What add-on functions are there on Kumo and are they any good?
Kumo was designed first and foremost to be an excellent rice cooker, but we wanted it to be much more versatile than a traditional rice-only appliance.
Over many years of selling, developing and listening to feedback from our customers, we identified the additional cooking functions that would be genuinely useful in everyday kitchens. Rather than simply adding lots of functions for the sake of having them, we hand-selected the multicooker programmes that we felt offered the most practical value.
The Add-On Functions We Chose
Kumo includes three carefully selected additional cooking functions:
PORRIDGE
The PORRIDGE function can be used to prepare both rice porridge and oat porridge.
It's ideal for creating comforting breakfasts, Asian-style rice porridges and other slow-cooked porridge dishes.
STEAM
The STEAM function allows you to steam a wide variety of foods, including:
Vegetables
Fish
Meat
Dumplings
Seafood
And much more
You can use the steaming function on its own or, where appropriate, steam food while cooking rice underneath, allowing you to prepare multiple parts of a meal simultaneously.
SLOW COOK
The SLOW COOK function provides a convenient way to prepare dishes that benefit from longer, gentler cooking.
You can use it for dishes such as:
Soups
Casseroles
Stews
Slow-cooked meat
Whole joints of meat
And many other slow-cooked recipes
It is particularly useful when you want to prepare a meal in advance and allow the ingredients to slowly develop their flavour and tenderness.
Extensively Tested
We didn't simply add these functions to Kumo and leave it at that.
We extensively tested each of the additional cooking programmes during development, experimenting with different ingredients, quantities and recipes to ensure that they produced consistently good results.
Kumo can therefore be used for considerably more than simply cooking rice.
You can prepare a complete meal, make a warming bowl of porridge, slow-cook a casserole, steam vegetables or fish, and even experiment with cakes and other baked-style recipes.
More Than Just a Rice Cooker
The philosophy behind Kumo was simple:
Make the rice cooking excellent – then make the cooker genuinely useful for other meals too.
That's why we chose a small number of versatile, practical functions rather than filling the cooker with programmes that most people would rarely use.
With PORRIDGE, STEAM and SLOW COOK alongside its dedicated rice cooking programmes, Kumo gives you a surprisingly broad range of cooking possibilities in a single appliance.
One cooker, great rice and a whole lot more.