AROMA Professional Rice Cooker with Purple Clay Cooking Pot 6-Cup Uncooked 12-Cup Cooked Healthy Grain Multicooker Natural Ceramic

The media could not be loaded. I love my purple clay rice cooker! I have more freedom with my time. I go to work to come home to a nice slow-cooked soup. It makes the most delicious rice and I’m a picky eater. I’m very specific about my rice texture. I wrote on a previous review that the rice burns and sticks to the bottom. I now revise that it’s reasonably non-stick naturally. I’ve had this for a year now and absolutely love it! The material is more fragile than others, but the pros outweigh the cons. By common sense any type of clay or glass can break. These people who say it’s too fragile are used to having metal pots in their rice cookers. This is a legendary material with a long cultural history. When anyone receives this they must keep in mind that they’re not buying an ordinary rice cooker. They’re buying something much more profoundly deep that’s considered very precious in its country of origin. This is something some people can only dream of having. People must be treated with respect. The clay is good quality. To be honest, I have made one tiny dent in it too over the year I’ve had it. That one incident was because I wasn’t paying attention to what I was doing. I really regret that moment. For that reason, I don’t recommend this to people who have never made rice before. The pot is heavy, but it also cools down quickly. Also, water dries off quickly as according to the nature of purple clay. I love the thousand year history of purple clay pots and always wanted one. The price is very good considering the value I am getting for what I pay for. I don’t believe it is 100% purple clay because purple clay is protected. Either way, that doesn’t take away from the value of what you’re paying for. Some authentic purple clay tea pots sell for thousands and thousands of US dollars. By law they can only take out a very small amount of it from Chinese soil. The Chinese consider this so precious that they enforce a law on extracting it from the land. It’s found only in one small select region of the entire world. Very rare and beautiful. Read more

The flavor was better from the very first cook. The texture of rice was excellent. The clay pot surprised me that it didn’t stick. It’s a good way to keep foods warm longer being clay and having a lid. It’s a nice pot and looks good on the table. Cleans up easy. This will last a long time if you take care of it and don’t drop it. Just remember not to soak longer than 5 minutes. That’s a key factor and to let it cool before washing. It seems smaller but holds more than you think. It’s worth every penny and then some. I’ve used aroma rice pots for years and I didn’t think you could improve much on the quality. At least not enough to justify the price on more expensive rice cookers. But I was wrong. This baby improved the texture a lot and the flavor is incredible. I haven’t notice any unusual odor from the clay pot but I haven’t had it long and I’ve only cooked rice in it. I always add a tsp to a tbsp of oil or butter per cup of dry rice to my pot depending on what I’m making and that may be the reason there hasn’t been an issue with sticking. Read more

I bought the new Aroma Purple Clay Pot Rice Cooker to replace an older teflon-coated rice cooker. I am avoiding teflon cooking surfaces because the health risks. The older cooker had been scratched up significantly. So I decided to try this. It did a fine job cooking white basmati rice on its maiden voyage. I think it might have taken longer to cook than the old model. I do like the clay pot. It is nice piece of pottery. And it's not any more difficult to clean than the teflon non-stick pot of the old rice cooker. But... the rice cooker sits inside an enclosed cooker. Very attractive. And there is a push button that unlatches the lid. But on first use the button proceeded to explode across the room with an over-powerful spring. I tried to reassemble it with the spring, and it just exploded again. Eventually, I figured out it doesn't need the super powerful spring at all. And it all stays held together fine. Also in unpacking this brand new unit I discovered it had been manufactured several years ago. Which just seems a little strange. It came with coupons for $1 off some Mahatma or Carolina brand rice that expired in 2022. Read more

Stopped working after about 10 uses. Read more

Pros -Works really well, makes tasty rice similar to rice in clay pots from korean bbq restaurants -does not product too much steam compared to induction pressure rice cooker. i had a cuckoo induction rice cooker and that one steamed our entire kitchen, way too hot to use it during summer -not many complicated pieces. the old cuckoo induction pressure rice cooker had many components to clean and maintain Cons -can't leave the warm function on for longer than 2 hours otherwise, rice will burn and stick , similar to clay pots in korean bbq restaurants. so need to turn off before this happens -pot has no chemicals, no plastic (housing is plastic however) -pot is heavier, more fragile, can break, versus a metal or stainless steel pot I highly recommend this to anyone that wants to minimize plastic use in their cooking. price is very fair versus the pressure induction rice cookers. Read more