Rice cooker

Provided is a rice cooker capable of suppressing execution of a rice cooking process without mounting a cover body. The rice cooker comprises a pot; a pot container which accommodates the pot in a detachable manner and is provided with a cover body which covers an opening part at the upper side of the pot in a detachable manner; a housing having a placement surface on which the pot container is placed; a weight detection unit that detects the weight of the pot container; a load member disposed above the placement surface and provided so as to be capable of contacting the cover body; a moving portion that moves the load member between a first position in contact with the cover body and a second position away from the first position; a heating part for heating the pot in the pot container; and a control unit that controls the moving unit and the heating unit to execute a cooking process. The control unit does not execute the cooking process when the difference between a first detected weight detected by the wei