Brand |
Aroma Housewares |
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Capacity |
5 Quarts |
Product Dimensions |
11.5"D x 11.25"W x 11"H |
Power Source |
Corded Electric |
Color |
Silver |
Special Feature |
Programmable |
Material |
Aluminum |
Item Weight |
5.95 pounds |
Wattage |
1550 watts |
Included Components |
Steam Tray, Rice Measuring Cup, Serving Spatula |
Voltage |
120 Volts |
Model Name |
Rice Cooker, Multicooker & Steamer |
Manufacturer |
Aroma Housewares |
ASIN |
B07H1MT9SX |
Country of Origin |
China |
Item model number |
ARC-1020SB |
Customer Reviews |
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Best Sellers Rank |
#71 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining) #2 in Rice Cookers |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer |
No |
Date First Available |
September 4, 2018 |
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Prince of PeasPrince of Peas –
TL;DR: Buy this, it’s amazing. There’s no need to buy a fancier model, this makes perfect rice, is simple, is inexpensive, and does not take up much room.As someone with extensive experience in the kitchen, both professionally and at home, I cannot imagine anything simpler to cook than rice. There are only 2 ingredients, rice & water and it’s not very complicated. With so many appliances in my kitchen, why bother with another thing to buy, use once, and take up storage space? I have enough gadgets that seemed great on paper (air fryers, bread makers, etc.) which did not do the job as well as I could do using traditional methods, and which were often difficult to clean and maintain. So, a rice cooker? A machine to replace the easiest food in the world to cook? Why?My wife had suggested one, after all, all of the restaurants that served rice used them. But, I explained (probably incorrectly) they need to make a LOT of rice; we don’t, and that’s probably why they use them. Then I came across an article in one of my favorite food magazines, where they test products and came across their review of rice cookers. This rice cooker received the highest rating and was the least expensive of all their tests (and this is a serious chef’s magazine, not supported by advertising; their reviews are spot-on and unbiased). And so, I bit the bullet and thought that if it was garbage, I’d just toss it, it was inexpensive enough.As soon as I got this, I wanted to use it and prove to my wife why it was a waste of money and space, and how even a review from an almost always dependable magazine, could be wrong, Of course, I tried some basmati rice because I knew that there was no way that I was going to get fluffy rice with discrete, pieces of rice not stuck together. Once more I would show her who was right.Wrong.After about 33 minutes when the machine said that the rice was done, I opened the lid and, behold, it was perfect! Each grain of rice was perfectly cooked, separate from all the other grains, flowable, and it was the same from the top of the pot to the bottom. Amazing and impressive.Then I decided that the time/temperature etc. of this gadget must have been designed for basmati rice, let’s try some short-grain sticky rice for sushi. Damn, how does it know? Again, perfect.I’m now a believer, I admit I was very wrong, and the answer to who needs a rice cooker is: I do and You do.- This machine cleans up beautifully, it leaves no rice on the bottom of the pot.- It is simple to use.- It cooks rice perfectlyMy only issue with it is, as per the attached photos, it is very difficult to see the water line markings on the inside of the pot. This machine is too good, however, to deduct any points for that.Two things to point out:1) The cup that it comes with equals 3/4 of a dry cup measure. It says that in the instructions but on the cup itself, there is a 3/4 full mark. That’s a bit confusing but, the measuring cup is 3/4 cup when it is filled to the top. If you fill it to the 3/4 mark, you’re weighing out 3/4 of a cup (or a little over 1/2 of a regular cup) so just fill it to the brim.2) There is a steam vent on the lid. It’s probably not best to place this under a cabinet; condensation will form on the underside of the cabinet and drip or, worse, penetrate the cabinet wood and get moldy. Keep it in a position so that the vent is clear of anything above it.I highly recommend, despite my previous insistence that nobody needs a rice cooker, this machine. It’s amazing.Review of: Aroma Housewares 2-8-Cups (Cooked) Digital Cool-Touch Rice Grain Cooker and Food Steamer
Scott –
I have used this rice cooker at least once every week for the past several months. I simply put the rice and water in, push the start button selecting the type of rice I am cooking, and it beeps when the rice is ready. It is literally that simple! It makes excellent rice with minimal effort and easy clean up. I am very pleased with this purchase.Note that I have found that about an extra quarter cup or so of water is needed so the rice is moist when done. Also, it does take a while for the rice to cook so I always make it earlier than the rest of the meal which is fine because it has a wonderful warming function that keeps it warm long after it is finished cooking making timing meals a breeze.I have not yet used the steaming function.I highly recommend this product!
Katarina –
I bought this for myself a couple of years ago, and then brought it to my parents’ place while visiting. It was easy enough for them to operate and they commented on how much better the rice tasted than from the boxes or microwavable options. They liked it so much, I left it there when I left and bought the same one for myself again. It does a great job of cooking a little rice or a lot, is easy to clean, and is compact enough to put away while it’s not needed. Very happy with the product!
Mazeman –
This is a great rice cooker at a great price. Does everything I’d ever need: Cook rice, time the rice, keep warm, cook other stuff like grains/brown rice, steam. Very intuitive. Personally, I don’t see what I’d ever need from the “Cadillac” rice cookers that can cost 8X more.
Sherri –
I always use brown rice and was leery about buying this kind of steamer. I had a vegetable and rice steamer for over 10 years that I loved. It was just an oval one with the clear plastic bowl for the veggies and had a rice bowl you put in it. It had a dial that you turned to the amount of time y9u wanted your food to cook for. It was perfect for brown rice because I could put however much water I wanted In with the rice and then set it for 60 minutes and then later another 15-20. So I was sad when it died and nervous about this one.This one did work very well. I followed the directions, but did add a little extra water. I found that for brown rice, the recommended amount of water was not enough. When I checked on it after it was done, the water had completely absorbed in and the brown rice was a little too hard. Not crunchy or really hard, just not quite right. (I do not like my rice mushy. I have eaten brown rice all my life, along with other grains.) i had to add more water and cook it for a little longer. I did find that some rice was stuck to the bottom, but not burned. I have always used twice as much water to brown rice and cooked it for around 80 minutes. I think with brown rice, it will take some experimenting to figure out what works best for each person. Next time, I’m going to add more water and cook it longer. (only way to cook it longer than 60 minutes is to start it over again, which is easy.) If I end up adding too much water, I will just cook it a little longer.I washed it by hand, and I didn’t put it in the dishwasher. It is small and light so it is easy to put in a cupboard. There are some recipes in the manual for other grains.Anyway, I like this and it did work for brown rice. You just might have to experiment with the cooking time and water amount a little bit.The only thing that bugs me is that the inside pan the rice goes in has two sets of lines and numbers. It has cups on one side and a lower case e on the other. The lines under the e do not match up with the lines under the word cups. The numbers are different too. The ones under the e are 0.2 up through 0.8. I thought maybe the e and the 0.2-0.8 was liters or something but am not sure. I read the manual and googled and couldn’t find the answer. I’m sure it is something obvious, and doesn’t effect anything at all. I’m just curious.Update 12/19/20- After using this rice cooker quite often between now and when I got it, I wish I had bought a different rice cooker. My old Sunbeam one was much better. With the Aroma cooker, the water that is in with the rice is what is steaming. The rice comes out pretty stuck together, no matter how I adjust the water amount. If I follow the directions and only use the proper amount of water, the brown rice isn’t cooked enough and is hard still. Another big disadvantage of the Aroma is that the rice sticks to the bottom and while I don’t have to scrub it off, I do have to soak it for hours and apply pressure with a dish cloth to get it clean. The Sunbeam, which I include a link for so you can see what I’m talking about, had you put water below what you are steaming. It had a bowl for the rice and you also put water in with the rice. The water that was below and not with the rice is what got hot and steamy. It cooked the rice just fine, perfectly in fact. The timer only went for 60 minutes, so I did have to add some more time, but this was no big deal. Often, I would start the rice earlier in the day at around 2 or 3 and then cook it the last 20 or so before dinner. The Sunbeam was also much easier to clean. The brown rice turned out soft, but not mushy, and was not all stuck together. It was perfect. The only thing thing the Aroma has that I like better is that it does have a delay start.(It was this one, but I am not paying this much-https://www.amazon.com/Sunbeam-Instant-4710-Vegetable-Cooker/dp/B07MMG9L96/ref=asc_df_B07MMG9L96/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=385191967814&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17843216542356355794&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9032623&hvtargid=pla-836131536875&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=78082493949&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=385191967814&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17843216542356355794&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9032623&hvtargid=pla-836131536875)
P. Schmidt –
I bought this AROMA brand rice cooker to replace a larger vegetable steamer (by a different manufacturer) that had an attachment for cooking rice. I wanted to have a cooker that was primarily for rice, with the option to steam vegetables and/or cook other foods, while being smaller when stored on the countertop, and easier to clean than my old one. Based on other Amazon reviews, I selected this one.Before I forget to write it, I think it is important to point out that this cooker is rated for 8 cups of COOKED rice, NOT 8 cups of uncooked rice. The usual ratio for regular white rice is 1:2, meaning that if you put in 1 cup of uncooked rice, you will have 2 cups of cooked rice when done. So with this product you can put in a maximum of 4 cups of uncooked rice, and will end up with a maximum of 8 cups of cooked rice.It is also important to note that if you choose to use the optional (included) vegetable steamer/food cooker tray, this fits inside the rice cooker pot and therefore takes up some of the space in that pot; you can cook rice AND steam vegetables/cook food simultaneously, but you cannot fit the full measure of rice when doing so. In my estimate, if you put in a cup or two of uncooked rice, the vegetable steamer/food cooker tray holds about enough to feed two people when combined with the rice. It is certainly not large enough to simultaneously cook rice and other food in quantities for a family; AROMA makes a similar product with a larger capacity if you need it.I shopped in several stores (Sears, Bed Bath & Beyond, Target, Macy’s) before buying this cooker. They all carried electric rice cookers, but none had this product. Sears has AROMA products, but only in a less expensive non-digital version, while BB&B had a similar cooker by West Bend that did not look as good in terms of quality. But the majority of places I looked carried only non-digital rice cookers. I mention this because I think the digital ones have a couple of advantages that are significant enough to comment on:- The cooker is not simply based on cooking time; there is some sort of measurement going on that assures properly cooked rice.- The cooker can be programmed to start cooking while you are away, so that the rice (or other food) will be ready when you want to eat it.- The cooker automatically goes into a ‘keep warm’ mode once cooking is done, and will work well in this regard for at least a few hours.This cooker includes the following:- Cooker itself (included the digital controller and the heating element)- Teflon coated (non-stick) rice cooker pot- Plastic vegetable steamer/food cooker tray- Plastic stirring spatula (used once rice is cooked)- Clear plastic measuring cup (1 cup capacity)- Users manual- Quick start guide- Rice recipesBasic rice cooking goes like this:- Measure uncooked rice, using included cup or any other measuring cup- Pour rice into pot- If cooking white rice, pour in some water, stir with included spatula (or wooden spoon, etc), drain water (this optional step helps rinse away excess starch)- Add water to pot (which already contains rice) until water level reaches measuring mark on inside of pot that corresponds with amount of rice- Close cooker lid- Press POWER button- Press either the WHITE RICE or BROWN RICE button- Cooking starts, and is monitored by the digital controller; display shows rotating LED pattern, ‘Cooking’ LED illuminates- When digital controller estimates that about 12 minutes remain, display stops rotating pattern and starts showing count down minutes until done- Cooker beeps loudly for a few seconds, automatically enters KEEP WARM mode, ‘Keep Warm’ LED illuminates- When ready to eat, press POWER button twice to turn cooker off, open lid and remove pot- Stir cooked in pot using included spatula (or wooden spoon, etc)The manual includes a chart for estimating cooking time, but in general white rice takes 20-30 minutes, and brown rice takes twice that time.I have done small and large batches of both white rice, brown rice, and also a batch of wild rice, and all came out perfectly, properly cooked but not mushy. White rice had a nice level of stickiness of the sort that lends itself to eating with chopsticks, but without being TOO sticky, so you can easily break it up by stirring more with the spatula.In my tests, I always used the recommended water amount (i.e. I filled the pot to the measurement line that matched the amount of uncooked rice I put in), EXCEPT for the wild rice; the cooker does not have a setting for wild rice, so I followed the instructions on the rice bag, putting in 1-3/4 cup of water for each cup of uncooked rice, and then using the BROWN RICE mode on the cooker.I have not used the optional vegetable steamer/food cooker tray, so I cannot comment on that very much. But the manual includes extra steps for setting up cooking in the tray only (i.e. no rice cooking), as well as simultaneous cooking of rice and other foods. There are ways to specify time values that apply to the foods in the optional tray, so the cooker is not going only on its normal method for rice-only cooking.Besides using the product for cooking rice, and other things in the optional tray, it can be used as a sort of ‘crock pot’ for heating soups, chili, stews, etc. In this case, you just put the food to be heated into the pot directly and select the WHITE RICE mode. The food will be heated and then the cooker will keep it warm until you are ready to eat it. I tested this using a can of chili, and it worked well. This use of the cooker is mostly useful if you want to program it to start cooking while you are away, with cooking completed soon before you ARE ready to eat, OR to keep the food warm if you are uncertain about when you will be ready to eat.The pot is easy to clean. Since neither water or food are ever put into the body of the cooker, there should rarely be any need to clean it, other than wiping the inside of the lid in case any food splashed up onto it during cooking.The quality of this product seems very good. Nothing feels cheap. My only quibbles are that the power cord is quite short (obviously intended for use on a counter top, whereas I prefer to use it on a table that is further from the nearest outlet), and the ‘control panel’ area is quite reflective, and sometimes I have to view from different angles in order to read the buttons and/or the display and other LEDs.
Tony Oxley –
I needed a multi-cooker for rice, steamed vegetables, and hot cereal. This one is perfect! It’s compact which made me doubt it could really make 12 cups of cooked rice, but it does. The steam that is released is slow so it doesn’t condense under the cabinets, and the unit doesn’t bubble over the sides like with glass lids with little vents. It has a great automatic keep warm feature. The plug is two-prong which is wonderful for old houses. It has some other features, but I haven’t used them yet. I HIGHLY recommend this multi-cooker!
wayne jones –
We ordered this rice cooker because we needed something larger than a 4 cup cooker. This 8 cup rice cooker is awesome. We have used it several times so far and are completely happy with it, so far. The flash cook option is handy when you don’t want to wait the full 45-55 minutes on the white rice mode. It took 26 minutes for 3 cups of cooked rice to be ready, almost half of the time. We saw some videos and comments about it doesn’t work. The videos we have watched have some dummy saying it doesn’t work all while NOT having the rice pot in the cooker. DUH!!! There is a pressure button on the inside that allows the cooker to know that there is rice that needs to be cooked. Highly recommend this little cooker
DLo –
his is my favorite rice cooker; I’ve had it for a few years. I’ve also given it as a gift! The timer function is super easy, and it’s just the right size for me. I rarely would make a full 8 cooked cups, but I like to make a smaller amount of arborio rice, add raw chicken to the top, use a little extra broth, and cook it at the same time. I call it fauxotto. Unfortunately, I have used the wrong utensils on the inner pot a few too many times over the last years and scratched up the non-stick surface. Fortunately, I discovered you can reorder them on the Aroma website, which apparently I can’t link to here! But I just got TWO new ones today and am looking forward to continued rice!
LoriLori –
This is our second Aroma rice cooker. Our first one was close to 10 years old, still working but we decided to buy a new one. Just used the new one tonight and it worked fine, however, I’m not happy with the plastic serving spoon. It doesn’t fit well in the plastic notch on the side of the lid. Either the notch is too small, or the spoon handle is too big. Attached are pictures of the old rice cooker (spoon fits in that one) and the new one- you should be able to push the spoon down at least another inch or 2.