Method for cooking rice
OwnerToshiko Moriinventor
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Abstract
A method for cooking rice in a microwave oven including the steps of placing water and rice in a container in a predetermined ratio; substantially sealing the water and the rice in the container; placing the container, containing the water and the rice, into the microwave oven; setting the microwave oven to a low power level and operating the microwave oven at that level for a first period; setting the microwave oven to a high power level and operating the microwave oven at that level for a second period; and either setting the microwave oven to a low power level and operating the microwave oven at that level for a third period or letting the unopened container stand for said third period.
Claims38
A method for cooking rice in a microwave oven including the steps of:
- (a) placing water and rice in a container in a predetermined ratio;
- (b) substantially sealing the water and the rice in the container;
- (c) placing the container, containing the water and the rice, into the microwave oven;
- (d) setting the microwave oven to a low power level and operating the microwave oven at that level for a first period;
- (e) setting the microwave oven to a high power level and operating tile microwave oven at that level for a second period;
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- (f) either setting the microwave oven to a low power level and operating the microwave oven at that level for a third period or letting the unopened container stand for said third period.
(Amended) A method claimed in any one claim of the previous claims, wherein the microwave oven is a 1,100 Watt phase controlled type microwave oven and, for 2 cups (the cup measuring 180 mL by volume) of rice, the first period is substantially 10 minutes, the second period is substantially 10 minutes and the third period is substantially 5 minutes.
A method as claimed in any one of the preceding claims, wherein egress of water vapour from the container is substantially precluded during cooking.
A container for cooking water and short grain rice in a predetermined ratio, including a plurality of water level markings on an inner surface of the container, where each marking of said markings indicates the level to which the container should be filled with water for cooking a corresponding number of cups of short grain rice, the cup for measuring short grain rice being of a predetermined volume so that the water/rice ratio, by volume, is substantially in the range of 1.3 to 1.4.
(Amended) A container for cooking water and long grain rice in a predetermined ratio, including a plurality of water level markings on an inner surface of the container, where each marking of said markings indicates the level to which the container should be filled with water for cooking a corresponding number of cups of long grain rice, the cup for measuring long grain rice being of a predetermined volume so that the water/rice ratio, by volume, is substantially 1.2.
(Amended) A container for cooking rice and water, including a first set of water level markings on a portion of an inner surface of the container and a second set of water level markings on a further portion of the inner surface of the container, wherein each marking of said first set of markings corresponds to a number of cups of short grain rice to be cooked and indicates the level to which the container should be filled with water so that the water/rice ratio, by volume, is substantially in the range of 1.3 to 1.4 and wherein each marking of said second set of markings corresponds to a number of cups of long grain rice 16 to be cooked and indicates the level to which the container should be filled with water to ensure that the water/rice ratio, by volume, is substantially 1.2, wherein the cup for measuring the cups of short grain rice and long grain rice is of a predetermined volume.
A microwave oven being programmable to operate at a low power level for a first predetermined period;
- operate at a high power level for a second predetermined period;
- and operate at a low power level for a third predetermined period.
A container for cooking water and short grain rice in a predetermined ratio, including a plurality of level markings, wherein each marking of said markings indicates the level to which the container is filled with water for cooking a corresponding number of cups of short grain rice, the cup for measuring short grain rice being of a predetermined volume so that the water/rice ratio, by volume, is substantially in the range of 1.3 to 1.4.
A container for cooking water and long grain rice in a predetermined ratio, including a plurality of level markings, wherein each marking of said markings indicates the level to which the container is filled with water for cooking a corresponding number of cups of long grain rice, the cup for measuring long grain rice being of a predetermined volume so that the water/rice ratio, by volume, is substantially 1.2.
(Amended) A container for cooking rice and water, including a first set of level markings and a second set of level markings, wherein each marking of said first set of markings corresponds to a number of cups of short grain rice to be cooked and indicates the level to which the container should be filled with water so that the water/rice ratio, by volume, is substantially in the range of 1.3 to 1.4, and wherein each marking of said second set of markings corresponds to a number of cups of long grain rice to be cooked and indicates the level to which the container should be filled with water to ensure that the water/rice ratio, by volume, is substantially 1.2, the cup for measuring both the short grain rice and the long grain rice being of a predetermined volume.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.