On 12/16/2012 3:53 PM, J. Clarke wrote:
>
> If you google "rice washer" you will find expensive commercial ones for
> restaurant use and purpose made bowls for home use. Remember, the
> Japanese eat rice with just about every meal and they love gadgets. If
> there was a market for an automated rice washer for home use they'd be
> selling one.
>


I know that the automatic rice cooker was as important an invention for
the Japanese as the electric washing machine was for the Western family.
The thing about my idea is that it uses a new method of washing rice.
The designs for home use appear to be just another container for washing
rice.