He and his wife decided to run an online shop on a local e-commerce shopping platform in Thailand and ordered items such as electric rice cookers and barbecue ovens.

他和妻子决定在泰国当地的一个电子商务购物平台上经营一家网店，并订购了电饭煲和烧烤炉等商品。

"With the deal, up to five types of small home appliances, including radiant cookers and vacuum cups, will be available to local users," said Li Xiaoqu, chairman of Kongque, adding that the total amount is 20 percent more than that of last year.

In early November, Miji introduced its latest induction cooker with various versions, including smaller portable ones and those with three to six stovetop burners.

The cooker can be used at home and also at commercial kitchens.

Among the top five electric cooker makers in the China market, Miji was the No 1 seller, taking the lion's share of 36 percent, according to market research firm CIC.

In the early 1990s, Maeck received her master's degree in Germany where she got to study induction cookers.

Other home appliance products under its sub-brand Mijia include air purifiers, cleaning robots, rice cookers, smart lamps and cameras.

Smart toilets, along with air purifiers and rice cookers, were included by a guideline released by the State Council in April 2016 to improve quality-oriented industries and the quality of made-in-China products.

South Korean rice cooker manufacturer Cuckoo Electronics said that as the three northeastern Chinese provinces of Jilin, Heilongjiang and Liaoning account for a large proportion of its offline market in China, the company considers expanding its market to Eastern and Southern China and hopes to send representatives to visit Jilin as soon as possible to discuss cooperation projects.

Managers of the company's overseas business department said products including air fryer ovens, microwaves, pressure cookers and dishwashers show that the company's low-carbon cooking technologies are creating sustainable kitchen lifestyles.

Chinese manufacturers who export goods ranging from sockets, decorations, shoes and induction cookers to electric hot pots and other products face the same issues－soaring raw material and shipping costs, weakening overseas demand for goods, pandemic and geopolitical headwinds.

On Friday nights, Gu Mingming, a 30-year-old network engineer in Shanghai, typically takes out a bottle of uncooked rice, pours the rice into a rice cooker, then measures the amount of water needed to cook the rice using the now empty rice bottle.

Zaiceva Maria Yurievna, a Russian customer living in Moscow, has purchased a mobile phone, a rice cooker, and a stereo from China via cross-border e-commerce during this "Double 11.

Four tents, including MSR, Hilleberg and The Free Spirits, two cookers, several alpenstocks and sleeping bags that he uses on various trips, are his favorite outdoor equipment.

I needed a water boiler, a rice cooker, and an all-in-one mixer and soup maker suitable for both cold and warm beverages.

The growth in sales was much higher than that of traditional products such as rice cookers, according to All View Cloud, a Beijing-based consultancy specializing in home appliances.

Online sales of small household appliances such as rice cookers and air purifiers made up over 80 percent.

But nowadays, Liu would stay at home and prepare breakfast and dinner by herself, such as stewing a bowl of chicken soup with the electric cooker and baking food.

Sales of high-speed blenders rose six-fold in the first seven months compared with the same period last year, and that of the electric rice cookers increased three-fold yearon-year.

At noon, she stews a bowl of chicken soup with the electric cooker, and uses steam mops to clean the room.

But the offline sales of rice cookers, electric kettles and electric pressure cookers dropped more than 80 percent compared with the same period of last year, the consultancy said.

At the same time, sales of home cooking equipment, from digital bread ovens to new woks and rice cookers, have surged, giving rise to markedly higher home delivery demand for flour and butter.

It took Smash customer Qiu Siyu just a few sharp blows with a baseball bat to wreck what looked like an old car radio, after which two friends battered telephones, audio speakers, rice cookers and even a mannequin.

Air cookers, food processors and other kitchen appliances have built-in recipes, making it easier than ever to cook like a master chef.

With a few taps on the dashboard, I set the rice cooker on scheduled time before leaving the house.

Using their smartphones, they can even instruct a smart cooker in the kitchen to start making breakfast.