preface:

Since ancient times, food is the most important thing for people. The author lives in the south, where three meals a day are mostly rice. The food here is quite diversified and the snacks are very rich, so the local eating habits are not very fixed. However, the author has always been focusing on rice for three meals, although occasionally there will be others to adjust. But generally speaking, most of them are meals. For this reason, the author has also begun to pursue the electric cooker. In order to cook more delicious rice. The Mijia pressure IH rice cooker I experienced this time is a smart rice cooker with unique features that can cook delicious rice.

Unpacking:

The packaging of Mijia's pressure IH electric rice surprised the author. It was, uh, heavy when lifted from the ground. This is the first feeling of the author about the pressure of Mijia IH rice cooker. The author has used 5 or 6 rice cookers. The first time I used such a heavy rice cooker, Mijia pressure IH rice cooker is at least one more than the two I used before. Moreover, Mijia pressure IH rice cooker is still 3L, and the author uses 4L rice cooker, so the author has more expectations for Mijia pressure IH rice cooker.

The Mijia pressure IH rice cooker is packed in an environmentally friendly paper box, which is very good and thick. The inside of the rice cooker is completely covered with foam material. Such packaging can ensure that the Mijia pressure IH rice cooker can withstand most of the accidental extrusion in the transportation project. The design style of the package is the same as that of Xiaomi. They are both minimalist. Only the logo of Mijia is on the front, which is very grand.

After picking up the foam material above, the author was surprised by the packaging inside. In addition to the protection of Mijia pressure IH rice cooker, there is also a handbag made of non-woven fabric outside. The Mijia pressure IH rice cooker is very heavy. With a handbag, users can easily take the Mijia pressure IH rice cooker out of the box.

The Mijia Pressure IH rice cooker is very beautiful. The author liked it at the first sight. The Mijia Pressure IH rice cooker is mainly white, with a crystal clear appearance and super texture. The upper part is the exhaust hole, and the bottom part has three physical buttons, namely, appointment, start, and select/cancel. The outer circle of the start key is the dial breathing light, and there is a hidden LED digital time display screen, time adjustment button, and cooking menu on the top. These are exactly where the transparent film is.

There is only one cover opening button printed with Mijia's logo on the side. The buttons are electroplated, very smooth, and can be used as mirrors.

The edges and corners of Mijia Pressure IH rice cooker are very round. The whole body of the rice cooker has no edges and corners and is streamlined.

There is only a wifi indicator light and a reset hidden button on the back. If there is no pairing or any strange problem with wifi during use, it is absolutely right to poke the Reset button.

The Mijia pressure IH cooker is designed with a separate power cord, and the power cord jack is located on the right side of the Mijia pressure IH cooker. Through the observation around the Mijia pressure IH cooker, the author found that the Mijia pressure IH cooker does not have a handle design, which means that the Mijia pressure IH cooker can only be moved. However, considering that rice cookers and other products normally do not move. Without handles, it looks more integrated and concise. It is also an advantage. However, the bright and clean surroundings also indicate that there is no slot for placing rice spoons and porridge spoons.

There are a lot of heat dissipation holes on the upper and lower parts of the back of the Mijia pressure IH cooker. The depressions on the left and right sides are used to let go when moving the cooker. In the middle is the nameplate of the Mijia pressure IH cooker, which is printed with the parameter information of the Mijia pressure IH cooker. There are four foot pads around the nameplate, but only two have anti slip rubber pads.

The physical keys on the top cover of Mijia pressure IH rice cooker are slightly raised, and the hidden display screen and keys cannot be seen under normal circumstances. This will make the upper cover look more concise.

The removable inner cover and anti blocking cover can be seen on the back of the upper cover when the upper cover is opened through the front cover opening button. The inner cover is also etched with the cautions of "Pay attention to high temperature, please remove it for cleaning after use". When the upper cover is opened, it can be in a 90 ° right angle shape, which will not prevent the user from cooking. There is a metal contact on the left side, which is the temperature sensor of Mijia pressure IH rice cooker, and its function is naturally large.

The anti blocking cover can be removed by sliding to the left. The anti blocking cover is not fixed through the chute, but fixed by a magnet in the middle of the right side.

The inner liner of the rice cooker is made of gray cast iron, which is very heavy when held in hand. Half of the reason why the rice cooker is very heavy is due to this liner. Gray cast iron is selected as the base material of the liner for rice cooker, which has better thermal conductivity and heat storage. Because the flake graphite contained in gray cast iron can play a good role in thermal conductivity, a large number of sand holes form vacuum holes after casting, and have excellent heat storage, which is easier to retain and conduct heat. It can also make food evenly heated during cooking, and retain the delicious taste of food materials.

Sensor and heating module of rice cooker. The workmanship is very exquisite, the details are handled very well.

It is made of stainless steel and has a warning label on it to remind users to protect themselves.

The wide and shallow design is adopted for the inner liner of rice cooker. The inner liner has a larger radian and a larger heating area, which is more suitable for the rolling of rice. Compared with the round flat bottom tank, the wide shallow tank has a larger heating area at the bottom, which can transmit heat to rice more efficiently, and rice is more fully heated. At the same time, the concave surface of the broad and shallow liner has a large radian, which effectively cuts into the sharp rolling of rice, so that each grain of rice is evenly heated, and the cooked rice grains are large and full.

The water level for cooking and porridge cooking is also marked on the tank. In addition, the cooking is also divided into Northeast rice and Silao rice, and the porridge is divided into thin and thick.

Rice sticks to the pan, which is difficult to clean. This is the pain point of traditional rice cookers. This is because most traditional rice cookers use water-based non stick fluoro paint, which is mainly provided by PTFE. The surface is relatively rough, and the non stick is low. It is difficult to clean rice stuck on the cooker. To solve this problem, the rice cooker uses Daikin PFA powder coating, which is commonly used in high-end rice cookers in Japan. The surface is smooth and non sticky. If the pot is turned upside down, the rice will be poured out intact.

A list of accessories for rice cookers. There are only a few accessories, such as measuring cups, spoons, porridge spoons, power lines and instructions.

Although the rice spoon and porridge spoon are not very important accessories, Michaelis didn't let it go at will, but made careful improvements. It not only uses the higher quality food grade PP material, but also adds a foot pad design on the back of the rice spoon, so you can put the rice spoon on the table with confidence every time you fill the rice, and don't worry about rice sticking to the table, let alone rice pollution.

The power cord, a very similar accessory, is more beautiful after Mijia's design. The joint between the wire materials at both ends and the plug has been specially designed to make the joint part not as easy to disconnect as the general wire materials, so that the core inside is exposed.

The measuring cup is also carefully packed in non-woven cloth bags to avoid stains. The measuring cup adopts a rounded rectangular design, and has a small handle on the edge, which is convenient for users to take rice. The scale is printed on the right side of the measuring cup, where users can master the dosage.

The product manual and quick disassembly guide of rice cooker are also very good. In particular, the instruction manual, with both pictures and text, is comprehensive and meticulous. It is absolutely a must for new users to get started. Rice cookers are very simple to use, rice cookers are no exception, but there are many small details, which will be more detailed through the instructions. The author recommends that every new user read this manual carefully.

Experience:

Before starting to use rice cooker, the author naturally needs to clean and disinfect the detachable inner cover and inner liner with boiling water. Press the inner cover latch above the inner cover to take down the removable inner cover, which is very simple. At this time, the bubble breaker can be seen. Pull the whole bubble breaker outward to take it down easily.

On the back of the removable inner cover, the middle part on the left is a return valve, and the upper and lower parts on the right are pressure limiting valves.

The front of the removable inner cover is a pressure regulator.

The front and back sides of the anti blocking cover.

The bubble breaker is fixed to each other through the bottom snap. Pull the lock outward to open the bubble breaker and remove the sealing strip.

After disinfection, the rice cooker can be used in a meeting after reverse installation. After powering on, the indicator light on the appointment button lights up, the breathing light around the start button lights up, the LED digital time display screen, the time adjustment button, and the cooking menu also light up together.

After successful startup, the lighted key menu disappears, and only the digital time and the default fine cooking mode remain on.

At this time, the wifi indicator on the back of the cooker flashes orange, indicating that the wifi is not connected.

As a product of Xiaomi ecological chain, it is naturally directly connected and managed through Xiaomi smart home APP. Open the smart home APP, and the APP will immediately prompt you to find a Mijia pressure IH rice cooker. Click it to connect. After you select the wifi to be connected, the rest is left to be completed by the APP itself. It should be noted here that if the wifi indicator flashes blue when connecting first, please poke the wifi reset button under the wifi indicator to let the wifi enter the orange pending connection state again. After the connection is completed, the wifi indicator light is always blue, and the smart home APP will automatically update the plug-in required for the rice cooker.

When you are ready, you can begin to experience the rice cooker. On the APP home page, various function keys will appear, and there is also the practice of chocolate mousse cake. The APP has quite a number of built-in function menus, which can be used for fine cooking, fast cooking, porridge cooking, heat preservation, cake making, yogurt making, hot rice, cooking, rice sweet pig, and rice fast cooking. You can also view more recipes, which is very powerful.

At the top right corner of the APP is the "More" menu, which contains various setting options. Many settings can be made for the rice cooker and after cooking. At the same time, rice seeds can also be added here. Learn about various aspects of the rice cooker by using tips. You can also view solutions to some common problems here. Firmware can also be updated here.

When the APP starts to update the firmware, the numerical time display will change to English. For example, the author's computer will display UP6E. And the breathing light on the dial next to the start key also lights up. Very vivid.

Among more recipes, there are many excellent recipes for users to choose from. Each one is illustrated with pictures and texts, from the name, finished product weight, production time, prepared ingredients, steps, etc., all are very detailed, and illustrated with pictures and texts, almost equivalent to hand to hand teaching. Most importantly, these menus can be directly realized through rice cookers. The electric cooker has many functions, such as cooking and cake making. The author has never seen such a versatile electric cooker, which really surprised the author.

The cooking of rice cookers also has a variety of users. The refined cooking usually takes one hour. You can choose rice varieties and taste. For quick cooking, only rice varieties can be selected instead of taste, but it only takes 40 minutes. Intelligent setting duration for porridge cooking. The heat preservation function can keep the cooked rice at a certain temperature before starting to use, so as to avoid finding that the rice is cold when preparing to eat. The maximum holding time is 24 hours.

Cake and yogurt are all in different recipes, which are realized by rice cookers. This is a very interesting thing. It takes 50 minutes to make cakes, 8 hours to make yogurt, and only 30 minutes to cook hot meals.

The cooking function can choose its own running time. There is no choice between sweet cooking and express cooking.

Each kind of rice has different characteristics. The common cooking steps can also be used to cook food, but it is not necessarily the most delicious solution of this kind of rice. Most people may not know how to cook a kind of rice to make delicious food. Now, the author directly hands this problem to the rice cooker, which has accumulated more than 2000 heating schemes through big data. A great variety of rice can be detected.

When selecting the cooking mode, users can select rice varieties. The APP defaults to many rice varieties, but the rice I want to cook this time is not among these already set rice varieties. The author tested the speed and accuracy of code scanning through four different meters. Finally, only one of the four different kinds of rice can be directly recognized by scanning the code, and the other three can not find the data, but you can find similar cooking schemes by taking the front view, rice name, and rice brand. Make sure the cooked rice is also delicious.

The rice varieties identified and photographed by scanning the code will be displayed on the rice variety selection page. Under the description here, the oil sticky rice of water carp is scanned successfully, and the North Pure Black Rice is unrecognizable. These two kinds of rice are purchased online by the author, which belong to a large range of users. The other two kinds of rice are the most popular varieties purchased locally, which are also the most commonly eaten by the author.

The author eats alone, so only one cup of rice is enough. The oil of the carp in the water is sticky to rice, and the particles are very full. This is what my friend has always recommended. This is my second time to taste it, and the first time to eat at my friend's home.

Such a cup of tea is introduced into the tank. It looks like a lot, but in fact it is just a little.

Go to wash rice first, then add some water. As the author is not clear whether the oil sticky rice belongs to the northeast rice or the silk seedling rice, he has to add the water level to the middle of the two kinds of rice. It needs to be mentioned here that it is not easy to clean rice because of the heavy weight of the tank. Users should be careful about falling.

After adding rice and water, you can start cooking. Cooking can be operated through the buttons on the rice cooker, or through the APP remote operation. The author naturally chose the intelligent home APP to control cooking remotely. In the APP, you can choose not only rice varieties, but also taste orientations. The taste can be divided into three categories: soft and delicious, fragrant and glutinous, and strong and Q elastic. What I experienced this time was the palatable taste of fragrant and glutinous. When adjusting the taste curve, the unit is hardness. The palatability of fragrant glutinous rice selected by the author is 55% hardness. Each adjustment of hardness will change the corresponding curve. Very meticulous.

Originally, I wanted to test the reservation function, but if the time difference was not big, I would start cooking immediately. So although I chose to make an appointment, I actually started right away. After starting cooking, the APP will also display. First, a temperature curve will appear at the bottom. The top of the curve is the cooking steps, the middle is the author's geographical location, and the top is the cooking completion time of the rice cooker and the animation status of the rice cooker. At the top is the cooking mode and the type of rice. As time goes on, the cooking mode and temperature curve follow the change.

When the cooker starts to work, the dial breathing light on the cooker will light up, and the digital time display and cooking mode will also light up. The dial breathing light and the digital time display have the same function. They are used for counting down.

When cooking, the phone does not need to remain in the APP. After exiting and entering, the status of the rice cooker will be displayed. At the final stage, the estimated completion time may change. The author found that his completion time was early.

After the rice cooker finishes its work, the mobile phone will receive a push message, prompting that it is ready to start cooking, as well as the relevant content information and cancellation picture of this cooking, and clean the upper cover. At the same time, the rice cooker automatically turns to the heat preservation state.

In fact, in the middle of the cooking, the room was already full of the aroma of rice. When the author opened the lid, a thick smell of greasy rice came. The cooked rice is very beautiful. The grains are 100% fully cooked, which is impossible to be sandwiched. Moreover, it is heated evenly, and will not form such hard lumps as the pot. So the author is very satisfied. However, this time, the water level of the author may be added incorrectly, or the characteristics of the oil sticky rice itself may cause the cooked rice to be slightly sticky, and some rice will still stand on the pot.

Whether people are iron rice or steel, it is important to eat quickly. A cup of rice will probably add a small bowl of rice to this large bowl. Just enough for the author to eat alone. The cooked rice tastes very good, sweet, soft and glutinous, and is very delicious. The author made an exception and ate more than half a bowl. However, it is true that the author said that there is an excessive amount of water. But this is just a little bit and has little impact. And when the author had dinner and wanted to wash the bladder, he found that the residual traces of rice that had been stuck on the bladder before had dried, and would fall off if he moved his finger slightly. After those are torn apart, the inner liner is very clean and almost needs no washing. It is indeed a rice cooker, which can effectively avoid sticking to the pot.

Summary:

After this period of in-depth experience of Mijia's pressure IH electric rice cooker, whether it is cooking or porridge, the effect is no less than that of the electric rice cooker used by the author before, and the author is very satisfied. The author is very satisfied with the appearance, material, workmanship, function, etc., but there are still some areas that need to be improved. The identification of rice varieties needs to be further enriched and improved. In addition, I hope to produce more high-capacity styles. The author often has guests at home, and the previous 4L is sometimes not enough, 3L will not be enough, so we hope to launch more models with larger capacity, enrich the product line, and meet the needs of different users. The author speculates that Mijia should be the company that promotes smart home kitchen appliances on the Xiaomi ecological chain, and hopes to see more smart kitchen appliances launched by Mijia in the future. I'm looking forward to it!