A method for controlling a rice cooking operation in a microwave oven including
setting up at least one rice cooking operation in the microwave oven based upon
the amount of rice and water mixture; heating the rice and the water in a cooking
chamber using a magnetron; computing the amount of the rice and the water by measuring
a vapor concentration within the cooking chamber; and cooking the rice according
to a cooking operation corresponding to the computed amount of rice and water.
Further, the present invention provides a microwave oven having at least one rice
cooking operation and a method of controlling the same, in which rice is cooked
by automatically sensing the amount of rice and water content using the method.
