Aroma ARC-1266F 6-Cup Cool-Touch Rice Cooker and Food Steamer Review
Aroma ARC-1266F 6-Cup Cool-Touch Rice Cooker and Food Steamer
- Cool-touch 6-cup rice cooker prepares up to 12 cups of rice at a time
- Can also steam veggies while cooking rice or be used to make soups and stews
- Nonstick removable inner pot; water reservoir channels away excess moisture
- Keep-warm mode; measuring cup, steam tray, and serving spatula included
- Measures approximately 10-3/5 by 10-3/5 by 10-3/5 inches; 1-year limited warranty
This cool-touch rice cooker from Aroma makes perfect rice, soups, stews and even steams meat and vegetables simultaneously. It flawlessly prepares up to 12 cups of any type of rice and automatically keeps it at serving temperature until you’re ready to eat. Features a water reservoir that channels away excess condensation for rice that’s light and fluffy, every time. Includes measuring cup, steam tray and rice paddle.
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List Price: $ 29.99
Price: $ 27.99
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Review by C. Holmes for Aroma ARC-1266F 6-Cup Cool-Touch Rice Cooker and Food Steamer
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This thing works great, and it steams veggies at the same time!!!! Just read the instructions thoroughly. If you are cooking brown or wild rice the water measurements are different. Rice comes out fluffy and moist every time. And, it stays moist on the warm setting too. I had it in there staying warm for over an hour and you wouldn’t have known it, seriously. Buy this!
Review by K. D. Talley for Aroma ARC-1266F 6-Cup Cool-Touch Rice Cooker and Food Steamer
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Wanted to make some great sushi — and this pot turned out fabulous rice, couldn’t have been better for the task! Also, since getting this Aroma, I’ve done several one-dish dinners in it, steaming meat & veggies right with the rice. Its done a dynamite job — almost like having a cook in the house, finishing off dishes for me. Easy to clean, quick to store, and absolutely as represented — an inexpensive yet faithful piece of equipment with nice range of skills. Plus — you can cook — and transport — hot food in it to a potluck dinner, easily — and without getting burned. How’s that for the price?!!!
Review by dana for Aroma ARC-1266F 6-Cup Cool-Touch Rice Cooker and Food Steamer
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This is a really cheap rice cooker, so naturally it’s very simple and isn’t as versatile as the more expensive models. However, if all you’re interested in is the basic functionality, it does the job almost perfectly.
If you’ve ever used a rice cooker you probably already know everything there is to know about it, they all follow the same pattern. It’s got a non-stick pan, a warming function, a spoon and a cup and a steam tray. Basic stuff so i won’t go into that.
I’m not sure if there is any real difference in cooking times between different rice cookers (i would assume not since rice can only absorb water so quickly), but this does the job well. A cup or two of white rice takes 15 or 20 minutes to finish; if it’s brown rice it’ll be more like 30. It seems slightly faster than boiling, but not by much. (Definitely way more convenient though.)
Some things i did notice:
1. When you plug it in, it automatically goes into ‘cook’ mode, even if the lid is open and the button isn’t pressed. This is kind of annoying, i don’t understand why it does it.
2. As far as i can tell, you can’t just leave it plugged in all the time like a toaster. It’s always running as long as it’s got power, so when you’re done with it you have to unplug it. This is a minor irritation, because i’m lazy.
3. The manual comes with cooking directions, but in my experience so far they’ve been off. If i follow the manual’s instructions, my rice always comes out a too dry, kind of with a fried-rice consistency. This is especially the case with brown rice (which requires more liquid obviously). Their water measurements are just too conservative. But this of course depends on what kind of rice you’re using, whether you add any extra ingredients, and so on, so it’ll vary. You’ll figure it out after one or two attempts though.
If you’re interested in a rice cooker but you’re wondering if it’s worth it to get one, i’d definitely recommend it, especially since this one is so cheap. I myself had not personally owned a rice cooker before (although i was familiar with them), so i was sceptical about whether it’d get enough use out of it to justify the cost.
But i do! It’s much easier to make it in the rice cooker than it is on the stove; i can dump the rice in when i wake up, and go do what i need to do to get ready for work (without worrying about whether it’ll burn), and then shovel it all out right before i leave. I eat a lot more rice now than i did before.
Review by Tiger Tail for Aroma ARC-1266F 6-Cup Cool-Touch Rice Cooker and Food Steamer
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I bought the Aroma 6 cup Cool Touch Rice Maker to replace a Wolfgang Puck rice maker that spewed steam and rice water all over the counter while it was cooking. The Aroma makes good rice like the Wolfgang Puck rice maker, but water collects on the top of my Aroma rice cooker and has to be poured off during the cooking process. It is also much larger than the Puck rice cooker so you have to have ample cabinet space to store it. Other than that the Aroma 6 cup cool touch is a good rice cooker at a very reasonable price, especially with Amazon Prime.
Review by buyer for Aroma ARC-1266F 6-Cup Cool-Touch Rice Cooker and Food Steamer
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I’ve had a lot of rice cookers in my lifetime so far. It’s like buying a pot – they’re all basically the same and some are fancier than others. But it’s all the same. This makes great rice. period. and it’s a good price.