Thursday, December 26, 2013

Aroma Digital Rice Cooker and Food Steamer Review



Price Range: $29-$37

Discount: Save Money at Amazon

Features:
  • Non-stick Cooking Pot
  • Programmed Rice Cooking Settings
  • Easy Cleanup in Sink or Dishwasher  

Pros:

Have you ever cooked rice on the stove top? Oftentimes this is a messy and time consuming experience in order to prepare a food as simple as rice. With the Aroma Digital Rice Cooker and Food Steamer cooking rice is as simple as adding rice and water to the Aroma pot, hitting a button, and leaving the kitchen until the rice cooker beeps to announce the rice is fully cooked. Nothing could be more simple than leaving an uncooked bowl of rice on the kitchen counter in the Aroma Rice Cooker and returning in less than two hours to a steaming hot perfect bowl of rice or steamed vegetables.

Many think rice cooking is the simplest task in the world that should require nothing more than a stove top and a pot. However, the market for rice cookers is extremely diverse with a world of products. From the Zojirushi brand of rice cookers that retail for hundreds of dollars a piece to the old pan sitting around in everyone's kitchen, the options seem clouded and endless. With the Rice Cooker and Food Steamer by Aroma anyone can afford an electronic rice cooker due to the reasonable price offered. Sold on Amazon.com for less than $40, the price required for this rice cooker is more than made up within a few months of preparing rice for an evening meal instead of going out to eat.

More than just rice can be cooked in The Aroma Rice Cooker and Food Steamer. The product clearly allows for white rice, brown rice, and steam food option as shown by the preprogrammed buttons set to perfect these foods in each cooking. However, the limits of what can be cooked in the Aroma are only limited to the creativity of the cook in the kitchen. Oatmeal is prepared in a jiff by using the white rice function. Presoaked beans cook perfectly on the brown rice function. Vegetables including potatoes cook up well on the steaming rack. To cook even more potatoes for a fuller meal, boiling the potatoes on the white rice function yields tender potatoes ready to eat in less than an hour.

From 2 to 8 cups of rice can be cooked in this model, and learning the proportions of water to any amount of rice is easy. The tables below show the cooking times one could expect for rice and the water needed for the rice: 

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Clean up is simple with the aluminum non-stick pot used in the Aroma Rice Cooker. After finishing a meal, simply use a soapy sponge and hot water to wipe out any left over remains of the meal. Along with cleaning the inside of the pot, be sure to wipe off the steam protection lid after a meal as well.

Cons:

Occasional starchy overspilling is the greatest problem of the Rice Cooker and Steamer made by Aroma. This tends to happen if too much water is in the Aroma pot or if there is too much food trying to be cooked. By always measuring properly this can be corrected, and tends to never come up as the cook learns the in's and out's of the Aroma cooker. In order to not be bothered by a starchy mess, place a large plate underneath the rice cooker so that any spillover flows onto the plate and not onto the counter top.

Guarantee:


The Amazon A-Z Guarantee is the best guarantee in the market. In the event that the product is not delivered, delivered in a broken condition, or is not meeting the quality expectations of the buyer, the item may be returned to Amazon for a full refund. A 30 day window exists to file a claim to Amazon over any problem that may come up with the product. 

Aroma offers a two year warranty on the rice cooker in order to repair any damaged or broken portions of the rice cooker. Information on how to contact Aroma is provided in the instruction manual and can also be found online through Aroma's website. 

 
Value for money?

The Aroma Rice Cooker and Food Steamer is an absolute steal for anyone seeking to make rice at home or steam vegetables easily. No excuse can now be made for not eating healthy and homemade rice as the digital functionality for a set and forget option. As one of the lowest priced rice cookers in the market, the Aroma Rice Cooker and Food Steamer offers anyone just entering the slow cooker market an easy option for fantastic cooking results in small amounts of cooking time.

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