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Buy Low Price From Here Now Prepare entire meals, large or small, in one easy step. This digital rice cooker flawlessly prepares up to 16 cooked cups of any type of rice and will simultaneously steam meat and vegetables. It has a cool-touch exterior and an easy-to-use, programmable control panel that includes functions such as automatic warming and delay timer. The removable heavy-duty inner pot is non-stick for easy serving and cleanup. Includes measuring cup, steam tray and rice paddle. Uses approximately 8 cups of uncooked rice to prepare 16 cups of cooked rice.
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- Prepares up to 16 cups of cooked rice using 8 cups of uncooked rice
- Steams meats and vegetables while simultaneously cooking rice for simple, healthy one-pot meals
- 15-hour delay timer for flexible and convenient meal planning
- Digital LED display for clear delay timer setting
- Automatically keeps food warm, fresh and moist for up to 12 hours
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"Didn't last very long!!" 2010-01-19
By Tonya E. Moore (PA)
Our old rice cooker quit working so, we bought the Aroma 8 cup at Target. It worked great for about 2 months and then it just stopped working. As it was from Target and we didn't have the original box or receipt, we are unable to return it. My husband tried to fix it and checked all the electrical pieces of the machine and couldn't find out why it just stopped working. When it did work it was a really nice rice cooker. The pan was really easy to clean and the digital buttons were nice. It even had a delayed cook time on it...I just wish it had last longer the it did.
"Okay at Best" 2010-01-16
By D. Gutierrez
The rice cooker is okay for the price, it cooks rice..
The whole process of having to wash the rice is a real hassle, and then adding just the right amount of water is annoying. I mention the water measurement because it seems if you go over a little over the specified measurements you're screwed and dealing with a bubbling, gurgling drooling rice cooker that becomes much more difficult to clean. The cooker also takes quiet a while to cook the rice, but overall it's alright-not the best..not the worst.
"Great quality at a great price!" 2010-01-15
By J. Krause
We took a chance and bought this instead of a more expensive model from Kohl's. It works perfectly. Great value!
"Decent cooker for the Japanese/Chinese way to prepare rice" 2010-01-06
By Yoshi Mato (Beach Cities, CA USA)
I eat imported long grain white rice everyday. I used basic models with unsealed lids, and high end Japanese brands with fuzzy logic. I gave this product 4 star for the unbeatable price and performance.
The cheaper basic models without sealed lids are pretty good too, for cooking rice. To prevent messy steam, the trick is to use an oversize cooker. If you only use half of the capacity, you shouldn't need to clean up the table after cooking. A non-stick coating saves you time cleaning and saves rice. The rice is usually on the soft and moist side of things, but that's most people prefer anyway. It's harder to do drier and crispier rice.
This model is almost perfect for cooking white rice. For the price I don't suppose you eat premium rice everyday from true Asian specialty shops, right? There's little difference for this model and high end models if your rice isn't that premium.
This cooker is primarily designed to prepare rice the way the Asians eat, particularly the Japanese and Chinese. This is not to make microwave multi-grain paste. You have to make the engineers and designers willing to eat your paste so they can understand how to cook it. No amount of high end fuzzy logic can make your paste the way you like it all by itself if the engineers haven't thought of it.
For cooking white rice, this one is as good as any, unless you have exquisite taste in premium rice. For steaming vegetable and other things, it's quite handy steaming alone or cooking rice at the same time. When steaming alone, it stops automatically when the water is all gone.
Everything is best eaten fresh. And with a delay timer, there's no reason to keep the rice in warm mode for long after cooking. The warm mode tend to dry out the rice a bit for long periods.
There's a bit of inconsistency in the manual. The steam vent of my model can only be pulled out from the outside, not from the inside. Lucky that I didn't damage the lid. You actually do not need to disconnect the electric cord when in the off state. But I'm sure it's not recommended for legal liability reasons, and to save some energy. In my opinion it's as safe as not unplugging the TV after watching. Also there's a flat little plastic cup below the lid hinge, for collecting condensed water from the lid, which the manual didn't mention. The little ring at the opposite side of the plastic cup is the temporary holder for the rice spatula.
For higher end models there is an extra electric plug at the bottom of the cookers, secured in position by magnetic force. Unplugging and plugging are as easy as pushing a button.
For more expensive models, basically there are two lids. The inner lid is easily detachable for you to rinse it in water together with the inner pot. The outer lid, fixed to the cooker, hardly ever needs cleaning or attention. For this model, even though the lid is directly exposed to the steam, the lid looked clean after cooking. I doubt very much if you need to clean it every time if you only cook rice in the normal way. If you steam vegetable or just put the steam tray in, you shouldn't be cleaning the lid at all.
With the single lid design, the steam condensed to water at the lid and soft plastic seal. When you open the lid, some of the condensed water will drain through the little plastic cup below the lid hinge. A small amount of water will be collected at the seals. It's not likely to happen, but if you close the lid again a few drop of water may drip down to the cooking surface, when you have taken the inner pot out. But then a few drops probably will not hurt the cooking surface or the inner pot.
I do not like that it beeps too loud, too high pitch, louder than my microwave. I do not like the - - sign shown when the delay timer is not in use. It's also too brightly red when in the off state. I prefer a green or yellow little dot, not too bright in the dark but easy to spot in day light.
As with all rice cookers, if you put it under anything, the wood above will be damaged because of the steam. I attach a thin plate of clear acrylic at the bottom of the wooden cabinet to protect it. Or you can just pull it out in the open while cooking, and push it back after.
If you are careful, the non-stick surface should last enough for your $40. I don't know about the plastic seal though. My experience with over the top kettles is that the seal is the first thing to go. But they sell replacement parts and the cost of the seal is still a small fraction of the kettle.
The cooker is on the slow side, taking about 30 min to cook. Higher end cookers don't cook a lot faster because you cannot boil away the water too fast. Big simple unsealed cookers can cook some 10 or more minutes faster. But the quality of the cook rice cannot be compared. I'm sure microwave can cook a lot faster.
"........" 2009-12-26
By Niro Haryamen Bin Ra
I recommend you guys to buy 366 Delicious ways to cook rice, beans and grains..
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