Aroma ARC-7315G 15-Cup Rice Cooker & Food Steamer
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: AromaBrand: Aroma
Model: ARC-7315G
Color: White
Product features:
- Perfectly prepares 4 to 30 cups of cooked rice (2 to 30 cups uncooked)
- Simple, one-touch operation switches to keep-warm mode automatically when finished
- Makes delicious soups and stews
- Inner cooking pot removes for easy cleanup
- Easy-view tempered glass lid
Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Aroma ARC-7315G 15-Cup Rice Cooker & Food Steamer
Customer Review: RiceMaster DrudgeryReductionSeries#001 TheMostUsefulRiceCooker
Summary: 5 Stars
Aroma ARC-7315G 15-Cup Pot Style Rice Cooker and Food Steamer
http://www.amazon.com/Aroma-ARC-7315G-15-Cup-Cooker-Steamer/dp/B002CIAJKE
Assumption: Cup refers to Aroma-cup (~160 ml)
Your search for rice related knowledge has come to fruition. After reading this review your Rice-Life will become Nice-Life.
Aroma ARC-7315G is a very good rice cooker at least when it comes to performance. It cooks 15-Aroma-cups (15*160ml) of uncooked rice. How much should you cook? 1-Aroma-cup level-filled yields 500kCal. So, if your goal is to strive for 2000kCal/day you'll need 4 cups. For one meal for one adult I recommend 1 cup. Rest should come from other nutrients. It cooks in about 45 minutes. 30 to cook; 15 keep it warm; then eat. One touch operation. Use it.
Verdict: Must have for rice-eaters. Buy it. One of the highest value-for-money.
+++++Cheap
++++Quality
+++++Electronics/Temperature profile
+++++Durable. Served 2000+ cycles
+++++Easy to clean*
+++++One touch
++++Audible click to warm mode
++++600W 30 min cooking
+++No non-stick coating
--Aluminum pot - tougher to clean
-30 min cooking; not as fast as pressure cooking
Need: Why do we need rice cooker? To cook great rice with relative ease. How about effortless cooking and perfect rice?
TypicalUse: Rinse pot. Wipe. Add rice. Add water. Plug in. Turn on. Rice ready - after 45 min.
BetterUse: Fill pot with water upto 3-Cup mark. Use distilled water if you don't want to clean the pot. Place the steel stand or a paper towel at the bottom of the pot. Put a china-bowl (Fiesta-ware-like) on the stand. Add rice & water to the bowl. Volumetrically keep Rice:Water::1:1.5. Do yourself a favor and buy a measuring cup (glass- Anchor / plastic- OXO). Or roughly, 1-Aroma-cup Rice to 1-Standard -cup water. Close the lid and turn on the rice-cooker. Note that in this set-up you are keeping the rice in a smaller bowl that may be sufficient for two or four people. This bowl goes into the rice-cooker pot. Rice never touches the aluminum pot. So, no cleaning! After about 30-45 minutes (Rosle Digital Kitchen Timer - turn-wheel-timer) turn off the rice cooker manually. If you forget, after about an hour after when all the water evaporates, it will go to warm mode. No damage done. With a couple of tries, you can change the rice to water ratio. After four to five tries, you should find the quantity
of water to be used outside the bowl in the bigger pot so that all the water evaporates in 30-35 minutes i.e. by the time rice becomes ready. Then let it stay in the warm mode for 15 minutes (or turn it off and let it sit for 15 minutes) and then... Enjoy it!!
Note that - adding less water is not a problem because the steam will hydrate the rice fully.
Why let it sit? Differential re-absorption across the rice-depth and homogeneous distribution of diffused steam helps make rice "fluffy".
Use a clay pot for Vita-clay effect. (Even better with a clay-lid for inner bowl.) Use a china bowl for easy cleaning. Use a plastic bowl if you have nothing else. While selecting china bowl... guess with your touch... is it sticky, smooth, abrasive, rough etc... pick the most non-sticky or smooth feeling bowl. This method exploits the steaming technique in a mistake-free rice-cooker.
Remember: Longer the wavelength of heat radiation, tastier the food.
(Hence, junk your microwave based on taste alone.)
Therefore, this double wall steaming produces better results than Induction rice-cookers or Vita-clay rice-cookers. If you cannot afford this rice-cooker, use a big pot (not really a stock pot; or may be even a stock pot); fill with water; put rice-bowl in it and make it on stove-top.
Alternatives: Panasonic Non-stick/Aluminum rice-cookers, Helen Chen Perfect rice-cooker, Vita-clay rice-cooker, Induction rice-cookers like Panasonic SR-MS102, Sanyo ECJ-HC55S and Zojirushi NP-HBC10
CheapAlternative: Your existing big pot + nicely fitting lid + a smaller easy-to-clean bowl in which you'll make rice. Temperature ramp up to high / 100C in five minutes; Keep at medium / 98-95C for 30 minutes; turn off - let sit for 15 min. If Y axis is temperature and X axis is time then, +/-10-15% vertical and +/-25-30% horizontal magnification of temperature profile will still yield next to ideal rice.
Remember: There is no bad rice cooker. There are only good or better rice cookers. Buy Black & Decker or other brand that "Boils too quickly" employ this bowl-in-pot method and enjoy the perfect rice.
HigherEndAlternative: Zojirushi NP-HBC10 - Unlike weight & temperature sensors in traditional rice cookers; induction rice cookers can sense resistivity of the media at any instance. This provides additional and better criteria for heating at any instance. I disagree with the term Fuzzy-Logic in the sense it is used these days. It should be like this... if your logic is fuzzy, use our cooker. (Because it has clear logic.) The programming logic of these advanced induction cookers is so much accurate(simple and straight-forward) that it's ironic that they get sold as fuzzy-logic.
When does NP-HBC10 really do a very good job?
When you are addicted to add too much water.
When does NP-HBC10 do "as much good a job as it can', but not very well?
When you are addicted to adding too little water. If you can add right quantity of water (just buy a measuring cup); you don't need induction cooker. If you add too little water - use this bowl-in-pot method.
Remember: Always buy this big rice-cooker even for one person... because believe me... this bowl-in-pot will reduce a lot of drudgery in the long run.
Special note for Indians: The toughest toor-dal can also be prepared in this fashion in 55-65 minutes. I use two rice cookers. One for Rice, one for Dal.
Special note for Non-Indians: If you have not eaten simple toor-dal prepared like this... you are missing something really good. (For toor-dal add thrice as much water, salt, 0.25 g turmeric and 2-5 g of butter. Crush / churn to make thick consistent fluid or granular dal with ample liquid. Add salsa if you'd like. Learn something called "tadaka" for best taste.
Try it!!
BestAlternative: Zojirushi NP-HBC10 (but cleaning will be clumsier than china-bowl-cleaning)
LogicalAlternative: Panasonic Non-stick/Aluminum rice-cookers
OnTheScaleOf: Out of 100, If Zojirushi NP-HBC10 gets 98, Panasonic Non-stick rice-cooker gets 95, Arom gets 90 (-10 for lack of non-stick); Aroma or any rice-cooker + Clay bowl-in-pot gets 100; Aroma or any rice-cooker + China bowl-in-pot gets 99 (-1 for taste); Helen Chen Perfect rice-cooker gets 97; Pressure cookers: even Zojirushi or WMF gets 95.
Notes:
Basamati/Jasmine/Arborio/Shirakiku or varied mixtures of those are good.
All of the above are available in dehusked/brown/sweet/polished.
Addition of lime juice, saffaron, cardamom, clove, nutmeg or others makes it better.
(Choose one. Or two. Not more.)
Addition of soups, vege-juices, lentils, beans or toor-dal makes it a complete meal.
About pressure cooker: With steam that is realesed; goes away half the flavor. Best for low-quality rice.
Absorption cooking: Directly in the rice-cooker: best for higher-end (high quality) rice with a lot of flavor; pot cleaning is a hassle though.
Steaming/Bowl-in-pot cooking: Best for low/medium quality rice. Good for high quality rice but some loss of flavor occurs although not significant compared to a pressure cooker.
Cleaning is only as tough as cleaning the china bowl.
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Description of Aroma ARC-7315G 15-Cup Rice Cooker & Food Steamer
Aroma has mastered the art of cooking rice, so you don't have to! This rice cooker from Aroma cooks up to 30 cups of moist rice and automatically keeps it warm for hours with just the touch of a button leaving you free to work in the kitchen. Cook more than rice with this versatile appliance prepare soup, stew, gumbo, jambalaya and more. You can easily monitor cooking through the tempered glass lid without releasing moisture, for rice that's cooked to fluffy perfection! And the inner cooking pot removes for easy cleanup. Includes steam rack, measuring cup and serving spatula.Small Appliances
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