To provide a rice cooker wherein it is possible to suppress an opening/closing valve provided in a rice gruel return hole from unintentionally falling off.
The rice cooker includes: a rice cooker body 1; an inner pot 2 detachably housed in the rice cooker body 1; a lid body 10 covering an upper opening of the rice cooker body 1; heating means 3 for heating the inner pot 2; and a steam port unit 20 provided in the lid body 10 and discharging steam produced in the inner pot 2 to outside the rice cooker body 1 during rice cooking. The steam port unit 20 includes: an introduction port 22a for guiding steam produced in the inner pot 2 into the steam port unit 20; the rice gruel return hole 28 for returning rice gruel in the steam port unit 20 into the inner pot 2; and the opening/closing valve 29 that opens or closes the rice gruel return hole depending on the pressure in the inner pot 2. The steam port unit is provided with a filter 30 that has a first small hole 31a whose the diameter is smaller than the outside diameter of the opening/closing valve 29 in a plane view and covers the opening/closing valve 29 from the inner pot 2 side.
NEGISHI KAZUYOSHI
TOMITA SHINJI
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC HOME APPL
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