PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of producing cooked rice by intermittent heating by which taste and mouthfeel, as well as the aging resistance, of the cooked rice are improved, by devising the heating conditions during the rice-cooking process.SOLUTION: In the method for producing cooked rice by intermittent heating, process of cooking rice is carried out in a plurality of steps, includes carrying out at least once a cooling step, particularly a compulsive cooling step, of once interrupting heating during a rice cooking process of cooking rice by heating a rice cooking container containing rice and cooking water and lowering the temperature in the rice cooking container by 0.1°C to 10°C in 1 to 10 minutes, and finishing rice cooking in the final heating step after carrying out the final cooling step.COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT【課題】炊飯工程における加熱条件を工夫することによって炊飯後の米飯の食味や食感を向上させるとともに、老化耐性の向上も図ることができる間欠加熱による米飯の製造方法を提供する。【解決手段】炊飯時の加熱を複数回に分けて行う間欠加熱による米飯の製造方法であって、米と炊き水とを投入した炊飯容器を加熱することにより米を炊き上げる炊飯工程中に加熱を一旦中断し、炊飯容器内の温度を1~10分間で0.1~10℃下げる冷却工程、特に強制冷却工程を少なくとも1回行い、最後の冷却工程を行った後の最後の加熱工程で米飯を炊き上げる。【選択図】図1
