The invention discloses a fault detection method for an electric
cooker, and belongs to the technical field of kitchen appliances, for solving the technical problem that in the prior art, whether a drive part for driving a caliper
assembly to move breaks down or not can not be detected. For the fault detection method for the electric
cooker provided by the invention, the electric
cooker comprisesa cooker body, a cooker cover and a
master controller, wherein an inner pot is accommodated in the cooker body, the cooker cover comprises an inner cover, a caliper
assembly and a drive part, the
master controller controls the drive part to drive the caliper
assembly to perform radial
reciprocating motion, so that the locking or unlocking of the inner cover and the inner pot is completed, the cooker cover further comprises a detection switch used for detecting that whether the caliper assembly realizes the in-place locking or not, and the detection switch is connected with the
master controller. For the fault detection method for the electric cooker, after the electric cooker is powered on, the master controller judges that whether the caliper assembly realizes the in-place locking or notaccording to a detection
signal sent by the detection switch, and if judging that the caliper assembly
dose not realize in-place locking, the master controller controls the electric cooker to stop operation.