the electric cable completely when not in use, so the darn thing looks like a regular bento box. Seriously, no one would even suspect that you can cook rice in this thing. When thinking outside the box is your business model, though, there’s always the risk that your designers might think a little too far outside the boundaries of conventional logic, and Thanko recently shared a photo of one of their past products that ended up being a sales failure.

Having a low-sugar rice cooker would allow you to reduce the content of starch which is highly present in white rice. As the fat drips down and completely avoids the heater, the smoke issue is removed while the meat is actually more healthy! As each skewer is constantly spinning, they are evenly cooked and super tender - watching them spin is surprisingly addictive! Safety & Emergency Buy Japanese emergency and safety goods for earthquake, floods, and other disastersThe next best choice is the Toshiba Low Carb Multi-functional Rice Cooker because it offers the best value for your money!

Once you have the bottom crust in place, add in your filling. In Thanko’s example photo below they’re using instant curry roux for a meaty savory pie, but the only limit is your imagination. Wait, how are you supposed to load all of your pots, pans, and silverware in that thing?” you might be asking. You don’t, because this is a dish washer in the most literal sense of the term… The Japanese cooking gadget maker has an uncanny ability to know just what we want to help us achieve our home chef ambitions, and last year they created the Pie Maker, a handy little plug-in machine that let you cook a pair of mini pies. It was a great idea, especially considering that very few homes in Japan have a large, dedicated oven for baking. The only problem was that the pies were pretty small, so now Thanko is offering the Whole Pie Maker.Whenever Japanese gadget maker Thanko comes up with a new idea, you can expect it to be baffling, brilliant, or maybe a little of both. The company describes its goal as to create useful, interesting solutions to everyday problems, like clip-on fans to keep your armpits from sweating or a personal kitchen appliance that just makes pies. This is the method of separating the cooked rice from the remaining glutinous water at the bottom of the inner pot. Homemade pie is one of life’s great simple pleasures. Whether it’s with a sweet or savory filling, a mouthful of warm deliciousness sandwiched between perfectly cooked flaky crust is a surefire way to shake off the wintertime blues on a cold day. The Whole Pie Maker, which Thanko also calles the “Okina Pie Maker” (meaning “Big Pie Maker” in Japanese), will bake you a pie with a 26-centimeter (10.2-inch) diameter. Included with the device is a circular cutting dye to be used with pre-made pie sheets, letting you stamp out the bottom and top crusts.