In lots of households world wide, the rice cooker is the perpetual dish within the kitchen, at all times able to whip up a number of cups of rice for a meal (or preserve leftovers heat from the night time earlier than). However even our personal little unit, designed for a modest 2- to 3-cup capability, requires a major quantity of counter area. The look of the gadget, whereas modern, can be a bit gaudy, embellished with attention-seeking backlit controls and gleaming metallic detailing – simply par for the course inside this class. Even the model most frequently related to trendy minimalism within the home context has extra buttons than most individuals will ever want or use. The Bowld mini rice cooker from a Korean design company discovered/established compared it’s intentionally sparse in particulars and choices, a considerate design that extols the virtues of ‘much less as extra’.
Discovered/Based’s small rice cooker is made from opaque thermoplastic and amorphous polymer (also called ABS plastic), a gently tapered bowl that extra carefully resembles conventional stone vessels as soon as used to prepare dinner rice reasonably than the stocky and elongated shapes now related to top-of-the-range electrics.
Bowld’s most hanging element is the highest dial. Resembling a sophisticated river stone, its clean end attracts eyes and arms to the black dial. Give it a twist and it’ll lock the rice cooker lid and type a seal. Closed, the rotary knob additionally safely controls and directs the steam output from the internal cooking pot to the rear throughout cooking.
The simplicity of the rice cooker is additional underlined by the solitary management knob, fortunately uncomplicated by the hieroglyphic pictograms usually plastered or illuminated on many rice cookers.
Bowld’s energy twine could be looped to shorten the size or fully conceal it from view.
Sadly for minimalist design fanatics, Bowld is at the moment only a idea, certainly one of a number of case research showcasing Discovered/Based’s wide selection of design options on the Seoul-based design studio’s web site.
