Patent ID: 9700172
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: A47J

Claim:
1. A multi-menu rice cooker comprising: an inner pot for containing objects to be heated; a stirring mechanism for stirring the objects inside the inner pot by a rotation operation; and a stirring controller for controlling a continuous rotation period in which the stirring mechanism is rotated continuously and a rotation stop period in which the rotation of the stirring mechanism is stopped to turn back inward of the inner pot a cooking ingredient that has been displaced outward within the inner pot by a centrifugal force; and a cooking menu storage that stores a ratio of the rotation stop period to the continuous rotation period for each of a plurality of predetermined cooking menus, wherein during cooking in which block-like pieces of one or more cooking ingredients selected from meats, fishes and vegetables as well as a liquid soup, which are the objects to be heated, are rotated by the stirring mechanism, the stirring controller controls the ratio based on a selected predetermined menu among the plurality of predetermined menus, and the rotation stop period and the continuous rotation period are alternately repeated.