And that's my pet peeve with these newfangled rice cookers; everything (including the locking catch) is sealed into the entire unit, making manual extraction impossible if the button latch breaks or fails.
Back in our parents' days, the lid was its own separate piece thus making it impossible to ever encounter such issues. And the older all-in-one cookers would have the locking catch situated outside the shell; should the button latch ever fail, one could simply break off the catch and subsequently use heat resistant tape to secure the lid closed for future cookings.
But these modern ones? Hmmph, good luck trying to break open the plastic (or in some cases, metal) outer shell and destroying the entire unit in the process.
And that's my pet peeve with these newfangled rice cookers; everything (including the locking catch) is sealed into the entire unit, making manual extraction impossible if the button latch breaks or fails.
Back in our parents' days, the lid was its own separate piece thus making it impossible to ever encounter such issues. And the older all-in-one cookers would have the locking catch situated outside the shell; should the button latch ever fail, one could simply break off the catch and subsequently use heat resistant tape to secure the lid closed for future cookings.
But these modern ones? Hmmph, good luck trying to break open the plastic (or in some cases, metal) outer shell and destroying the entire unit in the process.
That's went some people prefer the two part style which has a separate lid, like the old fashioned ones do, no latch involved.