Khon Kaen students get foreign acclaim for new sticky-rice cooker

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Students get foreign acclaim for new sticky-rice cooker
Pornpan Srikapa
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- An energy-saving sticky-rice cooker device invented by a team of Mathayom 6 students from Khon Kaen's Ubon Rat Phitthaya Khom School has won five awards in the 10th Taipei International Invention Show and Technomart (INST) 2014.

The show was held in Taiwan from September 18-21.

The sticky-rice cooker was submitted to the "Move World Together" campaign in the competition. It won the Honorable Mention Awards, Special Awards from South Korea, Qatar and Taiwan, and the TIIIA Award for an excellent Invention from the TIIIA Outstanding Diploma.

Teacher Chetthakorn Pracharoj, who disclosed the award-winning invention yesterday, said he was helping the students to register an invention patent, while they experimented to improve the invention's commercial potential.

The "Electric Sticky Rice Cooker", cooked rice with superheated stream and produced the soft and pleasant-smelling rice in 30-35 minutes. It can reduce the amount of water and energy used in cooking rice and also keep the cooked rice warm and soft for a longer while, Chetthakorn said.

The device was powered by electricity - was about ten minutes faster than a stove cooker which also produced dirty soot and smoke - and its cylindrical body was made of woven bamboo, he said. The device could be easier to clean than the normal cooking set, he added.

Team members Krissada Joysa, Natthawut Srisompan, Thanyares Thongyos, Prapassorn Pankhot, and Namfon Klongkhoksung - all studied at Mathayom 6 level.

Namfon said the project taught her to seek an inspiration to apply to problem solving. The team looked at the traditional sticky-rice cooking set and thought about how time-consuming and how much water it used while subjecting the kitchen to dirty soot, she said. So they came up with the electric sticky rice cooker idea. "We didn't know we could go so far and our work received attention from experts who then provided us with additional knowledge to improve it so we can apply for a patent for it," she added.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Students-get-foreign-acclaim-for-new-sticky-rice-c-30244499.html

-- The Nation 2014-10-01

[ozsamurai]

a whole 10 mins faster...super heated steam....AND it keeps it warm..... so much for the energy claims.... Just sayin'.

Oz

[BKKdreaming]

a picture would be nice, but a google search did not show anything

Good they tried, but could you just make an adapter to use the rice cooker everyone already has ?

[NeverSure]

Apparently some people don't understand Thainess. Using bamboo for cooking is revolutionary in itself. It's a giant leap forward in cooking evolution. Making steam instead of heating water with electricity is unheard of and will make the history books.

This will go into the history museums right next to the wheel.

[khunbillmex]

Here in Mexico, when we can sometimes get Sticky Rice [without a 9 hr drive to the US], my wife makes it in the microwave in about 15 minutes and it comes out great.

[klikster]

Yes, really a shame these students spend time "thinking" and developing alternatives rather than stealing motorbikes.

[kiddeemak]

lol lay off guys, it got awards in S.Korea and Singapore amongst other places so Im sure it has some real value

Thailand needs more of this

[chrisrazz]

This has always been a bugbear of mine. At my place, sticky rice is a rather long process, requiring an overnight soak, followed in the morning by preparing a charcoal fire to steam the rice in a conical bamboo basket. The array of dishes that are prepared to accompany the rice also take considerable time to prepare. I doubt this amazing new development will get much traction amongst the sticky rice traditionalists, who, given the fact that they still insist on eating this way are not entirely time poor. In fact, when you add the time for hunting and gathering required for such 'cuisine' time is not really a consideration. This new contraption will just give them an additional 10 minutes of not doing much.

[IsaanUSA]

Surely this still requires the over night soak?

[khunsiam]

This is ridiculous, since years I cook the sticky rice in an ordinary electric ricecooker without soaking it first, just use a bit more water!

[fredlaw]

Those who comment about saving 10 min worth of electricity need to multiply tha 10 min times the millions of families that may be buying this item. That's a lot of energy saved worldwide dongs to the kids

[klikster]

Apparently some people don't understand Thainess. Using bamboo for cooking is revolutionary in itself. It's a giant leap forward in cooking evolution. Making steam instead of heating water with electricity is unheard of and will make the history books.

This will go into the history museums right next to the wheel.

.. and others don't understand "farangness" ..

NS, did you never do something at age 14 that made your parents proud?

[BKKdreaming]

Ok......I am going to ask a dumb question...

What is sticky rice ?

is it a special kind of rice or just the way you cook regular rice ?

I always add extra water in my rice cooker because I want to eat "chunks" of rice and not chase grains of rice around my plate

But I know here in the USA most people like rice that does not "stick" together.

[klikster]

Ok......I am going to ask a dumb question...

What is sticky rice ?

is it a special kind of rice or just the way you cook regular rice ?

I always add extra water in my rice cooker because I want to eat "chunks" of rice and not chase grains of rice around my plate

But I know here in the USA most people like rice that does not "stick" together.

Glutinous rice (Oryza sativa var. glutinosa; also called sticky rice, sweet rice or waxy rice) is a type of ricegrown mainly in Southeast and East Asia, which has opaque grains, very low amylose content, and is especially sticky when cooked. It is called glutinous (< Latin glūtinōsus)^[1] in the sense of being glue-like or sticky, and not in the sense of containing gluten. While often called "sticky rice", it differs from non-glutinous strains of japonica rice which also become sticky to some degree when cooked. There are numerous cultivars of glutinous rice, which include japonica, indica, and tropical japonica strains. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutinous_rice

[ozsamurai]

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Those who comment about saving 10 min worth of electricity need to multiply tha 10 min times the millions of families that may be buying this item. That's a lot of energy saved worldwide dongs to the kids

and then you need to consider those millions of families using the keep warm function for hours a day.... seriously read the article.

Oz

[krisb]

Here in Mexico, when we can sometimes get Sticky Rice [without a 9 hr drive to the US], my wife makes it in the microwave in about 15 minutes and it comes out great.

That's cool, how does she do that?

[nisakiman]

Our rice cooker (Sharp Computerice) cooks sticky rice without pre-soaking it. Makes nice sticky rice, too. And being quite new, it's fairly energy efficient.

That said, I'm all for these kids pursuing new ways of doing old things. Made from bamboo? Sounds interesting. I'd like to see it in operation and taste the fruits of its labour.

Good luck to them. If they can patent the idea and find a commercial partner willing / able to market it at reasonable cost, they should be on a winner. Lots of people in Asia like good sticky rice.

[sirineou]

Ok......I am going to ask a dumb question...

What is sticky rice ?

is it a special kind of rice or just the way you cook regular rice ?

I always add extra water in my rice cooker because I want to eat "chunks" of rice and not chase grains of rice around my plate

But I know here in the USA most people like rice that does not "stick" together.

Moderators please help me out with this, but..

I think that there is a TVF rule that anyone who does not know what is sticky rice

Is not allowed to post anything containing an opinion concerning Thailand and should be confined in the foreign news , and the pub section

am I correct?

[WitawatWatawit]

This has always been a bugbear of mine. At my place, sticky rice is a rather long process, requiring an overnight soak, followed in the morning by preparing a charcoal fire to steam the rice in a conical bamboo basket. The array of dishes that are prepared to accompany the rice also take considerable time to prepare. I doubt this amazing new development will get much traction amongst the sticky rice traditionalists, who, given the fact that they still insist on eating this way are not entirely time poor. In fact, when you add the time for hunting and gathering required for such 'cuisine' time is not really a consideration. This new contraption will just give them an additional 10 minutes of not doing much.

Yes, but that's 10 minutes of doing nothing that they didn't have before. So you could say this invention is a real labour saving device when you apply it to a whole village.

[ableguy]

Ok......I am going to ask a dumb question...

What is sticky rice ?

is it a special kind of rice or just the way you cook regular rice ?

I always add extra water in my rice cooker because I want to eat "chunks" of rice and not chase grains of rice around my plate

But I know here in the USA most people like rice that does not "stick" together.

Go back to sleep.

[ozsamurai]

oz

[rice555]

Ok......I am going to ask a dumb question...

What is sticky rice ?

is it a special kind of rice or just the way you cook regular rice ?

I always add extra water in my rice cooker because I want to eat "chunks" of rice and not chase grains of rice around my plate

But I know here in the USA most people like rice that does not "stick" together.

You eat it with your "fingers", no fork/spoon/sticks involved.

About 20 years ago I was eating at a Lao restaurant in SFO and

some people were drinking the water for cleaning your fingers,

they thought it was a soup/condiment with the dinner.

rice555

[sirineou]

Apparently some people don't understand Thainess. Using bamboo for cooking is revolutionary in itself. It's a giant leap forward in cooking evolution. Making steam instead of heating water with electricity is unheard of and will make the history books.

This will go into the history museums right next to the wheel.

.. and others don't understand "farangness" ..

I like this word please don't mind if I start using it

Farangness: a condition acquired when moving to Thailand, by otherwise sane whites of European decent, causing them to loose control of their reasoning faculties, and engage in inane Thai bashing while posting on TVF

Please feel free to add to, or modify the definition

[ozsamurai]

Farangness: adj a condition acquired when moving to Thailand, by otherwisely sane whites of European decent, causing them to loose control of their reasoning faculties, and engage in inane Thai bashing while posting on TVF. Advanced cases may lead to loss of girlfriend/wife, hair and money. Current research suggests, long term-or chronic 'farangness' may be the leading cause of falling off balconies.

[sirineou]

Farangness: adj a condition acquired when moving to Thailand, by otherwisely sane whites of European decent, causing them to loose control of their reasoning faculties, and engage in inane Thai bashing while posting on TVF. Advanced cases may lead to loss of girlfriend/wife, hair and money. Current research suggests, long term-or chronic 'farangness' may be the leading cause of falling off balconies.

" long term-or chronic 'farangness' may be the leading cause of falling off balconies."

excellent amendment to the definition ., it seems that in my definition I failed to consider the gravity of the situation

[ozsamurai]

put it in a new thread here

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/765987-the-online-tvf-slang-dictionary/

[JLCrab]

Maybe it's an interesting contraption for Thai families who don't have a microwave -- my Thai neighbor says she goes out to buy the 10 baht bags of sticky rice in the morning because she says the stove gas to cook the rice properly is too expensive.

BTW even though I might lose control my control is never loose.

[LennyW]

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Those who comment about saving 10 min worth of electricity need to multiply tha 10 min times the millions of families that may be buying this item. That's a lot of energy saved worldwide dongs to the kids

and then you need to consider those millions of families using the keep warm function for hours a day.... seriously read the article.

Oz

It does not save 10 minutes of electricity - it uses 30-35 minutes of electricity which is 10 minutes quicker than doing it with gas or charcoal, so that be 35 minutes x the millions of families that may be buying this item. That's a lot of energy used...................With all that additional requirement for electricity they will be building a nuclear power plant here in no time!