Aroma 3 Quart or 4-20 Cups Rice Cooker & Food Steamer with Sensor Logic Technology - Recipe Book Included

Great value!!
We got this rice cooker from Costco for $30 and let me tell you it is the best $30 I have ever spent. In fact I would have paid a $100 or more for this cooker. We've only had it for 2 months and use it almost daily. It makes perfect rice every time. There are seperate functions for brown and white rice. However I find the brown rice still comes out pretty darn good in the white rice mode. A definate improvment from other cookers we had that would leave the brown rice hard and crunchy.
I read some reviews of this cooker burning rice if left in the warm mode too long. The longest we've left it to warm was 5hrs and we didn't have any problems. Maybe if we left it longer it might have burned, but who knows.

Aroma rice cooker, model #ARC-2000
Bought this at Costco for around $30 and they still have them. We cook rice a lot and this cooker is by far the best we have ever owned in THIS price range. For those of us who can't afford a Zojirushi (look it up, Amazon sells them)this one can do a few things well that their same-price-range counterparts can't do. (warming longer, brown rice, slow cook...)

I have not had the need to use the slow-cooking method because I don't even use the 3 slow cookers that are sitting in the pantry looking for a good home. I have a new electric pressure cooker that does the job beautifully. I might try to make a soup just to see how well it works.

Pros:

Brown rice: Perfect every time - Jasmine Brown rice aroma wafting through now.
White Rice: Perfect every time - Long grain and short grain
Steaming: Perfect every time - from frozen pork buns to deliciously fresh in minutes. Fish, frozen vegetables, etc... all of them perfect.

Cons:...

everything but the chicken stock
I had sticker shock when I first saw this product but fell in LOVE and use it at least once a week. I swore by my old rice cooker/steamer and even had a separate crock pot, but when my old rice cooker died-I decided to UPGRADE-and boy did I ever!

I toss all the ingredients in the night before, set the timer and when I wake up for work (which is way too early these days), ta-da like magic everything is ready. This makes mornings a lot easier and meals healthier-no more excuses to eat cafeteria or fast food mystery meat. My only little wish is if it if came with a lid that worked for the metal container inside so I quickly stick the left overs in the fridge.

So get over the sticker shock and fall in love with Aroma's best kept all in one secret-it pays for itself-and the 20 minutes I get to sleep in.

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