What add-on functions are there on Hotaru and are they any good?

Hotaru is much more than an advanced Induction Heating (IH) rice cooker. While cooking exceptional rice is its primary purpose, we have carefully selected a range of additional multi-cooking functions based on customer feedback gathered over more than 20 years of developing and selling rice cookers.

We don't add functions simply to make a specification list look impressive. Each function has been chosen because it works particularly well with Hotaru's IH heating, UMAI advanced fuzzy logic and controlled multi-phase cooking technology.

Extensively Tested by Yum Asia

We have extensively tested each of these functions to make sure they perform well with Hotaru's particular cooking technology.

The combination of IH heating, precise temperature control and advanced fuzzy logic allows Hotaru to carefully regulate the cooking environment for different types of food.

Depending on the programme selected, you can use Hotaru to prepare:

• Soups

• Casseroles

• Stews

• Whole joints of meat

• Steamed vegetables

• Fish and seafood

• Dumplings

• Rice and oat porridge

• Homemade yoghurt

• Cakes and desserts

• And much more

Why We Chose These Functions

With more than two decades of customer feedback and product development behind us, we have a good understanding of the additional functions that people actually want from a premium rice cooker.

We've therefore focused on functions that complement Hotaru's core rice-cooking technology, rather than simply adding features that may not work particularly well with the appliance.

Hotaru gives you the precision of a premium IH rice cooker with the versatility of a multi-cooker — allowing you to prepare everything from perfectly cooked rice and porridge to slow-cooked meals, steamed food, yoghurt and cakes.