Burner not staying lit on rinnia rice cooker

A rice cooker is designed to heat the water to steam, infusing the rice (or vegetables) with moisture, and removing the excess water by evaporation. Your rice cooker may or may not have come with a steam tray (used to keep the items you want to steam out of the water, but still allow them to heat via the steam). It most likely did come with a deep bowl with a non-stick coating. This is where you pour the rice and the water. Make sure to put the lid on and turn it on when all ingredients are inside the nonstick bowl. Place the bowl inside the electric burner (or the cooker). I would add a little bit of oil to the water to improve texture and stickiness.

Warm mode probably isn't going to cook anything. It's just to keep things warm.

Unplug the rice cooker and the remove the cooker kettle. Push the steel button in the center of the rice cooker to loosen the spring. Plug the rice cooker without the kettle, the cook function must not be functioning. Plug it again with the kettle and push the cook switch to see if it working properly.

Adjust ur THERMAL lever, underneath the cooker there is a SCREW w/ metal lever, adjust it till ther lever stays down!

Is this the pilot light you are talking about on a natural gas rice cooker?

On older rinnai rice cooker 5yrs or older. you should replace the Thermocouple part no. 62341

Instructions quoted from the Durabrand Rice Cooker model HRC 18G manual...... 1 cup of uncooked rice rice will make about 2 cups of cooked rice. Add rice to the inner pot. Maximum four cups uncooked rice for the model. Many varieties of rice can be used including basmati, wild rice, arborio risotto, saffron rice and long grain rice. Whole grains, such as barley can also be prepared with the rice cooker, follow instructions on the package.

For every cup (160ml) of raw rice, add 1-1/2cups of water. For stickier rice add slightly more water, for fluffier rice use slightly less water.

When your rice is cooked, the cooker will automatically switch to the warm function and the yellow warm light will turn on. The cooker will stay in the warm function untill is disconnected from the wall outlet. The cooker will keep the rice warm 158F - 212F

Hope this helps, its quoted right out of the manual I have for my cooker

Hi,
There is a sensor that regulates how hot the cooker gets and shuts it down to the warm setting when it senses that the heat is too high...meaning that all the water has cooked off....my guess is that the sensor failed and as far as I know it is not replaceable.

Here is a tip that I wrote about rice cookers and the amount of rice and water needed...

How much Rice and Water go in the Cooker

http://www.fixya.com/support/r5396567-much_rice_water_go_in_cooker

heatman101

bad thermostat . there are no parts made for this model . sorry

Hi,
There is a sensor that regulates how hot the cooker gets and shuts it down to the warm setting when it senses that the heat is too high...meaning that all the water has cooked off....my guess is that the sensor failed and as far as I know it is not replaceable.

Here is a tip that I wrote about rice cookers and the amount of rice and water needed...

How much Rice and Water go in the Cooker

http://www.fixya.com/support/r5396567-much_rice_water_go_in_cooker

heatman101

well your rice cooker needs to be replaced.. if you still want to use it, then have it fixed by a technician coz it needs electrical expertise to handle the wirings inside it..