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by fkyoureadthedoc 596 days ago
> That knowledge about the ideal timespan of 20 min seems to be completely irrelevant to the implemented solution.

Partially. They also mentioned that it was generally believed that you needed to vary the temperature during cooking to get fluffy rice. Fumiko's discovery is just as much about the fact that you can use a straight boil the whole time as it is about the duration.