Cooking time: approx. 14 minutes for 90 ml (3 fl oz), approx. 19.5 minutes for 180 ml (6 fl oz) cup of rice Thanko says the earpieces are compact and fit securely enough that you can even wear them while sleeping on your side with no discomfort. Suntory announces massive price spike for Japanese whisky, some types more than double in price 4 views When thinking outside the box is your business model, though, there’s always the risk that your designers might think a little too far outside the boundaries of conventional logic, and Thanko recently shared a photo of one of their past products that ended up being a sales failure.

With a one-liter (33.9 fl oz) capacity, the Thanko Instant Ramen for One Cooker won't stop at instant ramen: you can also prepare other Japanese soul food staples like curry rice and okayu (rice porridge), and its slider allows you to set the temperature at exactly the right setting up to 320°C (608°F). But the truth is that it's at its best when you use it with your instant noodles of choice – as a cooker or as a bowl to eat them hot, slurping and everything! Logically, this kind of low-sugar rice cooker would produce the best effect since there will be two ways of filtering.It’s a Power Rangers-type weapon, right? One of the powerful ones that they use for the tough enemy at the end of the episode.” Once you have the bottom crust in place, add in your filling. In Thanko’s example photo below they’re using instant curry roux for a meaty savory pie, but the only limit is your imagination. This is the method of separating the cooked rice from the remaining glutinous water at the bottom of the inner pot.

Mysterious cosmic ray named after Japanese goddess Amaterasu confirmed second most powerful 6 views Japanese gadget maker Thanko is our favorite supplier of innovations we never knew we needed until the company invented them. We never would have thought of the Whole Pie Maker or drink-at-home Secret Base on our own, but we’re glad Thanko did.So here comes Thanko’s latest invention: a pair of what anyone looking at them would guess are earphones, but which play no music. Dieticians still suggest limiting your intake of rice, especially if you already have type 2 diabetes. As the fat drips down and completely avoids the heater, the smoke issue is removed while the meat is actually more healthy! As each skewer is constantly spinning, they are evenly cooked and super tender - watching them spin is surprisingly addictive! Japanese company Thanko’s Super High-Speed One-Person Bento Box Rice Cooker is one of those cooking gadgets we never knew we desperately needed until after it was invented. A rice cooker so compact you can easily carry it with you to the office and cook rice at your desk, it’s allowed us to have freshly cooked grains on our workday lunch breaks. Whenever Japanese gadget maker Thanko comes up with a new idea, you can expect it to be baffling, brilliant, or maybe a little of both. The company describes its goal as to create useful, interesting solutions to everyday problems, like clip-on fans to keep your armpits from sweating or a personal kitchen appliance that just makes pies.

That’s because they’re actually a sleep aid device. “Oh, OK, so they play some sort of white noise to help you relax, right?” you might be guessing, but that’s not the case either, because these “earphones” don’t have any speakers at all. Instead, they have heaters.Everyone has preferences on what is important or not when deciding on what to buy. But I want to offer my opinion on the most important things that the Best Low Sugar Rice Cooker should have. If I had to choose… I would select the Thanko low-sugar rice cooker because it has two filtering systems.

The Whole Pie Maker, which Thanko also calles the “Okina Pie Maker” (meaning “Big Pie Maker” in Japanese), will bake you a pie with a 26-centimeter (10.2-inch) diameter. Included with the device is a circular cutting dye to be used with pre-made pie sheets, letting you stamp out the bottom and top crusts. Instructions are all in Japanese (claimed easy to operate, while others have utilized phone app to translate)

It’s never too late (or early) to prepare for the next summer heat wave. In Japan, summer is especially hot, which means many night-time festivals, warm-weather yukata, and, of course, shaved ice! But whether or not you’re in Japan, you can still keep the summer heat at bay with these “cool” Japanese USB gadgets. USB Japanese Uchiwa Fan Some of Thanko’s other ideas are blueberry jam and cream cheese pie and a potato salad, corn, and mayo pie. Wait, how are you supposed to load all of your pots, pans, and silverware in that thing?” you might be asking. You don’t, because this is a dish washer in the most literal sense of the term…