• 3 cup / 0.54 litre capacity of uncooked rice – enough for 1-3 people
• ‘UMAI’ (Smart Brain AI) Induction Heating (IH) technology
• White/long grain, short grain (for sushi), brown rice and tahdig/crust settings
• ‘Quick’ cook setting for faster white rice cooking
• ‘Yumami’ (umami extra taste) and GABA brown settings
• Useful multi-cooker features – steam, porridge, slow cook, cake and yoghurt settings
• High quality 3mm thick ‘Joubu’ ceramic coated inner bowl with stay cool carry handles
• 24 hours keep warm function and 24 hours timer feature
• Full countdown for rice functions
• State of the art Korean designed ‘Hidden Controls’ with ice white display and MoTouch sensitive buttons
• Chalk white or slate grey matte exterior
• 3D heating technology with condensate heating evaporator (CHE)
• Detachable stainless steel inner lid, internal hidden steam cap and condensation collector for easy cleaning
• Stainless steel steam basket, measuring cup, spatula and soup ladle included
• 220-240V, 50Hz. Factory made for UK power. Detachable 3-pin plug and cable

Hotaru (Japanese word for firefly - 蛍) is our smallest high-end rice cooker – it’s ideal for singles, couples or a small family. Hotaru is our third smart UMAI Induction Heating (IH) rice cooker with AI for the UK and Europe. It's packed full of unique rice cooking functions that have become incredibly popular. Using microcoil technology we have compacted the induction heating technology into a small 3 cup capacity rice cooker whilst being able to retain a minimal appearance. We used the foundation of Japanese rice cooking technologies improved on them and incorporated them into Hotaru so it produces professional (better than) restaurant quality rice – every time!

• Make Better Than Restaurant Quaity Rice And More With Hotaru

Hotaru can cook any rice from raw perfectly. Basmati, Hom Mali jasmine rice, brown rice, short grain (sushi) and more – using it’s UMAI smart brain (+AI). It has been trained to know exactly how these grains are supposed to be cooked and communicates heating parameters to its micro inductive coils. Using multiple heating phases calibrated by our engineers at Yum Asia, fine adjustments are made to each cooking process so you get perfect cooked grains. The UMAI IH enables us to incorporate our signature Yumami rice function which can be used for any type of white rice and is designed and developed by Yum Asia. This is a specific cooking cycle that uses different temperatures to release sugars contained in the rice that increases the 'Umami' taste sense of the tongue. It also has the very popular GABA Brown rice function which soaks and ‘activates’ any type of brown rice to release the gamma-aminobutyric acid, or GABA in the brown rice and multiplies the rice nutrient value.

Hotaru doesn’t stop there! It has a very wide range of add-on functions including slow cook, porridge, steaming, cake and yoghurt in addition to it's many rice functions to give you more possibilities and reduce the number of appliances you need in your kitchen.

• Superior Thoughtful Design

Hotaru has been designed with healthy superior cooking at it's core. It has a stainless steel inner lid and steam tray for the more health conscious. It includes our signature Joubu 3mm ceramic coated inner bowl. Joubu has rice measurement level lines are silk printed for ease of reading and durability. Hotaru itself is easy to clean with removable parts. This means healthy, safe and hygienic cooking.

Built into the lid is a condensate heating evaporator (CHE) which reduces excess moisture during and after cooking and helps collect the condensate into the water collector. Steam hits the inner lid, condenses into water and is evaporated back into steam to reduce liquid and help give more even cooking.

• 24 Hour Keep Warm and 24 Hour Preset Timer

Hotaru has 24 hours automatic keep warm - it keeps rice at an ideal temperature until it's ready to be served. There is a loop countdown indicator during the cooking cycle which shows both a time digital countdown and loop lights which light up around the Start button as cooking commences. When the rice is cooked a beep sounds and the cooker automatically moves to keep warm mode. For added convenience, there is a preset time function which can be set up to 24 hours in advance, so you can have delicious rice ready for when you come in from work or nice, steaming hot porridge waiting on a cold winter's morning.

• Hidden Control System With Modern Display

We are well known for being rice cooker experts with decades of experience in cooking rice. For Hotaru, we give a choice of two matte colours which are Chalk White or Slate Grey with a subtle glossy trim. This is complemented by our ice white ‘hidden controls’ with Ice White LED display and advanced Korean Motouch sensitive control panel not only for reasons of hygiene but to keep fingerprints to a minimum and give an easy clean exterior appearance with minimal aesthetics.

• Everything You Need To Cook Like A Professional

With Hotaru you get a rice measuring cup for convenient rice measurements so you can accurately cook just the amount of rice you need. A high quality rice spatula is included to help with rice service. You also get a stainless steel steaming tray to place above the rice you are cooking which is perfect for steaming vegetables and other foods. Hotaru is designed to be used on 220-240V, 50Hz power and is supplied with a UK (3 pin) detachable power cord.

Hotaru's ‘UMAI IH with AI’ means that the rice is cooked evenly and fast. Multiple magnetic inductive coils within the bottom of the rice cooker create a magnetic field so when the Joubu 3mm thick ceramic coated inner bowl is placed into the rice cooker and the unit is activated, that magnetic field creates instant heat.

Using this technology, the inner cooking bowl itself, rather than the heating element, becomes the heat source then, utilising both high heat and fine heat adjustments to very accurately and carefully control the cooking process. The UMAI IH also causes 'swirl' heating currents that agitates every grain in the pot. This produces a more even rice cooking process so the grains are more delicately cooked enhanced by the 360/3D design of the contained cooking area which bounces the heat into the contents of Joubu for targeted heating.

The UMAI inductive heating carefully controls temperature for the efficient cooking of many different types of rice using multi phased cooking.

These phases include - rising boil, steam, braise, boil, water absorption, accelerate heat, sugar release, nutrient reabsorption, cool down and more all temperature and time controlled automatically by our advanced UMAI fuzzy logic (AI smart brain).