Cooking 1 cup of white rice in a Zojirushi rice cooker. I’m surprised at the slow intro/outro. This rice cooker only gives a countdown when it’s within 10 minutes or so of being done, so I was wondering if you could tell more about how it’s doing with a current trace.
Depending, the model might have a 20 minute soak on a normal run, a ‘quick’ run might skip that and go straight to heat.
Most of the rice cooker’s job is to boil water and determine when the temperature changes (most of the water is gone). Fancy cookers do things with power levels and steaming, which might be what you’re seeing at the end, but I’m guessing.
For comparison, 50 minutes to cook 3 cups of white rice (v. 1 cup of white in the original). Similar for the mid/end sections, but seems like the 1st section it drew a lot more current, maybe just more heat for a larger volume of water during the soak.