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Aroma Housewares 20 Cup Cooked (10 cup uncooked) Digital Rice Cooker, Slow Cooker, Food Steamer, SS Exterior (ARC-150SB),Black
| Brand | Aroma Housewares |
| Capacity | 5 Quarts |
| Product Dimensions | 0.39"D x 11.25"W x 10.75"H |
| Power Source | Corded Electric |
| Product Care Instructions | Hand Wash |
About this item
- Multi-functional use: whether you are in the mood for a hearty jambalaya, steamed veggies and rice, or even a fluffy cake. You can accomplish it all with Your rice cooker. The possibilities are as creative as you are.
- Nutritious & Delicious – The built-in Steam function allows for nutrient-rich meals to be prepared above while rice, soup, or any other meal simultaneously cooks below, allowing you to save time without sacrificing quality.
- Slow Cook Function – This multicooker not only includes all of your favorite cooking options like cooking rice and grains, but also possesses the Slow Cook function that allows meals to simmer low and slow.
- User-Friendly Programming – This product is a proud member of our “set it and forget it” mentality. It's incredibly simple to operate using our user-friendly digital panel that switches to Keep Warm mode automatically once cooking is finished.
- XL Capacity – 20-cup capacity yielding 4 to 20 cups of cooked rice. Its large capacity can house small individual meals, prepare sizeable family meals, and is also great for entertaining!
- Accessories – Includes a nonstick inner pot made of extra durable bonded granite, rice measuring cup, and serving spatula. Power consumption: 120V/60Hz 860W
- NEW UPGRADE!! – 8x Bonded Granite nonstick inner pot that is more durable than ceramic and traditional inner pots, has a completely toxin free makeup and is dishwasher safe
- Item Shape: Round
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Healthy One Pot MealsThe built-in steamer function allows for nutrient-rich meals to be prepared above when rice, soup, or any other meal addition cooks below, allowing you to save time without sacrificing quality. |
Cooks Any GrainEnjoy perfectly cooked brown or white rice, quinoa, bulgur, farro and more at the press of a button. |
Delicious & NutritiousEasy-to-use, programmable digital controls with automatic Keep Warm mode, White Rice, Brown Rice, Flash Rice, Steam, Slow Cook, Delay Timer functions |
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Delay Timer15-hour Delay Timer for flexible meal planning |
Slow Cook FunctionPerfect for delicious soups, stews, and more! |
Easy to CleanInner pot, serving spatula, rice measuring cup, and removable steam tray are all dishwasher safe. |
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| ARC-5000SB | ARC-914SBD | ARC-150SB | ARC-1120SBL | ARC-5200SB | |
| Model | Professional | Basic | Basic | Smart Carb | NEW model |
| Capacity | 20 Cups (cooked) | 8 Cups (cooked) | 20 Cups (cooked) | 20 Cups (cooked) | 20 Cups (cooked) |
| Steam | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Delay Timer | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Slow Cook | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Sauté-Then-Simmer Technology (STS) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Customer Rating | 4.7 out of 5 stars (23745) | 4.5 out of 5 stars (218) | 4.6 out of 5 stars (5982) | 4.5 out of 5 stars (56576) | 4.4 out of 5 stars (63) | 4.4 out of 5 stars (6236) |
| Price | From $64.99 | $46.95$46.95 | $37.07$37.07 | $29.98$29.98 | $39.99$39.99 | $34.99$34.99 |
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| Sold By | Available from these sellers | Amazon.com | Amazon Warehouse | Amazon.com | Amazon.com | Amazon.com |
| Color | Black | Silver | Stainless Steel | Silver | Gray | Black |
| Item Dimensions | 11.13 x 11.25 x 10.75 inches | 11.5 x 11.25 x 11 inches | 9.1 x 8.9 x 9.5 inches | 8.6 x 9.3 x 8.5 inches | — | 8.5 x 9.25 x 9.13 inches |
| Material | Aluminum | Aluminum | Plastic, Stainless Steel | Stainless Steel | Stainless Steel | Stainless Steel |
| Size | Dimensions: 10.83 x 11.22 x 10.83 (Length x Width x Height) | 10 -Cup Uncooked/20-Cup Cooked/5Qt. | 8-cup cooked/4-cup uncooked/2Qt. | 4 Cup Uncooked / 8 Cup Cooked | 4 Cup Uncooked / 8 Cup Cooked | 6 Cup Uncooked / 8 Cup Cooked, 2Qt. |
Product information
| Brand | Aroma Housewares |
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| Capacity | 5 Quarts |
| Product Dimensions | 0.39"D x 11.25"W x 10.75"H |
| Power Source | Corded Electric |
| Product Care Instructions | Hand Wash |
| Color | Black |
| Material | Aluminum |
| Item Weight | 6.15 Pounds |
| Wattage | 860 watts |
| Included Components | Stainless Steel Exterior (Arc-150Sb), Aroma 20-Cup (Cooked) (10-Cup Uncooked) Digital Rice Cooker And Food Steamer, Coupons For Mahatma And Carolina Rice., Measuring Cup, Rice Measuring Cup, Serving Spatula, Exclusive Recipes |
| Style | Basic |
| Voltage | 120 Volts |
| Model Name | Rice Cooker |
| Item Weight | 6.15 pounds |
| Manufacturer | Aroma Housewares |
| ASIN | B0055FSN0Y |
| Item model number | ARC-150SB |
| Customer Reviews |
4.7 out of 5 stars |
| Best Sellers Rank | #5,805 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining) #28 in Rice Cookers |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Date First Available | May 26, 2011 |
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UPDATE 2/13/2020-After 5 years of owning and operating Aromas I have discovered A NEW FEATURE OF THE AROMA!!!!!!! My spouse and I make all our own bread. I had tried the Yogurt button early on to get a quicker rise on my black bean burger buns, rolls, etc., but found the bread seemed to rise the same as if it was in the bread box. On my other appliances with a ferment feature I found they were also lacking in the quick rise department. So I found myself eyeing a fancy, foldable bread proofer. I started percolating. Was there something I overooked? How do I know the bread proofer could obtain a quicker rise for me? All of a sudden I realized---cue music-preferably the first few bars of The Knack's My Sharona with that bumping bass line---MY AROMA!!!!!!!---great ad campaign-looking forward-Ahhhhh, I placed my black bean burger buns in on the KEEP WARM setting, not the yogurt button. And wait---Not too long....PERFECT SUPER PERKY HIGH RISE BUNS-QUICK-much quicker than a ferment or a sit there in a bread box kind of rise. In fact they so far they are the best burger buns I have made. Note the average Aroma fits 5 homemade burger buns. Just add the ingredients, ask a nice bread machine to help with the work and shape the dough, then place in the Aroma on KEEP WARM and check in around 30 minutes to see how awesome the dough is. Hot tip-Remember to ad a little baking powder along with the yeast.-Julie Sands
I am a vegetarian and so is my spouse. We did not used to be and so I went about making taste a likes to many of the meals I was formerly used to eating. I have hundreds of my very own vegetarian recipes even replicating the taste of foie gras using organic cage free eggs, caviar, veal parmagiana (using bread dough that has been dried somewhat,) and others too numerous to mention in this article.
To encourage you to eat perfectly, (eating perfectly includes ethics,) I am letting you in on a VERY easy way to make delicious inexpensive vegetarian and or vegan soups in the Aroma that taste like they even have meat or fish in them though they do not.
You will need certain staples on hand in your kitchen to do this. First you need containers that you will use as soup starter jars. These can be any type of containers, even recycled margarine containers work to get you started. I used to use recycled pasta jars to store my homemade soymilk in before we were able to purchase mason jars and funnels that make things a lot easier. Just remember, do not go in debt buying supplies, etc.! Do not put it on a credit card. Get a little at a time instead no matter even if you drive a Ferrari and live in an eight bedroom mansion, I say drive because I ask is that Ferrari paid off? Do you even own it yet, or is it even leased?
A Foodsaver vacuum sealer, the larger model, not the hand held is fantastic for vacuum sealing soup starter jars to keep them fresh in wide mouth mason jars using the optional Foodsaver wide mouth mason jar attachment. Mason jar funnels are also helpful to have on hand. I recommend three as you will quickly find yourself vacuum sealing leftovers in jars, even leftover cake can be stored in half gallon wide mouth mason jars and vacuum sealed staying fresh in the refrigerator for months. A quick refresh in the microwave gives it that just came out of the oven taste.
If considering what Aroma model to purchase, I like the kind that also sauté simmer but I do NOT cook meat or fish, etc., in them so I do not feel guilty about using that function. I sauté things like Morningstar vegetarian soy patties, vegetarian soy strips (Morningstar bacon-tastes like bacon,) breaded dough that has been dried to make my tastes like veal parmagiana meal. I also sauté black bean burger patties and burger buns, vegetables, etc., etc. Since you will most likely eventually be using at least two Aromas at a time, one with soup, another with pasta sauce, another you are sautéing or steaming in, if you are not yet vegetarian I recommend getting one that steams and makes soup but does not have the sauté simmer function. Then when you are confident you will only sauté vegetarian or vegan buying another that does and adding and you have more ability to make more complex meals, such as a cup of fresh homemade soup with dinner if desired.
If you already have an Aroma with Saute-Simmer and were using the Aroma non-vegetarian I encourage you to begin to use it to make vegetarian meals. Same with the steamer function. If you start making soups you will see how easy this is and you will see it will be very easy and delightful.
Now, how to make these easy tasty soups? In addition to the soup starter jars make sure you have plenty of different varieties of canned beans on hand, canned tomato sauce and tomato paste. Have lots of spices like Italian Seasonings, Basil, salt, pepper, paprika, coriander, bay leaves, clove (just one or two added to a soup is usually enough if using these to give the soup a ham type of flavor without the ham,) parsley, poultry seasoning, etc. I also keep Sweet and Sour sauce, Plum Sauce, Soy Sauce, Rice Wine, Balsamic Vinegar, Old Bay Seasoning, Taco Seasoning, Shwarma seasoning, non-gmo Cajun Spices, Tony Chacheres Brown Gravy mix and other vegan seasonings as some of my vegetarian soup making staples.
Now for the fun part: During the week or weekend, whenever you cook, save any vegetarian leftovers in a soup jar. How do you do this if you are not yet cooking vegetarian? If you use vegetarian beans for example in a meal save the juice. If black beans were added put the black bean water that was in the can in a soup starter jar and vacuum seal it. If there is a small amount of leftover coffee in the pot you can even add that. Just fill up the jar, yes it will look different, a jar with coffee and bean juice and part of a cheese sandwich you did not finish made with vegetarian Tillamook Cheddar cheese. Did you steam spinach? Save the water from the spinach. It is a basis for vegetable soup stock. Have a mayonnaise jar that you are tired of scraping to get the last bit out? Put HOT water in the jar, shake it to mix up all that unused mayonnaise then store it in the fridge until you make soup, you will add the mayonnaise broth into the soup also. What about the salad dressing bottle that you thought was empty? It is not empty but still has delicious soup making spices, add HOT water, shake and a broth will emerge. Place it in the fridge it will help to make a delicious one of a kind vegetarian soup. Finished that small spice jar of pepper? Add hot water, shake and save for broth. Do this with all spices. You will be so excited to see what a savings this is. The money you did not spend on food save as a food fund. If you retire in thirty years, a food partition will be handy to supplement your grocery budget at that time. Maybe you will have $100,000 dollars or more in your food savings partition from not eating out and making inexpensive vegetarian soups on the weekends and putting away that money in a partition you set aside for food instead of spending it on something else.
Since I already eat only vegetarian I even often shake the crumbs from a leftover container into a soup jar. Even my sourdough bread starter I put in soup. When I change jars on my sourdough starter I fill the old one with some hot water and shake it. It goes into soup and makes it own flat matzoh type tasting pasta in the soup. Leftover bread crumbs, even cake crumbs go into my soups. Have leftover flat soda or beer or wine or vodka in a glass? Put it in a soup starter jar. Even those ice cubes that were in the soda can be put in a jar and help make broth.
I often like to have soup on the weekends, giving me a break from cooking and it also means less dishes. I open my refrigerator and gather my soup starter jars, usually there are around five or so and it makes a big batch of soup in my Aroma. If I need to add beans I throw some in. I then add around a tablespoon of salt to the Aroma. If there is no rice or grain in the jars I throw in some uncooked rice or barley or pasta, whatever I feel like. I cook it on high for two hours. I taste it and finish blending adding spices or even tomato sauce as needed. Often I do not add anything other than the salt, it is that good right away. If I have to blend it usually takes less than five minutes and no more than twenty to get a fantastic soup. If the soup tastes awful, DO NOT THROW IT OUT. Just adjust the spices-for example adding beans with bean water or tomato sauce or leftover spaghetti sauce and it will fix it. You will have delicious soup. You will learn to make a great soup quickly and easily. Have fun taking those leftover Sunday pancakes and making soup with them.
NOTES ON THIS MODEL AROMA: I am particularly impressed with the oatmeal button. I just put some extra virgin olive oil in the Aroma pan with a little salt, oatmeal and water and I do not even have to stir, I get perfect oatmeal. So wonderful as I use oatmeal in my bread making and also use oatmeal or rice as a vegetarian dog food base for my homemade dog food I feed to my dog. The oatmeal button is a fantastic help to me. To add fruit flavors it is as easy as adding some strawberry or blueberry jelly and chopped walnuts or other nuts are also flavor options. I began making my own jelly with my bread machine for environmental reasons a few years ago when I realized it cuts down on the number of containers my spouse and I use. I just refill my mason jars wit the homemade jelly. As far as the sushi rice button it works well but I was disappointed with the name. Instead of saying Sushi Rice it should be called Sticky Rice rather than sushi rice for ethical reasons as not to encourage the eating of fish. The quinoa button I have not tried yet but I am wondering if other grains could be cooked on that setting? I use a lot of barley, couscous, farro, frekkeh, grains such as that. The packaging was disappointing as it showed pictures of what appears to be fish or meat. My original Aroma, which has less functions but still can sauté never showed anything but vegetarian cooking pictures on the box and so that packaging was quite superior as it did not encourage non-vegetarian eating. I was expecting since this is a newer style Aroma with more functions the packaging would have been more improved by showing only vegan cooking pictures, being even more ethical than the former vegeatrian only packaging of my original Aroma purchased around 5 years ago. The Aroma is still my favorite brand of multi cooker and I look forward to them improving even more.
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:
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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.
Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2023
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:
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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.
RE: the new cooker. First the good
It has great controls, and is supposed to cook rice in a way to cut carbs. It does this via an inner basket that has a gazillion small holes. The idea is that the steam, that cooks the rice, will drain out taking some of the starch with it. Great idea.
And the not so good.
First, the manual suggests (correctly that you rinse your rice first to wash out some of the starch.) That's an extra step that shouldn't be necessary if the whole idea of the inner basket worked.
Second, using the white rice/carb setting and filling the inner basket to the lines indicated, left the rice almost done, but still crunchy (not cooked) Using the regular rice button worked fine to cook white rice.
In terms of the non-stick inner pot. That's only the main pot, not the carb smart insert. It's made of ?Stainless steel. The first batch of rice I made stuck to the bottom of the special carb insert. I had to soak it to get it clean. The second batch I made, I sprayed the bottom of the special insert with olive oil. That worked great to prevent sticking.
All in all this is a good product, but expect to experiment to get it working the way you want.
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Cómo advertencia, no se asusten por los tiempos que vienen en el manual en tiempo de cocción, he notado que es más rápido de lo que dice.
Construcción buena, fácil de limpiar, ahorra tiempo y es muy práctica, si tu bendición ya se fue a la universidad y quieres que coma sano, le facilitarias mucho la vida con una cosa de éstas.





























