Our rice cooker at home is five years old. It’s a simple rice cooker that has an attached cover. I prefer the one we have in the Philippines that has a separate cover. My mother-in-law has a newish Korean rice cooker. It’s actually a rice cooker/pressure cooker/slow cooker in one. It doesn’t take a long time to cook rice here unlike with ordinary machines.

Rice cooker is called “밥솥” (bap sot) in Korean and some of the most famous brands are Cuckoo, Lihom, Kuchen and Bubang. I never expected that rice cooker could be fancy and “high-tech” as some of them are here in Korea. The prices are fancy too!