French cookware and small domestic appliances (SDA) manufacturer Tefal launched the first-of-its kind spherical pot rice cooker in the Philippines, which people behind say would revolutionize the way Filipinos cook their staple food.
Round in shape unlike the usual rice cooker, the Tefal Optimal and Initial Spherical Pot Rice Cooker seems to have taken inspiration from the palayok or the traditional claypot that Filipinos had used in the past to cook delicious rice and viands in.
The product, which comes in two variants, uses the exclusive Tefal Spherical Pot technology that makes each grain of rice fluffier, more flavorful and more superior in texture. This is made possible by its 62-degree golden angle that gives the ideal circular heat convection for homogenous and delicious cooking.
This 3D heating with uniform side, bottom and top heat transfer gives optimal and balanced cooking performance – much better than that of the flat vertical-horizontal heating of other model
The Tefal pot rice cookers also have “Artificial Intelligence Technology with Fuzzy Logic” that enables the rice cookers to determine different types of ingredients and deliver the best cooking performance by automatically adjusting cooking time and temperature, to always give tasty and perfect results.
“Rice should not be bland and cooked by luck or what we call in the vernacular as patsamba-tsamba. As our staple food, rice deserves the best cooking possible. That is, with the help of the revolutionary spherical pot rice cookers from Tefal that will assure any user of tasty, convenient and versatile cooking,” said Julie Lim, vice president for business development of Collins International Trading Corp., Tefal’s exclusive distributor in the Philippines of SDAs.
As its name suggests, the Tefal Optimal Spherical Pot Rice Cooker (RK8145) also optimizes cooking functions with its 35 built-in cooking programs that can cook a variety of ingredients beyond rice, including clay pot, porridge, congee, steam, slow cook, soup, or even dessert. The Tefal Initial Spherical Pot Rice Cooker (RK7405), meanwhile, also has nine cooking programs to choose from.
Michael Yu, marketing director for Hongkong and the Philippines of Groupe SEB Asia, the world leader in small domestic equipment that owns Tefal, said that Tefal reinvented cooking with the non-stick pan, when it tried to address the need of the market for a simpler, attractive and multi-functional kitchenware.
“And Tefal is still at it – reinventing cooking – this time with rice. This staple food for every Filipino is very easy to cook, and anyone can do it – and yes, you can use any kind of pot or rice cooker to do it. But for Tefal, rice cooked in just any type of pot or electric rice cooker is not enough. This is because Filipinos deserve the perfectly cooked rice every time. And they can do just that with the Tefal spherical pot rice cooker. That’s why it is revolutionary,” Yu said.
Experience perfectly cooked rice with Tefal Spherical Rice Cookers now at 20 percent off at all SM Home outlets nationwide until March 15. SM Advantage and SM Prestige card holders also get additional 10 percent off if they buy the product at SM Makati (GF Concourse Area) until today, March 4.
