For aging Japan, a cooker that makes chicken soft as butterBy Takashi Mochizuki and Yuki Furukawa / BloombergThe US$410 DeliSofter pot looks much like the rice cookers ubiquitous in Japanese households and it does prepare rice in 24 minutes. However, this invention of two Panasonic Corp engineers is designed to do more and help people with swallowing difficulties. A person uses a potato chip to cut a piece of fried chicken cooked in the DeliSofter during a demonstration at the Gifmo Co office in Kyoto, Japan, on Nov 9. Panasonic spun off Gifmo in 2019 to address that growing market, targeting a food segment estimated to surpass ￥200 billion (US$1.7 billion) in Japan alone by 2025. “So many who had encouraged us turned away and ordered us to stop working on the project,” Ogawa said.

Source: Taipei Times November 27, 2021 17:06 UTC