Aroma ARC720G 10-cup Rice Cooker with Glass Lid

by Aroma Housewares

Product Features

• Cooks rice and keeps it warm for hours
• Use also to steam seafood and vegetables and cook custards and eggs
• Can also be used to stir-fry meals in oil
• Measuring cup for rice and water, spatula, and steam rack included
• 9 inches high to lid knob; 13 inches in diameter, including handles

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 10.5 x 9.5 inches ; 7.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 8 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004RD9E
• Item model number: ARC720G
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #340,464 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Busy cooks cherish rice cookers. This model cooks up to 10 cups of dry rice and keeps it warm. A rack fits in the rice-cooking pan for steaming seafood and vegetables, cooking hard- or soft-boiled eggs, and cooking custards in their own containers. By heating oil in the pan and then pressing the "cook" switch again when ingredients are added, the manufacturer says stir-frying foods is possible. A glass lid permits monitoring of the cooking process. Instructions and a cooking chart explain everything clearly. A measuring cup and serving spatula are included. The cooker operates with admirable simplicity--just push a switch to start. When cooking is completed, the unit automatically goes into its keep-warm mode. Stay-cool handles on the cooker/steamer's sides permit it to be moved. Only plastic scrubbers and mild detergent should be used for cleaning. --Fred Brack

Product Description

4-20 cups of rice. Steams fish meat poultry and vegetables. Cooks variety of white brown and wild rice to perfection. Easy-view tempered glass lid Automatic heating and warm system One-touch operation. Easy to use and clean.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars extremely disappointing, November 9, 2000

By 

Gaylin Walli - See all my reviews

This review is from: Aroma ARC720G 10-cup Rice Cooker with Glass Lid (Kitchen)

Rice cookers must follow the same "money factor" rules that telephones do. To a certain point, the more money you pay for a telephone, the better quality you get. I think the same holds true for rice cookers.

The Aroma ARC720G 10-cup rice cooker was on the low end of the price point scale, and it showed in the completely inadequate operation of the unit. Perhaps if I had aimed for a higher-priced model I would have had more luck. I wanted the 10-cup capacity and was happy this unit had such as a feature. Unfortunately the unit didn't work. Ever.

The rice burned each and every time I used it. At first I thought it was me using the unit improperly, so I tried each suggestion by the manufacturer (rice rinsing, oiling the pan, preheating the rice, whathaveyou) and not a single one of them worked. Then I thought the unit was defective so I returned it to the store and got another one. Same problem. I repeated this again with no luck and that that point I decided that the unit was simply poorly designed and poorly constructed.

If you want to steam vegetables and custard, fine, but maybe you'd be better off with a vegetable steamer designed specifically for that purpose. They're about the same price or cheaper, but at least the cheaper ones won't set off the smoke detectors in your house like this unit does during "normal operation."

In general, this is a poor product, with crummy operation. I think you would be better off saving some money by buying a more expensive unit. You'll end up paying more for this unit in gas hauling it back to the store like I did.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Burned the rice everytime!, June 2, 2000

By 

Richard Quarles "Rich Quarles" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Aroma ARC720G 10-cup Rice Cooker with Glass Lid (Kitchen)

A huge disappointment. It burned the rice every time we used it. A defective model? Maybe, but we'll return it and try another brand.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Aroma has lost a customer, January 5, 2001

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Sheryl Woo (Vienna, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Aroma ARC720G 10-cup Rice Cooker with Glass Lid (Kitchen)

I bought this model for my daughter to take to college. She was delighted to receive it, however after about 6 uses, it no longer worked. It's very disappointing when a gift breaks after so little use. I wouldn't buy anything from this manufacturer again.