Electrical Appliance Maintenance : Rice Cooker

 It's a vacation day fro you and you all preparing some foods to enjoy. Food means like heaven when it's delicious. You need to cook that food to make it like heaven,but unfortunately you rice cooker isn't working. OMG!!!! what you going to do dummies. Well pack up your tools dummies because we going to repair a rice cooker.

Rice cooker works as same as electric kettle and electric iron box. It change rice cooker turn electrical energy into heat energy. You need water to achieve your rice cooker can cook your rice and make steam to make fishy food. YUM!!! YUM!!!.

It has same component that has in electric kettle and electric iron box. A heating element and thermocouple. As usual a heating element turn electrical energy into heat energy. SO the heating element has resistance to make heat. Rice cooker comes with variety of design. But in common inside a rice cooker has huge pot made of aluminum. So when the heating element heating, It need water to distribute heat to the pot.That's the reason water is needed.

In thermocouple works like electric kettle (Not like electric iron box. It has thermostat to control heat). When the water or food heat at in higher temperature, the thermocouple will turn off the rice cooker immediately. So Life will be easy if you have rice cooker.

how it maintain a rice cooker in order to make it last long.

1) Check the continuity of power cord of your rice cooker. If the cord fails to power your rice cooker, you need to replace new power cord. The continuity of the cable must in  0 ohm.

2) Check the resistance of heating element. If the heating element fails, you food wont cook and your need to use your stove. So use multi meter and check the resistance of the heating element. If the reading is not accurate than your reading done by calculation, you need to replace new on. Use R=V/I to calculate the resistance value.

3) Check the continuity of thermocouple. If the thermocouple fails, it also damage the heating element and your rice cooker. You can feel your rice cooker too hot and don't turn of automatically, that the sign the thermocouple get spoil. So use multi meter to check continuity on thermocouple,if it fail replace new one.The continuity value must be 0 ohm.

TO MAKE YOUR RICE COOKER LAST LONG CHECK THE COMPONENT ONCE IN TWO MONTHS. IF DON'T WORK COMPLETELY THROW AWAY AND BUY NEW ONE. MAYBE PANASONIC RICE COOKER IS GOOD I GUESS.