Product Description

The Aroma 10-cup (uncooked) 20-cup (cooked) digital rice cooker food steamer is truly a meal making powerhouse. Not only does it make perfect rice and steam delicious meats and vegetables, but it also features a programmable slow cook function. Set it to slow cook up to 10 hours for an amazingly tender roast. Surprise the family with a delicious jambalaya that takes just minute to prepare. Steam chicken and broccoli while cooking brown rice for an easy, healthy meal in one pot. The meal making options are nearly endless. The easy-to-use digital controls include specialized white and brown rice functions, programmable steam, programmable slow cook and keep-warm and a 15-hour delay timer. When the cooking is done, the nonstick inner pot removes for quick and easy cleaning. Measuring cup, steam tray and serving spatula included.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #208 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Aroma
• Model: ARC-150SB
• Released on: 2011-05-26
• Dimensions: 10.83" h x 11.22" w x 10.83" l, 5.00 pounds

Features

• Perfectly prepares 4 to 20 cups of cooked rice and automatically keeps it warm for hours
• Easy-to-use digital controls for white rice, brown rice, programmable steam and keep-warm
• Steams meat and vegetables while simultaneously cooking rice for healthy, one-pot meals
• 15-hour delay timer is perfect for flexible meal planning
• Nonstick inner cooking pot removes for quick cleanup in the dishwasher

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Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

61 of 68 people found the following review helpful.
Great Rice Cooker! (Soak brown rice first!)
By Paul F
We bought this rice cooker from a store whose name rhymes with "Halmart". Thinking that we knew how to cook rice, we loaded it up and fired away, only to get a tremendous mess of starchy goop that flooded the top of the unit and flowed down the side, collecting underneath. (It stinks and the stink gets worse if you forget that it's there...) [UPDATE: You can place the rice cooker on a large Corelle dish to catch goopy overflow. It's a close size-match.)

After reading reviews for other Aroma rice cookers here on Amazon, I discovered that soaking the rice fixes everything. And very fortunately, this unit comes with a delay timer. Just load the cooker with rice and water (measured, of course), press "Delay Timer" for the number of hours you'd like to delay (the number is the number of hours when the rice will be finished), and choose "white rice" or "brown rice" (brown rice was giving us the most mess). I've set the timer as little as 2 hours, and the mess is eliminated even then. I believe that more delay is better. I've set it as long as 12 hours. I don't know the maximum number of hours you can delay.

CONS for this rice cooker: there's a plastic valve inside the lid that needs to be cleaned often, and the underside of the lid needs to be cleaned as well. It doesn't detach, so you'll have to scrub with a wet paper towel.

I haven't tried to steam anything yet (fish, veggies).

Bottom line: I recommend this product.

117 of 135 people found the following review helpful.
Want some chemicals with your rice?
By ZP
As far as the cheaper rice cookers go, this one is pretty much everywhere. I was happy with it for maybe 6 months, then two things happened. One's a minor nuisance, the other is the major concern that made me ditch it:

1) It started burning the rice. Keep in mind, I had been using it normally for a few months and knew how to operate it....I just had to start measuring the time myself, knowing that if I didn't stop it at a certain interval, the rice would burn. So mine went bad quickly, but that doesn't mean the product itself is lousy - maybe it was a one-off case.

2) The larger concern was that every time I dried it with a towel or cloth, this horrendous black chemical coating would come off. Every time. After 3 months, after six months, after a year, that black stuff was rubbing off A LOT after every single wash. Of course, if it comes off there, it comes off in the food. I asked myself if I really wanted to be slowly poisoning myself with s ome toxic made-in-China chemical garbage. Nope....I'll shell out the bigger bucks for the Zojirushi or whatever it's called. Look, this is a lower-end rice cooker in terms of its pricing, so maybe it's unfair to expect it to not be built this way because of economics. But even if there's a .01% chance it'll contribute to some kind of health problem for me in the future, this is not a place where I want to save money.

PS (Update)> After doing A LOT of research, I found that while Zojirushi is excellent, it still carries a kind of Teflon coating. In theory, it won't be bad for you unless it reaches a certain very high temperature, but I didn't want to take my chances (e.g., it can start to flake off with the years, and there's a lot of medical research on the issues it can cause). I was left with very few options...there are some clay pot rice cookers, but the reviews of the product are abysmal and it has other problems. In the end, I settled for a Panasonic model that has a binchotan coating, which is basically a kind of carbon with diamond fluoride coating. Apparently, chefs prize that kindof material because it helps improve texture/taste. Good stuff!

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
Surprisingly good rice cooker with some extra features not mentioned in the description
By beachlover
It's probably a little bigger than what I had expected or needed, but who knows when you might actually need 20 cups of rice. It also had a couple of nice features that I didn't expect. There's a steam condensate catcher on the back of the unit so that when you open the lid, it doesn't all run down the back of the unit. It detaches easily for cleaning. Also, mine came with a rice paddle so don't bother purchasing an extra one because it's included. The cord was fairly long... about 4 feet so that helps with versatility in appliance placement. The first batch of rice I made was a brown, red, and long grain wild rice mix. It probably could have used just a touch extra water or perhaps I over filled the rice measurement cup. The brown and red rice were perfect but the long grain wild rice could have used an extra few minutes or some extra water. Probably a pitfall of mixing different types of rice and not a shortcoming of the machine. The only drawback that I saw w as that the "steaming" tray was made of plastic. I would have hoped they would make it out of metal like the main rice compartment but I'm more of a grill fan than a steamer fan so I probably won't use it anyway. All in all, pretty happy with the unit so far. Pretty much agree with the other positive reviews. The negative review about the capacity is a strange one. It yields up to 20 cups of cooked rice from 10 cups of dry rice... hope that clears up any confusion. Enjoy and happy rice making!