Aroma Housewares 20 Cup Cooked (10 cup uncooked) Digital Rice Cooker, Slow Cooker, Food Steamer, SS Exterior (ARC-150SB),Black

I'm not one for writing reviews but after almost being dissuaded from purchasing this product by reading a slew of dumb reviews (like who decides to bake a potato in a rice cooker or who is confused at reading the simple instructions?) I decided to write one in the hopes that you will find this and this will help you make a decision whether to purchase or to not. I'm a simple guy who is terrible at cooking rice and has to feed a family of 6 regularly (not including the occasional guest that pops in unexpectedly). This rice cooker is awesome and I question why I waited so long to buy one. Sure, you could get a better one by dropping a couple hundred bucks on a fancy model but for what this does, it does it well. It takes about 35 minutes to cook rice for that many people. Yes, you can cook it faster by doing it the old fashioned way, but I find it very convenient to put the rice on first and just forget about it while I'm cooking the rest of the food. It makes juggling the stove much easier and frees up a burner slot so I could cook something else instead of micro-managing rice. The cup provided with the rice cooker is 3/4 the size of a regular cup of rice but even still one cup per person is more than enough. Put your rice in in and then fill the conveniently marked bowel with water up to the number of cups you used. For example, place 6 cups of rice and then fill with water up to the "6" marked line on the inside of the bowel. Easy-peasy. You DO have to rinse your rice off before you start the cooker to get rid of extra starch but this process only takes a minute or less and you don't need special tools or anything. I just put in the rice, add a bit of water, swirl it around, carefully drain the water out (the water will turn milky white), and literally rinse and repeat until the water is more or less clear upon draining. The rice comes out fluffy and great with nothing burned on the bottom of the pot. I've also cooked other things in the rice cooker as well like a beef stew and chili. Each time I cut up the meat, tossed it in, chopped up veggies, added water and spices, closed the lid and hit the "slow cooker" option. It says it will take 7 hours but a pot roast (cut into 3-5 inch cubes) only took about 4 hours to cook and the meat was just falling apart. SO GOOOOD! The instructions are simple and whenever you use this rice cooker please use the cup provided for easy measuring. Other than that it was worked great, cleans super easy, easy to operate, and does what it's supposed to do. You won't be disappointed. Hope this review helps! Also, feel free to ask me some questions if you have any. I'm no scientist but I might be able to help as well.

Very easy to use and cooks rice perfectly. Automatically keeps rice warm and is easy to clean. Great for daily meals.

The Aroma Housewares ARC-5000SB Professional Plus multicooker is a very good multicooker. With that said, I've considered returning once and still may return. The reason I'm thinking about returning (no fault of the cooker) is the cooker is a little larger that I thought when I purchased it. I'm in the process of consolidating my countertop cookers. I have a rice cooker, a 1.5 quart slow cooker and a 3 quart slow cooker. All of these cookers are manual. I'm would like to ideally replace them with just one cooker as long as the cooker does an adequate job and fits well. When I bought this cooker, I was under the impression that this is a 4 quart cooker as that is what's listed by Amazon. But that's incorrect as this actually is a 5 quart cooker. So, it's a little large to sit on my counter top all the time. As for the cooker besides it size,, it has a logical layout of preset buttons. The ones I've use are brown rice, steam and slow cook. A main reason I bought this cooker is it has both a low and high setting on slow cook mode. I've tried two other cookers but each only had a single temperature setting. Once didn't slow cook hot enough and the other was too hot. It is nice to have a cooker that has both settings. The cooker includes an instruction booklet, a rice laddle, and a plastic steamer basket. The booklet is understandable (not broken English like in some). The rice laddle works fine. The steamer basket works well as for withstanding the heat but I did not notice the hole are a little large say if yo wish to steam older rice. Bits of rice might all through. Not too bad, but noticeable. A big disadvantage to this cooker (like so many) is the design of having a lid that doesn't detach for cleaning. The only part of the lid that detaches is the plastic vent underside the lide. This mean to clean the lid the popular way is the wipe down under the lid. I found that instead of wiping, I'd slowly have tilt the cooker about 90 degrees enough to put the lid under soapy water while taking care to not get any water in the cooking element. That approach works but is awkward to do. I was overall happy with the results of cooking with this multicooker. Brown rice turned out good (though not as good or fast as when I used a pressure cooker). The water markings on the inner pot were pretty much not readable so I had to add not referring to them. As a steamer, that turned out good too and it's nice to have preset 5,10, 15 minutes of steam time at a touch of a button. As a slow cooker, the cooker performed well in making spaghetti sauce started off first on low then changed to high for about the last two hours. Here is what I like and dislike of this multicooker: -------------------------------------------------------- Likes: - low and high settings in slow cook mode that performed well - efficient pre-programmed buttons to press - stain steel outer covering - does a good job cooking brown rice Dislikes: - non removeable, difficult to clean lid design - inner pot water markings not legible - inner pot not stainless steel - steamer basket not stainless steel There are some shortcomings to the multicooker. The biggest one is the non-removeable lid that make the lid difficult to clean. But that's not enough to penalize a star since (unfortunately) that seems the consensus of most multicookers. The cooker does a great job as a cooker handling different tasks. Though I may end up returning and looking for something that better fits size wise on my countertop, I give the Aroma Housewares ARC-5000SB Digital five stars.

Simplicity. Built extremely well and gets your rice perfectly cooked.

Very nice rice cooker works great has many options

I love this cooker. I bought the one with the professional ceramic coating because I don’t like non-stick surface coatings. But it’s already scratching that’s why four stars. It’s a wonderful cooker. I wish the instructions were more clear. They’re very hard to understand and confusing. But all in all it does a beautiful job. You just have to experiment a bit. I wish there were a ceramic or stainless steel option for the cooking vessel.

I absolutely love this rice cooker! It makes cooking rice so easy—perfectly fluffy every single time without any hassle. The 20-cup capacity is amazing for family meals or gatherings, and I also appreciate the versatility. It’s not just a rice cooker; it doubles as a slow cooker and steamer, which makes it a true all-in-one appliance in my kitchen. The digital controls are straightforward and very user-friendly, and the stainless steel design looks sleek and modern on the counter. Cleanup is quick and simple too. Overall, this rice cooker has exceeded my expectations—I highly recommend it to anyone who loves convenience and delicious meals!

Muy buena arrocera. Me ha funcionado bastante bien. Es pequeña y cómoda para no tener una opción tan grande. Es fácil d dudar y el arroz queda muy bien. Aún no la utilizo con otros granos.

Appareil qui m'a explosé à la figure! Dangereux !!!

Tras un año de uso, sigue funcionando perfectamente! Se siente de muy buena calidad y resistente, es fácil de usar y no tiene pierde. No soy el mejor cocinero por lo que el arroz me solía quedar siempre batido, sinceramente está arrocera fue mi salvación ya que me encanta el arroz, incluso me a servido para hervir frijoles cuando me he quedado sin gas en mi casa. Totalmente recomendado.

I bought this rice cooker a couple months ago, and so far it cooks excellent white and brown rice! I am Asian and we pretty much cook rice everyday. I have tried white jasmine rice and white basmati rice and the texture comes out perfect all the time, with or without the delay setting. I have also tried brown jasmine rice and red cargo rice and they also turn out with perfect results. The rice is soft, tender, fluffy and grains are separate. I do find better results when you SOAK the rice for at least 30 mins. before starting to cook, or use the delay timer. Even if you don't, there is minimal browning on the bottom. I think the trick is to RINSE the rice thoroughly until the water runs pretty much clear. The more starch you remove from the rice, the less browning on the bottom you will have. When I wash the rice really well, there is no browning at the bottom at all. I think maybe if you keep the rice too long on the "warm" setting, this might cause some browning because I'm not too sure how hot the temp of the bottom plate gets that keeps the rice warm for hours. I have followed the instructions from the manual to the "T" for how many cups of rice to put and where to fill the water line. I have never had any problems with spills or overflowing water whether I'm cooking white or brown rice. So far, I have cooked as much as 6 cups uncooked rice with no mess. As for cleaning, like some other reviewers, I usually use a paper towel. I do remove the black knob above the inside of the lid each time I cook rice and the clear water catcher and wash those with soap and water. I have young kids, so I find baby wash cloths do a great job at wiping the inside of the lid as well. The inner rice container washes easily with soap and water, or I suppose you could also put it in your dish washer. Overall, having used this product for 2 months, just about everyday, it works like more expensive brands/models for a fraction of the price. I am still in disbelief how cheap it is for stainless steel, fuzzy logic technology and with how well it cooks rice. I haven't tried steaming or slow cooking in it yet, so I will add to my comment when I do. I anticipate those functions to work great since the "main" function of this product cooks amazing rice!

the plug was not for EU or UK. Adaptor costs over £100 pounds. couldn't get any help from seller when asked so i had to return