Housewares Professional Plus ARC-5000SB 20 Cup (Cooked) Digital Rice Cooker, Food Steamer, Slow Cooker, Stainless Exterior/Nonstick Pot, Silver, Black, 10-cup uncooked/20-cup cooked/4QT

The Aroma Housewares ARC-5000SB Professional Plus multicooker is a very good multicooker. With that said, I've considered returning once and still may return. The reason I'm thinking about returning (no fault of the cooker) is the cooker is a little larger that I thought when I purchased it. I'm in the process of consolidating my countertop cookers. I have a rice cooker, a 1.5 quart slow cooker and a 3 quart slow cooker. All of these cookers are manual. I'm would like to ideally replace them with just one cooker as long as the cooker does an adequate job and fits well. When I bought this cooker, I was under the impression that this is a 4 quart cooker as that is what's listed by Amazon. But that's incorrect as this actually is a 5 quart cooker. So, it's a little large to sit on my counter top all the time. As for the cooker besides it size,, it has a logical layout of preset buttons. The ones I've use are brown rice, steam and slow cook. A main reason I bought this cooker is it has both a low and high setting on slow cook mode. I've tried two other cookers but each only had a single temperature setting. Once didn't slow cook hot enough and the other was too hot. It is nice to have a cooker that has both settings. The cooker includes an instruction booklet, a rice laddle, and a plastic steamer basket. The booklet is understandable (not broken English like in some). The rice laddle works fine. The steamer basket works well as for withstanding the heat but I did not notice the hole are a little large say if yo wish to steam older rice. Bits of rice might all through. Not too bad, but noticeable. A big disadvantage to this cooker (like so many) is the design of having a lid that doesn't detach for cleaning. The only part of the lid that detaches is the plastic vent underside the lide. This mean to clean the lid the popular way is the wipe down under the lid. I found that instead of wiping, I'd slowly have tilt the cooker about 90 degrees enough to put the lid under soapy water while taking care to not get any water in the cooking element. That approach works but is awkward to do. I was overall happy with the results of cooking with this multicooker. Brown rice turned out good (though not as good or fast as when I used a pressure cooker). The water markings on the inner pot were pretty much not readable so I had to add not referring to them. As a steamer, that turned out good too and it's nice to have preset 5,10, 15 minutes of steam time at a touch of a button. As a slow cooker, the cooker performed well in making spaghetti sauce started off first on low then changed to high for about the last two hours. Here is what I like and dislike of this multicooker: -------------------------------------------------------- Likes: - low and high settings in slow cook mode that performed well - efficient pre-programmed buttons to press - stain steel outer covering - does a good job cooking brown rice Dislikes: - non removeable, difficult to clean lid design - inner pot water markings not legible - inner pot not stainless steel - steamer basket not stainless steel There are some shortcomings to the multicooker. The biggest one is the non-removeable lid that make the lid difficult to clean. But that's not enough to penalize a star since (unfortunately) that seems the consensus of most multicookers. The cooker does a great job as a cooker handling different tasks. Though I may end up returning and looking for something that better fits size wise on my countertop, I give the Aroma Housewares ARC-5000SB Digital five stars.

I often cook Asian-influenced dishes, which are inevitably accompanied by rice. Until purchasing this product, I used to cook rice manually in a conventional pot, but found that it was all too easy to overdo it, resulting in burned or stuck rice at the bottom of the pot; it required a lot of watching and stirring to insure that it didn't go wrong. The logical alternative was a rice cooker. While there are many inexpensive rice cookers available here at Amazon as well as in the usual stores like Walmart or Target, I looked carefully at the reviews, hoping to find a rice cooker that I could apply to other foods as well. This one stood out, and I'm delighted with it. It couldn't be simpler to use. I just drop a measured amount of rice and water into the non-stick interior pot, and press a button. 20-25 minutes later, it beeps, and the rice is cooked perfectly... no need to stir or watch. I can keep my attention on the stir-fry that I'm cooking, knowing that when the rice is done, the pot will switch to a 'keep warm' mode. I've also made oatmeal in this pot, and it works just as well. In addition to rice and oatmeal, there are other settings for brown or sushi rice, steaming, etc. The non-stick inside pot is easy to clean.

My previous rice cooker was 30 years old and did not cook brown rice well. I invested in this cooker and am very pleased! My brown rice comes out perfect, as does white rice. The size is perfect for on the counter, or stored in a cabinet. The inner pot makes cleaning a breeze.

Very good—good quality and price.

Love my larger capacity rice cook. the Smaller 2-4 cup ones were a total mess. This cooks up to 10 cooks and doesn't get messy. Love the Quinoa setting too! I gave my large capacity rice cooker to my son for college and this replaced it. Soooo much easier to use and more reliable than the smaller 2-4 cup cookers!

If you don't have a rice cooker yet, wtf are you even doing? Making rice in a cauldron? What is this, 1965? I've had this for a few years already and I did not make rice myself before because making it in a cauldron is daunting and waste of time. It might sound silly, but the risk of over doing your rice in that cauldron is astronomical! It's also never perfect. Well, in a RICE COOKER, it's always perfect! You can also make SOUP, STEWS, so many stuff can be done in a rice cooker! There's lots and lots of recipes out there for you to enjoy cooking with your rice cooker! I find this one to be so simple to use, just push a damn button and go do something useful until the beep.

He cocinado carne en su jugo ya varias veces, cocción lenta 8 horas y queda maravillosa. Recomiendo su uso, es una olla de buena calidad y hasta ahorita funciona perfecta, también el arroz me ha quedado muy bien.

Ready so many reviews but was not about to spend 3 to $500 on the top rated Zojirushi models. This had a great review, it cooks my brown rice perfectly and has a steamer on top for veggies or meat. I am still learning all the things you can make in it. The main reason aside from the affordable price and great for brown rice, was that it also cooks pasta , eggs and yes even a cake. Don’t know if I will go that far. But I love cooking brown rice, barley, all healthy grains and the pasta for my husband. Very versatile, Relatively easy to use, easy to wash and a great deal for $70.00 Canadian.

Excelente arrocera, a mí siempre me ha gustado hacer sushi y platillos orientales como pokes (bowls) y yakimeshi. Siempre lo más difícil era hacer el arroz, más en una cacerola. Con la funcionalidad de hacer arroz de sushi de este bebé sale en menos de 30 minutos y calidad restaurante, ahora ceno sushi y bowls todos los días. Además de que lo puedes programas y una que otra bondad, también puedes hacer platillos al vapor (y yo que tengo gastritis) salen super bien y muy sanos. Limpiarla es muy sencillo, honestamente mi nivel de vida subió. Nota: Es una arrocera muy grande (en la imagen no se ve pero si es de buen tamaño), tiene una capacidad de 10 tazas de arroz, yo nunca uso la verdad más de 2, por lo que sí gustas compra una más pequeña si sólo es para una o dos personas, pero la marca es una maravilla.

Práctica y fácil de usar.