Aroma 8-Cup (Cooked) ARC-914 SBD Digital Rice Cooker and Food Steamer – good cooker for not big households, couples or bacholors. It is easy-to-use, compact, multifunctional and useful.
This appliance will be perfect for those who want to cook awesome useful dishes at home with no trouble. It cooks rice, steams vegetables with meat and even jambalaya, chili as well as soup. It’s “intellectual” dream of any not big household.
The Touch of a Button
This phrase can be perfect description of this appliance. It has 6 functional programmed buttons. Even a child can cook Restaurant-quality rice with Aroma. You should only pour some water to the tank, add rice or other product according to the program and press relevant button. You needn’t to stir or pour additional water. That’s all you need to prepare delicious food.
You can choose necessary programmable digital control:
1. White rice.
2. Brown rice.
3. Steam.
4. Keep warm.
5. Delay timer.
Intellectual computerized program detects how much rice you are cooking, the best temperature and time for cooking. Also this machine chooses the most suitable temperature for keeping ready dish warm. It’s really easy to use. Press the button and you are free. You can read favorable book, do some pleasure thing or some housework.
Cooker’s capacity
Difference between quantity uncooked and ready-to-eat rice is evident. Usually the capacity of rice cookers depends on the rice cups. But sometimes manufacturer means cups of ready-to-eat rice and sometimes means cups with cooked dish. So the customers can be confusing about their choice.
This rice cooker Aroma 8-Cup (Cooked) Digital Rice Cooker and Food Steamer is ideal machine for small families, couples or bachelors because its capacity is about 8 cooked cups of rice.
Construction of the rice cooker
This model has detachable lids, removable steam tray and non-stick inner coking pan. The digital Cooked comes with serving plastic spatula and measuring cup for rice. All accessories of the cooker Aroma Rice Cooker are dishwashable.
Measurements
This machine is compact and had not big footprint. Product dimensions are 8.5 x 9.3 x 8.7 inches. The weigh of cooker is 4.2 pounds.
Price
Aroma 8-Cup (Cooked) ARC-914 SBD Digital Rice Cooker and Food Steamer is a low-cost model that suitable for families with simple rice and steaming needs.
Pros and Cons
It’s obviously that positive features outweigh the negative about Aroma 8-Cup (Cooked) Digital Rice Cooker and Food Steamer. This model is very good advertised but it isn’t vain.
Pros
1. Removable inner cooking bowl.
2. Detachable inner lid.
3. Easy cleaning.
4. Additional steam tray.
5. Steam mode.
6. 15 hours delay timer for people on the go.
7. Simultaneous cooking rice and steaming vegetables with meat.
8. Build-in handle.
9. Compact measurements.
10. Small Footprint.
11. Useful appliance features.
12. Good variety of dishes to prepare.
13. Adjusting temperature and cooking time.
14. Understandable instructions.
15. Best appropriate price for little rice cooker.
Cons
2. Confusing capacity of cooked rice. Instead of claimed 8 cups we get only 6 eight ounce cups. Many owners were very disappointed about that.
3. Lack of handle on the inner bowl. Just right after finishing cooking time this pan is very hot and it’s very problematically to pull it out the rice cooker.
4. Some users complain of faulty inner lid. The say it doesn’t seal perfectly and some liquid spits out. But most likely it was isolated case.
Overall Verdict
Aroma 8-Cup (Cooked) Digital Rice Cooker and Food Steamer is great compact machine. It suits for even very little kitchen and for every design. This rice cooker also is a useful steamer. It can cook without your attention, can keep ready dish warm and delay the cooking up to 15 hours. It’s your Master Chef at home!
