RICE COOKER

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rice cooker which allows a schedule time to be easily set and rice cooking to be completed as much as possible at a schedule time of user-desired cooking completion which is stored beforehand.SOLUTION: The rice cooker has: time measurement means 94 for measuring a current time; rice cooking completion time storage means 95 for storing a rice cooking completion time; rice cooking completion time display part 22B for displaying a desired rice cooking completion time; time estimation means 97 for calculating the desired rice cooking completion time from the current time and the rice cooking completion time and causing the rice cooking completion time display part 22B to display it; and extraction means 98 for extracting a rice cooking course requiring the longest duration from a plurality of rice cooking courses within the time period from the current time to the rice cooking completion time.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 22 【課題】予約時刻の設定を簡単に行なうことができ、使用者の希望する予め記憶された炊き上がりの予約時刻に、できるだけ炊飯を完了させることができる炊飯器を提供する。【解決手段】現在時刻を計時する計時手段９４と、炊き上がり時刻を記憶する炊き上がり時刻記憶手段９５と、炊き上がり希望時刻を表示する炊き上がり時刻表示部２２Ｂと、現在時刻と炊き上がり時刻とから炊き上がり希望時刻を演算して炊き上がり時刻表示部２２Ｂに表示させる時刻予測手段９７と、現在時刻から炊き上がり時刻までの時間内で、最長の所要時間となる炊飯コースを、複数の炊飯コースの中から抽出する抽出手段９８と、を備える。【選択図】図２２