Best Sale 🤩 Aroma Housewares Select Stainless Rice Cooker & Warmer With Uncoated Inner Pot, 6-Cup(cooked) / 1.4Qt, ARC-753SG, Whit 😀

3 reviews for Best Sale 🤩 Aroma Housewares Select Stainless Rice Cooker & Warmer With Uncoated Inner Pot, 6-Cup(cooked) / 1.4Qt, ARC-753SG, Whit 😀

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   Jérémie L. – November 18, 2019

   I have been using rice cookers for 15 years, both to cook rice and grains. Here is what I have learned:- Lesson 1: As a millennial, I don’t have the attention span to cook rice/grains on the stove without something terrible happening. Rice-cookers main feature is that they “know” the cooking time, and switch to “warm” when needed. (Does not mean you can leave a rice-cooker on warming for hours, but means you can get caught in deep thought with no dire consequences.)- Lesson 2: There is no reason to buy a rice-cooker that is more than $50. Indeed, the convenience of a rice-cooker comes in large part from being able to toss it in the dishwasher. More expensive (and producing better tasting rice) devices are just not worth the hassle in my opinion.- Lesson 3: Most cheap rice cookers either use an aluminum or teflon-coated pot. No matter the convenience for anti-stick purposes, there is good evidence that suggests that neither material is ideal to store food. In particular, if ever you use something a bit acidic (like tomato juice, or lemon juice) in the pot, it can exacerbate the amount of aluminum that leeches into your food.After years of using a cheap Continental rice-cooker I bought when I first moved here (see it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000KEJQEC), it broke one day, and I finally decided to do something about the worrisome aluminum pot.You would not believe how impossible it is to find a rice-cooker that meets all the above criteria: Essentially, when you are looking for non-Teflon/non-aluminum alternatives, you get a LOT of weird products: From “ceramic coating” (which is just a buzz word), to “steel” that isn’t steel, it is very difficult to find something that is inert.This product fulfills absolutely all the marks. I was very concerned by the claims that the “plating” comes off.First, that has not been my experience—I have used this rice-cooker about a dozen times now, and there have been no issues. It is worth remarking that there are DIFFERENT kinds of stainless steel. This is advertised as being in 304 stainless steel: This is an austenitic stainless steel, which is not magnetic (magnets won’t stick to it and that is normal), that is very heat resistant, but will have a sensibility to prolonged exposure to SALT. Perhaps reviewers who had trouble with the plating left salt water in the pot.Second, it is worth noting that this device is both sold from Amazon.com but also from a multitude of third-party sellers. It seems like a lucrative scam to sell a $40 stainless steel rice cooker, with some cheaper pot. If you pay attention, you will notice that all rice-cookers of this kind look VERY similar, down to the specific moldings and components used.I included some photos:- The first one shows my pot in use, cooking 1 cup of quinoa in 2 cups of water.- The second shows the quinoa as it is being removed from the pot—not that I used olive oil to avoid sticking.- The third picture shows the difference between my previous Continental rice-cooker (lid with triangular grip) and the Aroma rice-cooker (lid with rectangular hold). You will notice that the diameter of the air duct is twice the size. This is why this device is slightly more prone to “sputtering”.- The fourth picture shows the weird corrosion of a typical aluminum pot, here from my Continental rice-cooker. This is what I was hoping to avoid by buying a model with a stainless steel pot.Here are a few tips for using this:- First, pick a model for 2.5x the largest amount you intend to cook. I never put more than 2 cups of grain in my 6 cup rice-cooker, and I *never* have any problem with sputtering. (Two things that affect sputtering are the amount of rice + liquid in the pot; and also how much starch is in the liquid, that is, you can also rinse your grain as suggested in these reviews).- Second, rub a paper towel with a bit of olive oil inside the pan, before you pour the grain and liquid. It may feel confusing to add a bit of oil before pouring liquid, but the oil adheres to the pot, and ensures a clean removal of the cooked grain (see photo for evidence).Overall, I am very, very happy with this rice-cooker. I am glad I did not let a few worrisome reviews discourage me from giving it a try. I am also happy a few reviewers went ahead and posted positive reviews about this product to help me make my choice.—Please, if you have found this review useful, consider marking it as “Helpful.” Amazon is great when you get to see reviews from actual shoppers—as opposed to paid writers and fake bots—and posting photos of the products and marking each other’s actual reviews as “Helpful” is part of the way we help make sure reviews remain useful. Thanks! — JL

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   Elle O. – July 29, 2022

   Note – this is a Four and Half Star review, but Amazon doesn’t let me give those. The reason for the half star deduction is the paddle (see below). Here’s the 4.5 star bit:I am not an “appliance” person, but there are a few things that make sense: electric tea kettle; waffle maker; blender; toaster; stand mixer. After that, meh. Or so I thought.It’s really hot here right now, and so cooking is not appealing, but I wanted rice. What I didn’t want is a rice cooker that was huge or would heat up the kitchen or had non-stick, etc. So I didn’t think I wanted a rice cooker at all, because they all had some or all of those downsides, right?Well, not this one. Here are its big upsides:–stainless insert with the core at the bottom to transmit heat.–well-rinsed rice means very little bubbling (I put a folded piece of paper towel in front, just in case)–a little oil around the sides and no sticking–doesn’t heat up the kitchen–it’s small and cute and all metaloh, and also–great rice–versatile (like soup and noodles! and spaghetti!)–perfect for one or two peopleI can highly recommend this one. I had one 8 or so years ago, but non-stick liner started peeling, kinda large, and I just never replaced it. This is one of the few appliances I need or recommend, but do yourself a favor, especially if you cook for one or two, and get this one. It’s perfect. My only regret is that I got it in white.The reason for the half-star deduction:My ONLY criticism of it is that the photos show a bamboo rice paddle is included, but the rice paddle I got is a plastic one, something I’ll never use with food, and like we need one more plastic thing on this earth. It’s disappointing because I was happy to get a rice paddle that would store with the rice cooker, and I just hate being sold one thing and getting another. But in the mix of it, the paddle is only worth a half star off.Fix that Aroma people, and you get a five star.

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   Rated 4 out of 5

   Marie – November 4, 2022

   I made sticky rice in the 6 cup aroma rice cooker and it came out perfect. I almost didn’t buy it because several reviews, except for one, said it didn’t work for the sticky rice. But the texture came out perfect-not too wet or dry. I rinsed the rice well for about 2 minutes. Then I used the measurements stated on the bag of sticky rice-1/2 cup rice to 3/4 cup water. I didn’t pay attention to how long it took to cook, but it didn’t seem any longer than if I had made it in a pot on the stove. There was one layer of rice left stuck on on the bottom of the pot so I filled it with hot water and a little Dawn, let it soak for not too long, and the rice came off easily. I love this rice cooker!