Aroma Housewares (ARC-914SBD) Digital Cool-Touch Rice Grain Cooker and Food Steamer Reviews

No matter what’s cooking though, reviewers appreciate that the rice cooker and its accompanying scooper are made of non-stick material. One says, “The cooker also comes with a rice paddle/scooper and miracle of miracles, the rice doesn’t stick to it so it’s really easy to serve the rice."

If you love a good stir fry, homemade sushi or basically any other dish made with tasty rice, but don’t like the hassle of cooking it often, a rice cooker can be a really useful appliance. It can save you time with its automatic functions or even cook parts of your meal simultaneously.

The rice cooker I liked very much, I have already had other brands, but it really looks quite like the Japanese ones, with more options than just lowering a bowl, very easy to use, it heats fast and gives you the possibility to do other things besides rice, such as steamed vegetables, soup, and as you can do chicken, and other things, I like that in your manual come with times to heat vegetables properly and have an option to keep things warm.

The inner cooking pot and all accessories remove for easy cleanup in the dishwasher. Aroma also includes the steam tray, a custom rice measuring cup, serving spatula, soup ladle, and a recipe booklet.

This is my 5th rice cooker and my second Aroma. I had been using Zojurushi rice cooker but when my 3rd one broke I told myself enough with buying expensive rice cookers. My first Aroma rice cooker I bought as extra for my Asian parties. I've had it for almost 15 years and it still cooks perfect rice every time. I was looking for a rice cooker that cooks perfect brown rice and was even willing to apu big bucks for one. When my sister told me about this Aroma rice cooker with brown rice option for less than $50, I thought she was kidding- so glad she wasn't and I found this Aroma rice cooker on Amazon. Now my husband and I already enjoying our perfectly cooked brown rice?? Great product !! I would pay big bucks again for rice cooker when I could get Aroma rice cooker for this price...

I have this rice cooker, but I favor my glass top one. Much easier to clean, and it cooks rice equally well. If you're interested steaming food while cooking rice, this is a good option. If not, it's more trouble than it's worth to clean. You need to remove an inner lid and wash it after every use, and wipe down the interior of the machine itself. It also has a steam and "goo" trap that needs to be removed every time as well.

I don't steam food often enough to make use of this device. Those looking for a "set it and forget it" meal option will most likely find use for this rice cooker. I'd shoot for the larger model at that point though, since the steam tray severely limits the amount of rice you can cook and the steam tray capacity is quite small.

Anyway, it's a great product and it works well. It just doesn't suit my needs at all.

Okay. I'll give it five stars based on the rice it produces and easy of use and design. It does indeed make pretty much perfect rice, white, brown, wild, etc. as well as other grains. It comes with a little measuring cup. The water level marks inside (none too easy to see, are calibrated for the number of these little cups of grain you use. But the cup is about 3/4 cup, Why? Because that's 1-gou, the standard Japanese rice serving measure. But that's no big deal. Nor is it a problem that the water marks inside are hard to read. Just use one measure of water to one measure of rice. I know. That's different from your usual ratio for stovetop rice.

The Aroma rice cooker is an excellent kitchen tool. Operation is fairly straight forward and provides excellent rice. One thing to watch out for is when steaming vegetables along with the rice will usually be done in about 12 minutes, however that is not the case if steaming vegetables by themselves. The rice will attenuate the steam and if you steam vegetables by themselves, the time required is less than half that time. Precise timing of the cooker is what will yield crispy vegetables and fluffy rice.

I bought my first Panasonic SR-G06FG in 2011. When I accidently used a nonstick friendly utensil one too many times on my rice cooker, I started looking for a replacement in 2015. I was lulled by positive reviews, fancy features and a more stylish appearing product into purchasing the Aroma 8-cup digital rice cooker as a replacement. After 3 months, I gave it to a friend and bought another Panasonic SR-G06FG.

Aroma Digital Rice Cooker and Food Steamer is going to be your best friend if you cook and eat rice often. The last thing you want is uncooked hard rice that’s not edible or burnt. There are many cheaper alternatives with a single switch that can cook or keep warm, but this rice cooker can delay up to 15 hours, which is perfect to get it ready for coming home after work. I’ve tried out a few rice cooker myself, and this works perfectly to prepare some steamy rice that’s just right. That’s coming from an Asian who grew up eating rice everyday too!