The AutoWok makes the ideal fried rice of my dreams

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Here’s what it appears like prior to the rice, egg and garlic get tossed in.


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As I was strolling the halls of the Food and Hotels Asia exhibit searching for innovation utilized in cooking, I came across what is most likely the most life-altering (for me a minimum of) cooker: The AutoWok, an automated fried rice cooking maker.

The AutoWok, made by Japanese company Itoh Kouki Corporation (IKC), intends to produce large amounts of scrumptious completely fried rice to be offered in corner store or utilized in dining establishments. As the name recommends, the maker includes a genuine iron Chinese- design wok, however seated on top of a turning motor to keep the wok spinning.

Watching the rice getting turned is making me starving once again.


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A customized stir fryer blends to 1kg of rice as it cooks, and keeps the rice continually moving. The turning system is mild enough to avoid the rice grain from breaking and the starch dripping out, a procedure, I’m informed, that can result in “sticky rice,” a huge no-no.

And remarkably enough, there’s no gas flame, something thought about necessary to get that strange “wok hei” taste that provides fried rice the additional punch it requires. Here’s the trick: The cooker utilizes induction to warm the wok as much as 300 degrees Celsius (572 degrees Fahrenheit), which caramelizes the rice along with causing a Maillard response to somewhat brown the rice. Since the stir fryer keeps whipping up the rice to avoid it from burning on the wok, you get equally prepared fried rice soaked with that wok hei taste.

So if it just cooks excellent fried rice, what’s the point, you ask? Well, the story returns 20 years, when the existing employer of the 7-11 group in Japan, which owns the chain of corner store, wished to offer immediate prepacked food and discovered the fried rice being provided to be horrible. He then informed his existing providers to make it work or he would take his organization elsewhere.

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Look at the scrumptious unbroken rice grains.


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After having its engineers study a Chinese chef at work, IKC created the AutoWok, and the rest, as they state, is history. The CEO was so satisfied he needed that suppliers who wished to offer fried rice at its shops utilize IKC’s makers, and I’m informed that it’s likewise utilized in other nations in Southeast Asia too.

With a cost of $10,000 (₤7150 and AU$13,000), the AutoWok isn’t implied for house usage (which is a pity).

Does this signal completion of the Chinese chef? Perhaps not, as the AutoWok is just crafted to prepare particular kinds of food, you’ll still require a master chef to work up the wide ranges of meals that are far beyond the abilities of this gadget.