Pressurized IH Rice Cooking facility "SILK"
Pressure
IH
Environmentally friendly
next-generation rice-cooking facility
Brand concept
Make every grain, every bowl, delicious
We have honed our rice processing technology for over 130 years since our founding, with the belief that we want to create good healthy people through food.
SILK, the pressure-type IH rice cooker system proposed by Satake—experts in rice—delivers enhanced flavor, consistent quality, and space-saving design.
It was engineered with consideration for both workers and the environment in rice-cooking facilities.
About "SILK"
Origin of the "SILK" brand name
S
SATAKE
I
Induction
Heating
L
Low
Emission
K
Kitchen
System
Expressed by connecting four acronyms. In addition, It is superimposed on the image of silk such as "high-grade," "high quality," and "elegant," "gentle," "smooth," and "shiny."
Brand logo's tagline "Every grain, every bowl, is delicious" is in order to achieve the distinctive features of a pressure-type IH rice cooker "firm graininess" "low unevenness," and "maintaining good taste" by cooking each grain carefully and thoroughly, we express our desire to make a potful of rice and a bowlful of rice delicious.
Product Overview What is a “Pressure IH Rice Cooker”?
Satake's Pressurized IH Rice Cooking facility "SILK", is a fully automated rice cooking system that achieves both delicious taste and consistent quality in a space-saving design. Furthermore, it addresses various challenges in rice cooking facilities while considering the operators and the environment.
Experience SILK more realistically through 3D and video
Experience realistic rice cooking equipment online in our 3D-recreated SILK environment. You can control the viewpoint and look around in 360 degrees.
Watch a video of SILK in operation. It introduces each process that enhances flavor and ensures consistent quality.
Advantages of SILK
Improvement of taste and quality stability
Using our proprietary pressurized IH technology, it cooks each grain to fluffy perfection even in large-scale commercial rice cooking lines. By precisely controlling temperature and pressure, it achieves consistent cooking quality for both plain white rice and colored rice.
Space-saving
This compact rice cooking system enables efficient line construction even in limited factory space. By streamlining processes from rice washing to cooking and weighing, it achieves approximately 25-40% space savings compared to conventional systems.
User- and environment-friendly rice cooking facility
Satake's commercial rice cooking facility features an environmentally conscious design that combines energy efficiency with hygiene. Utilizing highly efficient IH technology, it reduces power consumption while contributing to a more comfortable working environment.
Introduction of
Rice Cooking process
of SILK
SILK, the pressure-type IH rice cooking facility proposed by Satake—a company with deep expertise in rice processing—is a fully automatic commercial rice cooking system that provides integrated control from rice washing through cooking, steaming, and portioning. Its unique pressure-type IH technology ensures stable taste and quality, while its space-saving design enables efficient continuous cooking. Furthermore, its design prioritizes both workers and the environment, enhancing operational efficiency while solving various challenges faced by rice cooking facilities.
Rice Cooking facility “SILK” Lineup and Product Specifications
Three models are available to suit the scale and production volume of your rice cooking facility: 60 pots/hour, 80 pots/hour, and 120 pots/hour. (Intermediate capacities can be adjusted by reducing the number of rice cookers.)
All are commercial fully automatic rice cooking systems that deliver the high-quality results of the “Pressurized IH Rice Cooking facility SILK” and enable stable continuous cooking.
Why SATAKE is Chosen for Rice Cooking Facilities
We have honed our rice processing technology for over 130 years since our founding, with the belief that we want to create good healthy people through food.
We handle nearly all machines and equipment used from post-harvest drying and processing, rice milling, sorting, to producing pre-washed rice, supporting food around the world.
Case study
#01 BEISHIN ISHIKAWA Inc.
Management with Sincerity for Rice and Local Communities
In November 2022, we introduced SILK's “Pressurized IH Rice Cooking Line (72 pots × 2 lines)”. Satake's commercial rice cooking system achieves uniform, high-quality delicious rice with no uneven cooking. It has also earned high praise in school lunch settings for being “delicious even when cooled”.
#02 Don Don-Rice
Awareness and pride in food infrastructure and lifelines
In December 2020, we introduced SILK's “Pressurized IH Rice Cooking Line (120-Pot Line)”. Compared to gas cooking methods, it significantly improves taste quality, such as grain separation and texture, and is highly regarded for its stable cooking results. It is also well-received for its automated quality control via PC and improvements in the working environment.
Frequently Asked
Questions
What is the difference between pressurized and non-pressurized?
- 1.2 atm pressure and 106°C high-temperature cooking ensures heat penetrates to the core of each grain, resulting in rice that resists flavor degradation and cooks up plump and glossy.
Furthermore, by recapturing steam generated during cooking, the ambient temperature around the cooker remains stable, enabling consistent, reproducible results.
What is the difference between gas and IH?
- Gas rice cookers only heat the bottom of the pot, but IH (SILK) can generate heat from both the bottom and sides of the pot, enabling more precise heating control.
Isn't IH a low-heat cooker?
- IH has higher thermal efficiency than gas, and can produce the same heat power as gas with fewer calories. Since the heat power is not visible, it may appear weak at first glance, but in fact, IH boasts strong heat power due to bottom and side heating, and is in no way inferior to gas.
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Is the IH work environment good?
- Compared to gas cooking, it generates less exhaust heat, reducing the air conditioning load and allowing the cooking chamber to be maintained at a constant temperature throughout the year.
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Can we discuss gas-fired rice cookers as well?
- Yes, it is possible.
While SILK is an IH-type rice cooking line, we can also propose gas-type rice cooking equipment based on the same line configuration, processes, and design as SILK.
