Rice cooker markings confusion: cup scale vs liter scale on a 3L rice cooker

Hi everyone,

I’m a bit confused about the markings inside my rice cooker and I’d really appreciate some clarification.

I understand the cup scale:

• For example, if I add 2 cups of rice, I then add water up to the “2” mark on the cup scale.
• In my rice cooker, 1 cup = 160 ml (this is stated in the manual).

That part makes sense to me.

What I don’t understand is the other half of the markings, the ones labeled in liters (L).

My rice cooker is advertised as a 3-liter model, and physically the inner pot can indeed hold about 3 liters of water. However, the maximum marking on the liter scale inside the pot only goes up to 1.2 L, which is confusing to me.

So my questions are:

• What exactly does the 1.2 L marking represent if the cooker is 3 L in capacity?
• Is the liter scale measuring something different than the physical volume of the pot?
• How should the liter markings be used (if at all) compared to the cup markings?

I’m probably missing something obvious, but the fact that a 3 L cooker shows a maximum of 1.2 L on the internal scale is throwing me off.

Thanks in advance for any explanations!