Snap, Crackle and Pop the early 1990s, but later returned to their original elf-like form. Likewise, there was briefly a fourth gnome in the 1950s named Pow who represented the claimed explosive nutritional value of Rice Krispies. Leo Burnett Worldwide assigned Chicago-based cartoonist Don Margolis to do Snap, Crackle and Pop for the Rice Krispies boxes as well as other applications. Davidson Marketing also used him for their Rice Krispies assignments. Don did the three gnomes until the end of 1998. "Snap", "crackle" and "pop" are terms, based on the Rice Krispies mascots, used for the fourth, fifth and sixth time derivatives of position.
Rice cooker cooking brown rice (which contains oils and bran fiber that cook differently from pure white rice starch). Some pressure rice cookers have a varying pressure control mechanism (named the "dual-pressure" method) that creates repeated pressure/release cycles during the cooking. There also exist mechanisms to collect and return the boiled over liquid to the inner rice bowl. Many cookers now have microprocessor-controlled cooking cycles, which are often used to adjust for rice and cooking type. Rice cookers are typically used for the preparation of plain or lightly seasoned rice. Each rice cooker model may be optimized to cook a certain type