Kotori Mini Donburi Rice Cooker
Donburi style one pot rice cooking and more way. Incredibly versatile 1 cup capacity with modern aesthetics. Take the bowl direct to the table for more efficient meal preparation.
🗲– supplied with detachable UK 3 pin plug and power cord
£59.90
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Cooking Capacity Guide
| Capacity | Uncooked White Rice | Cooked White Rice | Uncooked Brown Rice | Cooked Brown Rice | Multicook | Number Of People |
| 1 cup | 180ml | ~360ml | ~90ml | ~270ml | - | 1 |
| 2.5 cup | 450ml | ~1350ml | ~270ml | ~810ml | ~900ml | 1-2 |
| 3 cup | 540ml | ~1500ml | ~360ml | ~1080ml | ~1000ml | 1-3 |
| 3.5 cup | 630ml | ~1890ml | ~360ml | ~1260ml | ~1300ml | 1-3 |
| 4 cup | 720ml | ~2160ml | ~720ml | ~2000ml | ~1400ml | 1-4 |
| 5 cup | 900ml | ~2800ml | ~720ml | ~2000ml | ~2000ml | 1-6 |
| 5.5 cup | 1000ml | ~3000ml | ~720ml | ~2000ml | ~2100ml | 1-5 |
| 8 cup | 1500ml | ~4500ml | ~1000ml | ~3000ml | ~3300ml | 1-8 |
| 10 cup | 1800ml | ~5400ml | ~1500ml | ~3600ml | - | 1-10 |
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A versatile and novel way to cook rice dishes. Cook from fresh or reheat.
A New Way To Cook One Pot Meals
Kotori (小鳥 or little bird in Japanese)
is a 1 cup mini donburi rice cooker. It introduces a completely new way to cook and eat one pot meals. It is unique as the multi layered cooking compartments allow for full meal preparation all at the same time. After cooking the bowl can be lifted off the control base and taken to the table where you can eat directly from it. It's ideal for 1 persion (or two people at a push) with a very small footprint.
Available in two colours -chalk white or charcoal black. Kotori can suit any dining area.
Fully Loaded With The Essentials
Kotori is wonderfully compact but still fully featured with a Ninja 2mm ceramic coated inner bowl, advanced fuzzy logic (AI) processing, multi phased cooking, 3 rice cooking functions and 3 carefully selectted add-on functions, a full countdown and Korean design MoTouch control panel with an LED display
'Power Heating' technology, and 12 hour keep warm all calibrated by Yum Asia for perfect rice and one pot cooking. This amazing package doesn't stop here because we also include wooden eating utensils (chopsticks, fork and spoon) and a 7 day recipe book with meal planner. Everything you need to prepare fabulous nutritious and delicious meals every single day!
Donburi Style Eating
Kotori is as versatile as a cooker can be. It's perfect for making just rice or rice with other ingredients, porridge or can be a slow cooker or even a steamer. This opens up so many options for meal preparation.
You can cook rice in the Ninja bowl whilst steaming vegetables or meat/fish in the stainless steel steaming tray. You can then optionally add the stainless steel steaming bowl for heating/cooking sauces or other liquids all at the same time. To help you work out how to use Kotori to make full meals we include more than 20 recipes in the included booklet along with advice on the best way to use your Kotori.
Be confident in your purchase that we only use healthy materials as our cookers do not contain BPA, PTFE, PFOAs or any other harmful chemicals.
Lid Cover
Steam Bowl
Steam tray
Ninja Inner Bowl
Inner Bowl Casing
Control base
Smart And Useful Design
Kotori is aesthetically pleasing in any kitchen. It's matte exterior with Japanese donburi styling is unique and incredibly eye catching. The entire bowl part is easily lifted on and off the base heater to be taken to your table for eating and doesn't get hot. The inner bowl is encased in a stay cool exterior. This can be removed for interchangeable bowls or separate washing. Depending on what you are cooking means you can optionally use just the Ninja bowl or ninja bowl with steaming tray and/or the steaming bowl.
Kotori can cook white or brown rice, short grain (sushi) and has a steam, porridge and even a slow cook function.
Roll over the hotspots to see each part and function.
Explore Kotori Further
LID HANDLE WITH UTENSIL SLOT
STAY COOL MATT EXTERIOR
ON / OFF DEDICATED BUTTON
STEAMING TRAY
STAINLESS INNER LID
NINJA 2MM CERAMIC COATED BOWL
MOUTOUCH CONTROL PANEL
BRIGHT ICE WHITE LED DISPLAY
POWER HEATING ELEMENT
PRESSURE SENSOR
SOLID CONSTRUCTION
PREHEATING PHASE
Bamboo starts to gently heat the rice and water using the Joubu bowl to between 50-60°C. This begins the cooking cycle and is key to the release of sugars into the water from the rice grains.
AGITATION PHASE
The Joubu bowl temperature is rapidly increased by the IH whilst the UMAI system makes micro adjustments to obtain a range of between 50-70°C. The rice then is agitated by the IH coils and the grains begin water absorption according to the function chosen.
HEATING PHASE
The temperature is increased again to between 75-85°C to start the actual cooking process. This varies depending on the function chosen.
BOILING PHASE
The UMAI controller then rapidly increases the temperature to minimum of 100˚C boiling point to evaporate the majority of the water from the inner bowl and to further cook the rice to soften and optimise texture.
STEAM PHASE – sugar reabsorption
Deep steaming then enables the rice to continue cooking while reabsorbing the sugars from the remaining water back into the rice whilst simultaneously evaporating the remaining water. This part of the cycle makes the rice taste sweeter, more nutritious, have better aroma/texture and completes the final rice grain cooking.
COOL DOWN PHASE
Water balancing then occurs using low temperature range cycling to ensure there is no remaining water left and that the rice has the correct moisture content.
BURST PHASE
Depending on the what is being cooked the UMAI system may determine that an additional burst of rapid heating is applied. This prevents over saturation of rice and pulls more nutrients into the rice grains.
KEEP WARM AND STEAM PHASE
The temperature is then held at an optimal 70-76°C to continue to steam the rice and keep the rice safe from bacteria. This ensures the rice is perfectly cooked, fluffy and delicious and ready for when you need it.
Multi Phased Cooking
Kotori uses advanced fuzzy logic (AI) to ensure rice is cooked perfectly every time. This cooking profile graph shows how the advanced microprocessor adjusts the temperature using the weight, content type, water volume, internal temperatures along with pre-programmed conditions to cook perfect rice time after time.
Kotori uses at least 7 phases of cooking types which includes preheat, absorb water, heating, boiling, steam, cool down and keep warm with steam which are each calculated for time and temperature using Yum Asia's unique cooking profiles.
Includes 7 Day Recipe Guide With Meal Planner
The 28 page meal planner provides 2 meal ideas for each day of the week along with a few extra recipes to get your creative ideas started. Use it purely as a guide and change whatever you want. It also includes advice on how to cook in Kotori and other tips and ideas.
Note that the guide is in ENGLISH language only however there is a link to an online version of the recipes which can be translated to any langiage
Watch Our Explainers
Find out how Kotori works to reduce the carbohydrate content of rice and take a look at this tour of Kotori's features that make it so unique.
- 1 cup / 0.18 litre capacity of uncooked rice – enough for 1-2 people
- Advanced Fuzzy Logic technology
- White/long grain, short grain (for sushi) and brown rice functions
- Donburi Style Cooking – cook from fresh or reheat and make one pot meals
- Useful multi-cooker features – steam, porridge and slow cook functions
- High quality 2mm thick ‘Ninja’ ceramic coated inner bowl. Can be detached from the heating element and taken to the table using cool carry exterior. Eat straight from the bowl! at the table
- 12 hours keep warm function
- Full countdown for all functions
- Ice white digital display and MoTouch sensitive buttons
- Chalk White or Charcoal Black matte exterior
- Power Heat technology using extra strength heating element for quicker cooking
- Includes stainless steel inner lid, with stainless steel steam basket and soup tray
- Measuring cup, spatula, soup ladle and wooden fork, spoon and chopsticks included
- Includes Recipe Guide With 7 Day Kotori Meal Planner with more than 20 recipes, tips and advice to get you one pot cooking!
- 220-240V, 50Hz. Factory made for UK power. Detachable 3-pin plug and cable with dedicated power on/off switch
ITEM DIMENSIONS
| Item Depth (front to back) | 20.0cm |
|---|---|
| Item Width (side to side) | 18.0cm |
| Item Height (base to top) | 18.0cm |
| Item Weight | 1.30kg |
PACKAGE DIMENSIONS
| Package Depth (front to back) | 27.0cm |
|---|---|
| Package Width (side to side) | 20.0cm |
| Package Height (base to top) | 24.5cm |
| Package Weight | 2.47kg |
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Hotaru has two different types of capacity. It is a 0.18 litre, 1 cup rice cooker or a XXXX multicooker
Let’s take the first two capacities – 0.18 litres or 1 cup. Rice cooker capacities are always referred to in litres or cups. Kotori is a 0.18 litre capacity rice cooker and it can therefore cook up to 1 cup of uncooked white rice or 1 cup of uncooked brown rice – each cup is 180ml/g. So, if you want to cook 1 cup of white rice, that would be approximately 180g
The third capacity of 1 litre refers to Kotori’s multi-cooking capacity. This means that the inner bowl can hold a maximum of XXX litres of liquid.
You can learn more about the capacity of our rice cookers in the following pages:
In our years of selling Zojirushi rice cookers, we realised that all of rice cookers on the market in the UK, Europe or the USA only had teflon/similar non-stick material inner bowls.
Based on many customer queries and opinions, we took the decision to supply an inner bowl with a premium and durable 2mm thick ceramic coating.We call this type of bowl – Ninja.
The Ninja bowl is BPA, PTFE or PFAS (PFOA and PFOS) free and is hard wearing. The inner bowl also has a special honeycomb structure to help the heat disperse evenly across the bowl’s surface.
The level lines of the bowl are silk printed rather than stamped so they can be hard wearing but also easily read in low light conditions.
Yes! To turn Kotori OFF simply toggle the dedicated power ON/OFF switch.
To turn Kotori back ON simply toggle the power ON/OFF switch again.
No, Kotori does not have a preset timer feature. This is because the donburi style of cooking is designed for making quick one pot meals or rice. Using the power heat technology we have given Kotori extra energy to get your meals done quickly.
With donburi style of eating the idea is that ou can lift the whole bottome part of Kotori off the heating base and carry it to the table where you can eat directly from the bowl. Thereby saving time on washing unneccesary dishes and making life much easier for the one or two person eater.
We have included wooden chopsticks, spoon and fork for use with eating from the kotori inner bowl. Please do not use any metal utensils on this bowl.
Ibrahim S –
Fianlly a 1 cup rice cooker that is fully featured and can make all in one meals. I love the way you can simply lift off the rice bowl and eat from it. Ingenious! I also didn’t expect the recipe guide and utensils. Much cooler than I had even imagined!
Doninik C –
Bought this as a Christmas gift and decided to keep it for myself and order another . It works wonderfully well. I don’t eat much rice but I do enioy it and so this is more than ideal for my needs. The box was packed full of goodies too. A real treat!
Lucy Orion –
Totally love this! Been looking for a replacement for my Bonsai and then the Kotori pops up. Lots of useful functions. So easy to lift the bowl to the table without having to transfer contents. The spatula set is lovely and a nice touch – as is the recipe guide. So much to try. Going to keep going and buy one for my brother as a xmas gift.