Aroma Rice Cooker

For me 4cups of rice and 6 cups of water used to work well.Only thing was that the rice used to get stick at the bottom.My cooker stopped working after some time.

Hi Nandhu,

Did the rice come out well in the Aroma rice cooker?

What proportion worked out?

Cheers
Krithika

Thanks for asking krithika :)

I do this:

2 cups of rice - 6 cups of water [ my friend told me that one batch of raw rice in stores, I stocked up before the price hike... was new(?)- puthu arisi, pazhaiyaa arisi difference in water usage it seems.. and that this being new one needs more water, she said.. so tried it and it seems to work as expected]
But I check the rice after 25 mins so that I change to warm else it starts sticking at the bottom

Hi Nandhu,

I am a bit surprised..cos usually pudhu (new) rice requires less water and gets cooked sooner. When more water is added for pudhu arisi, it becomes too soft & mushy.

But for pazha (old) rice , more water & more time is required (this rice is preferred by many ).

Probably, what you have got is pazhava arisi , since you have mentioned it requires 6 cups of water for 2 cups rice.

To reduce the sticking at the bottom, as soon as the rice is cooked, unplug it..cos when kept in warm mode, the rice starts sticking more.

Cheers
Krithika

Originally Posted by Nandshyam

Hey Guys,

I recently purchased this aroma rice cooker as my panasonic was getting very old.. Now I am having problems with the rice:water ration. For panasonic, I add 1 cup extra than the usual we do for pressure cooker. I used to get that.. soft "pola pola" rice.. But if I try the same with Aroma.. I get hard ones... "verai verai" rice.. and it sucks to have them with sambhar :(

Pleas help.................

Sorry to hear that the Aroma rice cooker is not working out for you. I have been using it for the past one year and it works perfectly fine... The trick is to keep the lid closed until serving time... If the vapours leave the container, the rice becomes verai verai as you mentioned.

Another tip is to switch off the cooker as soon as you hear the done whistle. The food stays HOT for three to four hours without keeping it in the warm mode.

Also, I use sona masuri rice and the proportion is 1 cup rice to three cups water. It works absolutely fine.