Wiktionary
n. A kitchen appliance which is designed to cook rice, through either boiling or steaming it.
Wikipedia
A rice cooker or rice steamer is an automated kitchen appliance designed to boil or steam rice. It has of a heat source, a cooking bowl, and a thermostat. The thermostat measures the temperature of the cooking bowl and controls the heat. Complex rice cookers may have many more sensors and other components, and may be multipurpose.
Usage examples of "rice cooker".
We switched vehicles and I drove Karla's Microbus for a while, but the Panasonic rice cooker in the rear filled with rattling cassette tapes drove me nuts.
She unplugged the rice cooker, a ceramic-coated steel canister, bright red, and carried it to where the twins sat.
She put shining aluminum plates and chopsticks in front of the twins, opened the rice cooker and swept rice onto each plate, then tilted the wok and poured the steaming mixture inside it onto the rice.
Someone is selling a rice cooker because they are going back home.
I thought of the head of steam when the cook lifted the lid from the rice cooker in the kitchen of our okiya.
She sees a pink Sanyo rice cooker on a small counter, and a narrow white plastic freestanding appliance connected to transparent tubing.