Aroma Cool-Touch Rice Cooker and Food Steamer

by Aroma

• Perfectly prepares 4 to 12 cups of cooked rice (2 to 6 cups uncooked)
• Steams vegetables and meat even while simultaneously cooking rice
• Makes delicious soups and stews
• Easy-to-use, one-touch operation switches to keep-warm mode automatically when finished
• Nonstick inner cooking pot removes for easy cleanup

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 10.6 x 10.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B002DML11K
• Item model number: ARC-1266F
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (141 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,171 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)
  • #21 in Kitchen & Dining > Small Appliances > Rice Cookers

Product Description

Size: 6-Cup

This cool-touch rice cooker from Aroma makes perfect rice, soups, stews and even steams meat and vegetables simultaneously. It flawlessly prepares up to 12 cups of any type of rice and automatically keeps it warm until you're ready to eat. Features a water reservoir that channels away excess condensation for rice that's light and fluffy, every time. Includes measuring cup, steam tray and serving spatula.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

53 of 53 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great rice cooker January 20, 2010

By C. Holmes

Amazon Verified Purchase

This thing works great, and it steams veggies at the same time!!!! Just read the instructions thoroughly. If you are cooking brown or wild rice the water measurements are different. Rice comes out fluffy and moist every time. And, it stays moist on the warm setting too. I had it in there staying warm for over an hour and you wouldn't have known it, seriously. Buy this!

44 of 44 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great buy -- doubly so, for the price! January 27, 2010

By K. D. Talley

Size Name:6-Cup|Amazon Verified Purchase

Wanted to make some great sushi -- and this pot turned out fabulous rice, couldn't have been better for the task! Also, since getting this Aroma, I've done several one-dish dinners in it, steaming meat & veggies right with the rice. Its done a dynamite job -- almost like having a cook in the house, finishing off dishes for me. Easy to clean, quick to store, and absolutely as represented -- an inexpensive yet faithful piece of equipment with nice range of skills. Plus -- you can cook -- and transport -- hot food in it to a potluck dinner, easily -- and without getting burned. How's that for the price?!!!

68 of 71 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for the price April 11, 2010

By dana

Size Name:6-Cup|Amazon Verified Purchase

This is a really cheap rice cooker, so naturally it's very simple and isn't as versatile as the more expensive models. However, if all you're interested in is the basic functionality, it does the job almost perfectly.

If you've ever used a rice cooker you probably already know everything there is to know about it, they all follow the same pattern. It's got a non-stick pan, a warming function, a spoon and a cup and a steam tray. Basic stuff so i won't go into that.

I'm not sure if there is any real difference in cooking times between different rice cookers (i would assume not since rice can only absorb water so quickly), but this does the job well. A cup or two of white rice takes 15 or 20 minutes to finish; if it's brown rice it'll be more like 30. It seems slightly faster than boiling, but not by much. (Definitely way more convenient though.)

Some things i did notice:

1. When you plug it in, it automatically goes into 'cook' mode, even if the lid is open and the button isn't pressed. This is kind of annoying, i don't understand why it does it.

2. As far as i can tell, you can't just leave it plugged in all the time like a toaster. It's always running as long as it's got power, so when you're done with it you have to unplug it. This is a minor irritation, because i'm lazy. :(

3. The manual comes with cooking directions, but in my experience so far they've been off. If i follow the manual's instructions, my rice always comes out a too dry, kind of with a fried-rice consistency. This is especially the case with brown rice (which requires more liquid obviously). Their water measurements are just too conservative. But this of course depends on what kind of rice you're using, whether you add any extra ingredients, and so on, so it'll vary. You'll figure it out after one or two attempts though.

If you're interested in a rice cooker but you're wondering if it's worth it to get one, i'd definitely recommend it, especially since this one is so cheap. I myself had not personally owned a rice cooker before (although i was familiar with them), so i was sceptical about whether it'd get enough use out of it to justify the cost.

But i do! It's much easier to make it in the rice cooker than it is on the stove; i can dump the rice in when i wake up, and go do what i need to do to get ready for work (without worrying about whether it'll burn), and then shovel it all out right before i leave. I eat a lot more rice now than i did before.