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Tefal Mini Oven (8.5L)

This is a picture of my TEFAL mini oven.

Tefal mini oven

I bought this oven about year ago. I would have bought a big built in oven if I was going to stay in Korea permanently. I can bake 6 medium size cookies at one time, so it takes me about 3 hours to bake a reasonable amount of cookies. I bought this for 86,000 won ($US 90.50), now it is available for 77,000 won on the internet (US $81.10).

This is a picture of “Convex” brand oven. Very popular in Korea at the moment. (available from 90,000 won, US $ 94.80, 18.5L, 2 story oven).

Convex

This is a picture of the cheapest oven in Korea at the moment. “Namyang Kitchen” brand (available from 25,000 won, US $26.30, 9L)

Namyang Kitchen

This is the “Rice Cooker”

This is my rice cooker. I bought it about 6 months ago.rice cooker
Whenever I travel overseas and still need to cook myself, I really miss having this rice cooker. Because I don’t need to worry about spilling water when rice boils, it never burns or sticks in the pot, and it always gives me perfect textured rice.

It’s a pressure cooker and it seems to make the rice sticker and shinier than just a normal electric rice cooker. It has different menu settings for white rice only, brown or grain mixed rice, and sushi/Kimbap rice. It can also cook sponge cake and steamed stew or meat etc (but I haven’t tried sponge cake with it yet).

It is absolutely my gem among other kitchenware and very convenient to use. The only problem I am having is that it is a bit hard to clean the hole where the steam comes out.

I usually cook a mix of brown and white rice – 1:1 (for 2 people), it takes about 25-30 minutes. However if I cook only white rice (for 2 people) it takes only 15 minutes.

Lastly, if you can’t use up the rice for one meal then just leave it in the rice cooker. Because it can be stored in the rice cooker for days and days. However it is best not to store the rice for more than 24 hours, because it’s not as yummy as it could be and the rice starts to dry out. It also may smell and change color but there is no harm.

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If you are interested in buying the same brand (cuckoo) rice cooker as I have, you can try Hmart online shop. Or if you are interested in buying a Japanese maker like zojirushi you can try amazon

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