Hi - My name is Lonnie and I LOVE my rice
cooker. It is an Aroma Rice Cooker Model ARC-150SB and it will
make from 2 to 20 cups of perfectly cooked rice. Rice is the
primary starch in my diet so this rice cooker is a real help to
me.
I first started making rice using a pan on the stove. It
would always boil over and make a terrible mess. I hated
it! I finally bought a cheap rice cooker and that solved
the mess problem but it created new problems. The rice always
had a hard semi-burned brown crust on the bottom and the pan was
hard to clean. I went through three of these cheap rice cookers
over the years and knew that there had to be a better way but
didn't want to spend a fortune to find it. The answer finally
came when my last cheapie rice cooker died and I needed to find
a replacement that would make more rice at a time.
Two cups of
cooked rice is about the right amount for me for two servings. If
I don't eat it all in one day then I just put the rice into a
Zip-lock bag and it goes into the refrigerator. It keeps just
fine for up to a week. The rice tends to clump together in the
refrigerator but by "massaging" it in the bag it
breaks apart quite nicely. If I need to keep cooked rice longer
than one week I mark the date on the bag and put it into the
freezer. I sometimes make 6 cups of rice just so that I can have
leftover rice that I can microwave for a quick fix.
For about a year I have been helping prepare church
dinners (we serve a meal to the homeless and needy every Friday
night) and it was a struggle to make any rice based dish with
just a small rice cooker. I looked on Amazon and found a rice
cooker that looked like it would make both small amounts of rice
for me as well as large batches when needed for the church
dinners. It has very good reviews and definitely deserves
them! It is the Aroma Rice Cooker Model ARC-150SB and it
makes from 2 to 20 cups of rice. Perfect for my needs and under
$40. I bought one a year ago and have been using it ever since.
I never get a hard brown crust on the bottom and the pan is
really easy to clean up since it is Teflon coated. Even if you
don't plan to make large batches of rice I would still recommend
the Aroma Rice Cooker Model ARC-150SB to you because of the
great job that it does in cooking both white rice and brown
rice. It also has a delay timer that can be set for up to a 15
hour delay. Set it in the morning and have fresh rice to go with
your evening meal. As an added bonus it can also be used as a
steamer or as a slow cooker - what a versatile cooking appliance
!
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How to use: I don't use the measuring cup that came with
the rice cooker but rather just use a 16 oz. plastic drinking glass. I
measure one glass of rice and put it into the pan. I then add
the same amount of water plus another half glass of water. It
really doesn't matter what you use to measure as long as you
keep the ratio 1 part rice to 1 1/2 parts water (for white
rice). Some people say to use 1 part rice to 2 parts water
but then the rice comes out too mushy for my liking. Brown rice
needs to cook longer so you should use 1 part rice to 2 parts
water. Plug in the rice cooker and push the the on - off button
at the upper right side of the control panel. It takes a second
or so for the rice cooker to "wake up". Then push
either the "White Rice" or the "Brown Rice"
button. The "Cooking" light will come on. Small
batches of white rice seem to take about 35 minutes and brown
rice takes about an hour. Larger amounts of rice
will take longer to cook. When the sensor in the
middle bottom of the rice cooker senses the temperature rise
that indicates that the water has all been converted into steam
the rice cooker goes into a "Keep Warm" mode and the
rice cooker will beep to tell you that the rice is ready. I
seldom use the "Keep Warm" feature as I generally
unplug the rice cooker right away as soon as it is done cooking.
You can then open it up and fluff the rice. Be sure to use a
non-metal tool to do this as you don't want to scratch the
non-stick coating. The rice cooker comes with a plastic paddle
that works well.
I highly recommend this rice cooker to
you ! ! !
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