Aroma® 20 Cup Dishwasher Safe Rice Cooker & Steamer

I received this rice cooker to make rice but I found out that it can do a lot more than just rice. When I opened it I saw a recipe book and a coupon for Mahatma rice. This Aroma Rice Cooker and Food Steamer is great for rice and makes from 4 to 20 cups of cooked rice. It is well constructed and BPA free. So, after cooking rice I made a simple recipe on the front of the box. It was really easy just mixed 2 cups of shredded cooked chicken, 2 - 15oz cans of chili beans, 1 cup frozen corn, and 1.5 cups of honey flavored BBQ sauce. Put the lid on and hit the cook button and when the warm light comes on it is done. Really easy... Great product! It easy to clean and wash and will fit any scenario your family has. I received this product from the Spark Reviewer program.

Perfect rice maker. Super easy to use. Has a measuring cup and spatula included. No extra tools need to make the perfect rice. It has the non stick inner pot that the rice just slips right out of when serving. I love the glass see through lid. Very nice looking when on your counter. It will even keep your rice warm after cooking.

This rice cooker is perfect for me. It makes a large enough amount of rice for a family of 4 while not being overly large on the countertop. The build quality impressed me for the price and it could not be easier to operate and clean. I am not sure what would convince someone that they need a more expensive rice cooker.

The Aroma Rice Cooker is a handy little appliance. I was a little skeptical about this rice cooker due to its low price point, but not after I used it for several meals. You can spend hundreds of dollars on a rice cooker, but you really don't need to with this item. It is light weight, has a non-stick inner pot, and comes with a steamer tray, measuring cup and rice spatula. This rice cooker does not come with temperature or timer controls, but for some magical reason, it knows when to shut the pot off for perfect rice. The instructions that come with this cooker, has a chart for various amounts of rice and suggestions for steamed vegetables. I especially liked cooking a small batch of chili in this and the cooker held what seemed like the exact cooking temperature during the entire process. Steaming vegetables does take a little longer time then cooking on the stove, or in the microwave, but the vegetables not only retain more vitamins, but keep their brilliant color. Since I live alone, this size of pot is perfect for me, especially with soups and stews, but a larger family would benefit from the capability to cook up to 10 cups of rice without having to keep an eye on the cooking process. The cooker will stop the cooking process and switch to keep warm automatically. I am really impressed with this rice cooker/steamer.

I received this Aroma 20-Cup Pot-Style Rice Cooker & Food Steamer in with in exchange of an honest review. I have a family of 6. My husband my two toddlers and my daughter who is 10 and my 12 year old son. So it's almost 3 adults in the family. With that being said you know i have to cook lots of food and well some are picky so i tried to cook diffent meals for us. A little bit of everything in it. The food that will always have on our table is beans and of course steam rice. My husband and I love rice my kids love steam broccoli and steam carrots. So on a busy day after work with my newAroma 20-Cup Pot-Style Rice Cooker & Food Steamer all I do is put about 2 cups of rice add up to 3 cuos of water and put in my inner steam tray either broccoli or asparagus or thin carrots. It saves me so much time. At ones I have all my veggies and rice ready to go. All i worried about is making my brans which does last 2 days good if kept on the refrigerator. Its super easy to used. All you do is plug it. My son whos 12 years old knows knows how to work it. This pot does come in the color white. Even though I'm pretty sure i seen a black pot . I honestly prefer white. Since the color white is a fancy color and it reminds me to make my steam rice. The lid is a glass lid. It comes with a little white spoon. Its made of the material aluminum. My favorite part of my Aroma 20-Cup Pot-Style Rice Cooker & Food Steamer in with is the inner steam tray. Compare to my old rice steamer this is a great size and I can steam my veggies at the same time. That's the best part about it. I have cooked in there more then just rice. On the bottom part where the rice goes i have cooked in there thin slices of chicken either with just salt and pepper and lemon paper and some spicy sauce. I have also cooked in there marinated chicken. I try to cook veggies according to what I'm cooking on the bottom part. For example when I cook chicken in my inner steam tray I will steam either small cut up corn or some broccoli and carrots. But when I cook rice I'll put some asparagus or green bean . Or some other faster cooking vegetables. I have honestly even cooked in there fish fillets. While my food is cooking I might be making something else on the oven or the stove. And of course we all know steamed rice is healthier. I love this Aroma 20-Cup Pot-Style Rice Cooker & Food Steamer so much. I don't regret it at all. I recommend this to every mommy who loves to cook and needs extra time . I've been thinking of buying myself another one. Maybe in one i can steam my marinated chicken with corn while the other pot can steam my rice with some fish fillets and broccoli or asparagus . I would have so much time left they might even get dessert made everyday. Maybe if they help with the dishes. I recommend this for everyone. For your wife mother anyone who loves cooking and saving time.

The very day I received this I was preparing rice for dinner so I was anxious to use the rice cooker. I followed the directions that came with the Aroma rice cooker, measuring the rice and water with the measuring cup provided and the water by the lines on the pot. I turned the cooker on using the one button and watched the red light. Then I stood by and waited. Twenty-two minutes later I stirred the rice with the spatula provided and the rice was fluffy and perfect. I then placed the cooker on warm until the rest of dinner was prepared. The cooker can prepare from 4-20 cups of raw rice. It has a non-stick surface and is easy to clean. The glass lid allows you to check on the contents without losing the heat. The steamer basket is an easy way to prepare vegatables guickly. I love this product and would recommend it.

The Aroma 20-Cup Pot-Style Rice Cooker & Food Steamer, White is a convenient and easy to use product that I recommend. Some pros and cons are: Pros: - It comes with all that you need (pot, pot cover with steam vent, steamer tray, measuring cup and mixing spatula). - A good size, light-weight, non-stick pot. The pot's water lines are clearly marked for ease of use. - Not much assembling required and when it is pulled apart for cleaning it can be easily fitted back together. - It has three feet to keep it off the surface it is being used on. I used it on a solid surface countertop, but a placed it on a silicone heat resistant pad just in case. - It is relatively easy to use as it literally only has to settings: Cook and Warm. - Clear manual instruction for white and brown rice among other recipes like steamed vegetables, chile, soup, fish, chicken etc, which again offers ease of use. But you can cook your rice the way you like. - The pot is non-stick, which is a definite plus because I would not want the trouble of cleaning a non-stick pot with a rice cooker. - Despite a slight challenge with the white rice cooking process (see cons), it did cook the rice well as it came out fluffy and was just right to the taste. Cons: - The steamer tray is plastic. I would have preferred a stainless steel tray. - The cook time (for white rice) stated in the manual is not consistent with the real-time cook time. I did 2 cups to line 2 in the pot, which according to the manual was supposed to take 18-23 minutes to cook. Well, it cooked long before 18 minutes and I did not realised that it had switched from cook to warm (I thought I heard a flick) - I think it switched from cook at about 10 minutes. This is an issue because the cooker is supposed to facilitate the convenience of not having to watch it. Despite it switching from cook to warm, which I only realised because I heard crackling when I went near it, the rice still was not properly cooked, so I had to add some more water to it, set it to cook again for another 6 minutes to get it to cook. I would not feel comfortable leaving this to cook on its own. - When rice is in Warm setting, it is basically being parched. I recommend taking the pot out of the steamer's hot plate or the bottom of your rice will become hard and parched. - The measuring cup is not a regular measuring cup, so users need to be mindful of this. It is 180 ml, which the manual states is approximately 3/4 of a regular measuring cup - I have not verified as yet.

Here is what I found using this Rice Cooker: 1. When following the instructions, white rice turns out sticky and wild rice turns out undercooked. Only brown rice cooks according to the instructions, for other rice you need to figure out how much water to put in via trial and error. 2. The product splashes out a huge amount of water and steam while cooking rice. I had to clean the surrounding of the cooker both times I cooked rice in this. It's pretty annoying. 3. The "keep warm" feature works well. I like that and I have had good luck with that portion of the cooker 4. if it didn't splash out so much water, it would be an excellent size. I usually serve rice with my stir fry meals and this makes an ample amount and I still have enough left over to chill for fried rice the next day. Bottom Line - the rice cooker is adequate for the job EXCEPT for that annoying leaking of water out the steam vent hole or the sides of the cooker.

i loved this rice cooker but then it started to not cook my rice all the way and now it wont turn on at all and my rice aint done. i will now have to buy another one from someone else. i havent even had this thing for but a few months. waste of my money. and it wont make 20 cups. more like 6.

I use this rice cooker, a half a dozen times, and the nonstick surface started to release from the bottom of the bowl, I contacted the manufacture, and they said it was normal wear and tear. I don't feel that using a rice cooker six times and having the nonstick surface release into your food is normal wear and tear, I only used the wooden spoon on this I strongly suggest you look for a different brand. This is not a company that stands behind their product even though they have a one-year warranty.