AROMAHousewares 60-Cup (Cooked) (30-Cup UNCOOKED) Commercial Rice Cooker (ARC-1033E),White

We bought for cooking enough rice when making boudin. All the rice was cooked with none still hard. Saved us time.

It’s big and does the job.

This my second buy I buy this for my friend on she love it

This rice cooker is huge! I love it!! I have to make my mastiffs meals (he is allergic to most of the stuff in dog food), and prefer to make it 2 weeks of meals at a time. I need 42 cups of cooked brown rice for this. I have to do 2 batches because i decided if I make food for one dog, I'm making it for the other 5 as well. 2 of them can't have rice, so I make one full cooker for 3 of them, one for the Mastiff. The reason I only left a 4 star review is because it boils up and out of the cooker every time. Only a problem if I'm not paying much attention to it. As long as I catch it before it overflows, I can avert the mess. I could likely correct that issue by cooking less rice at one time but it already takes me all day to make their food. Appears to be a quality product.

We use our rice pot to cook many different meals. This size is great if you’re having friends or family over. My wife even makes gumbo in ours. Ease of use and price makes it a must have if you use your rice pot for more than just rice.

The media could not be loaded. We tried this rice cooker 3 times, and it has never yet worked as intended. We use it infrequently for our monthly social to cook large amounts of basmati rice, which is expensive. So we only discovered the issue after the return window. Our goal was to start cooking a couple hours before the start of the social and keep it warm. The manual says that white rice takes up to 50 minutes and brown rice takes up to 75 minutes, and so we thought that was more than enough time.1. The first time, it cooked for 3 hours before it switched to warm, which wasn't in time for the social, and we had to throw away the cooked rice since it completed late and we had to purchase rice from a restaurant instead.2. The second time, the green light seemed to refuse to turn on, but it seemed to be heating up as the water had tiny bubbles (as when dissolved air begins to come out). We just ended up with water-soaked rice.3. The third time, we used a spoon to press in the green button and it turned on, but it stayed cooking for 7.5 hours (we left it cooking to test) without switching to warm. The rice was partially boiled but it was hard-grained. It was still wet and uncooked.All in all, we've ended up with a lot of wasted rice. Attached is a video from our frustrated social coordinator. Note that while she's demonstrating that the cooking button is not working with no rice in there, in all cases above, we had lots of rice and the recommended amount of water in the cooker. We would really like to get a full refund or get it replaced with a functioning cooker.

Excellent basic cooker, without paying for the higher end non-stick bowl / digital features. For those folks who say they get burnt rice, learn to make rice with a rice cooker! Add the proper amount of water! Minimum is 15 cups of uncooked rice to be used for this unit, don’t use less than that or you’ll get over cooked/burnt rice. Here’s a quick tip from myself who’s been cooking rice since I was 8 years old (that’s almost 40 years of making rice almost every night, that’s close to 12,000 times of rice making!): Rinse the rice 3-4 times before use, until water is pretty clear. Soak the rice for 15mins to soften the kernels, each field harvest of rice is different so some need no soaking other times, you’ll need to soak, you need to see for yourself. Cook the rice in the cooker. Once rice cooker is “done”, LEAVE it in the cooker for 15mins to firm up. Do not touch the lid, leave it for the 15mins. Then using the supplied spatula mix the rice carefully by “folding” the rice (the objective is to go slow, so you don’t break the grains of rice too much) from the outer rims to the center and then from the middle/bottom to the top. Then you put the lid back on & let it sit in the warm setting for another 15mins before it’s ready to serve. I’ve been cooking Chinese long grain, Japanese short grain, California Calrose this method with no problem spanning dozen of rice cookers. Oh yes, taught by many Chinese chefs & Japanese sushi chefs, the rule of thumb I follow is never to use the full capacity of a rice cooker or you’ll get unmanageable rice (90% of max. capacity). So with a 60-cups cooker I never will use more than 55 cups. I’ve cooked for myself to cooking rice for hundreds of commmunity volunteers so I know what I’m talking about.

I really like this 60 cup rice cooker. You can cook as little as 10 cups or 20, 30, 40, 50, 60. Just a tip read the instruction manual just because you have used a rice cooker before you should not assume that everything will be the same. When you cook large amounts somethings may differ. Like they recommend waiting 20 after the cook light switch to warm for the rice to complete its cooking cycle.I usually cook 30 cups every Monday and store it in smart spin containers. I eat it all week and start over again. I have learned to make rice many different ways and I save soooooo much money and time. I used to use a little rice cooker and I had to wash it and use it day after day. Now with this rice cooker I can cook and clean my food for a week in under 1 hour.As another reviewer stated the top edge is sharp so you should be careful. I have also used this to make pasta based on another reviewers remarks. You must watch over it while it cooks and have the lid cracked properly or it will boil over. The instructions say only to use this cooker for making rice so I am only mentioning what I have done with good success. You should exercise caution if you decide to use it in ways that go against recommendations of the manufacturer.I like this rice cooker so much I am considering buying a backup to put in storage in case this one should ever fail and they are not being made anymore.My quick rice recipe1 dash pepper2 table spoons olive oil1/2 cup diced ham1/4 cup diced green olives1/4 cup diced cheese (your choice)4 cups cooked ricestir and serveGoodluck,Matthew