With the included Steam Tray you can steam al your healthy vegetables and meats when your rice cooks below.

If you need your rice quickly you can speed it up with the Quick Rice function. It can save 50% of your time.

Or if you need your rice much later on the day, simply use the 15-hour Delay Timer.

All accessories and the inner pot are easy to remove and even easier to clean!

If you are on a tight budget and are looking for a great mid-sized rice cooker for both indoor and outdoor usage, then the Aroma ARC-2000SB Professional Digital Rice Cooker is one you should consider.

Hailed as arguably the best rice cooker, this rice cooker is the perfect definition of a quality functional rice cooker.

So, what makes the Aroma ARC-2000SB Professional Digital Rice Cooker stand out? Which features make it beat the other cookers in the same category?

Well, to understand why the Aroma ARC-2000SB Professional Digital Rice Cooker is hailed as arguably the best rice cooker to some, we tested it and the following is our review of the Aroma ARC-2000SB Professional Digital Rice Cooker;

This review entails a detailed look at the various aspects of the cooker ranging from its functionality, its design, safety and a brief look at the notable pros and cons. We keep the reviews as objective as possible to enable you to get a good overview of the product.

Here is our review of the Aroma ARC-2000SB Professional Digital Rice Cooker;

Design and Features of the Aroma ARC-2000SB Professional Digital Rice Cooker

As the experts in this industry put it, a good rice cooker should not only be able to consistently produce good batches of meals, it should be pleasing to the eye, carry substantial amounts of rice and not occupy too much space.

If what the experts say is anything to go by, then the Aroma ARC-2000SB Professional Digital Rice Cooker is the perfect definition of a good rice cooker. Not only is its design impressive, but it’s also appealing to the eye and occupies such a small space despite the fact that it can carry 20 cups of cooked rice.

In designing the Aroma ARC-2000SB Professional Digital Rice Cooker, Aroma Housewares ensured that it didn’t lose any functionality or aesthetic appeal. It has a sleek cylindrical design with a silver stainless exterior and durable plastic black top and bottom lid.

The stainless steel exterior not only gives this cooker a shiny long lasting look, but it is also essential in retaining the warmth of the food even after the cooker has been unplugged. The plastic lid is pretty easy to open and tighten, thanks to the ergonomic handle at the top of the lid.

Features

Any rice cooker is as good as its microcontroller. The brain of the rice cooker dictates the functionality of the cooker, its ease of use and its cooking capabilities.

The Aroma ARC-2000SB Professional Digital Rice Cooker’s brain features an easy to use programmable digital control unit, mounted on the side of the cooker for easy access and usage.

The programmable controls come with an array of functions and give you the ability to switch between the options. The controls include an option for white rice, brown rice, smart steam, quick rice, sauté-then-simmer, keep warm and the delay timer option.

The sauté-then-simmer, quick rice, and smart steam options have particularly proved very popular among those who have purchased the cooker.

Aroma’s sauté-then-simmer option lets you cook brown foods or rice quickly by heating the food to very high temperature and once any liquid is added, the cooker automatically switches to simmer which helps in not only saving time but helps to retain the flavor and improve the texture of the resulting food.

The smart steam option lets you steam vegetables and meats on the provided steam tray, as rice or any other food cooks below. This smart steam option not only lets you save time by doing two things at a go, but it also yields very healthy veggies and meats.

When done right the veggies and meats will not lose their natural taste and they will be very tender at the end of the smart steaming session.

The final innovative option which people have fallen in love with is the quick rice option. This is an option that will cut the cooking time of any type of rice by more than half.

Thanks to Aroma’s technology, the cooker switches up the temperature in the cooker when you select this option without charring the food or resulting in some undercooked parts. In a little over 10 minutes, you’ll have ready, properly cooked rice which the whole family will savor.

The other options: brown rice, white rice and keep warm are pretty much universal in modern-day cookers and they will make your cooking a lot easier. The keep warm option is particularly helpful as it ensures that your food doesn’t get cold long after the cooker has finished cooking.

The cooker will automatically switch from the cooking option to the keep warm one and you don’t have to worry about food burning. These are the small things that made us fall in love with the Aroma ARC-2000SB Professional Digital Rice Cooker.

Capacity and dimensions

The capacity and dimensions of a rice cooker play a very vital role when it comes to influencing the decision of buyers. When buying a cooker, you want something that is compact enough but carries sufficient food to satisfy your family’s needs.

You don’t want a rice cooker that occupies much space but does not carry enough rice to serve everyone around the table.

The Aroma ARC-2000SB Professional Digital Rice Cooker perfectly cooks anything from 4 to 20 cups of any kind of white or brown rice. It can comfortably be used to serve rice for a family of 4 or 5.

Despite its impressive capacity, the Aroma ARC-2000SB Professional Digital Rice Cooker is not the biggest in size.

The cooker is designed in a manner such that the interior pot takes a lion’s share of the available space while the other components take up very little space. This makes it very compact and ideal for both kitchen and outdoor use.

To add to its compactness, the Aroma ARC-2000SB Professional Digital Rice Cooker is very light in weight. At just 7.3 pounds, it is lighter than most of the cookers capable of carrying up to 20 cups of cooked rice.

This means that you won’t have a hard time carrying the cooker around the house, or moving it from your car to the picnic spot.

Safety

For a product to be certified and declared safe for use by the relevant industry regulatory body, it has to pass all the set standards without fail.

Aroma is renowned for producing appliances which pay a lot of attention to safety and the Aroma ARC-2000SB Professional Digital Rice Cooker is no exception.

You can leave the cooker in your kitchen without worrying about it leaking rice or any of its contents while cooking. The airtight lid ensures that all the contents of the pot together with the steam remain in the pot and this reduces the chances of accidents around the kitchen.

Pros and Cons of the Aroma ARC-2000SB Professional Digital Rice Cooker

Verdict

Having reviewed many rice cookers, we can conclude that this is up there with some of the best high capacity cookers that we have come across. Not only does it get the job done in an efficient way, but you are also assured of a superb forthcoming rice pot.

Purchase this rice cooker today and open up the world of possibilities in the world of rice cooking. This cooker will change your perspective about rice cooking and will make you fall in love with the dreaded job of preparing the family a meal of great rice.

With little bucks out of the pocket, you will be elevating your cooking skills from a novice to a master revered in preparing anything to do with rice. (You can check our recipes for that here).

The Aroma ARC-2000SB Professional Digital Rice Cooker is an Aroma product definitely worth your consideration.

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