Yum AsiaSakura Rice Cooker with Ceramic Bowl and Advanced Fuzzy Logic (8 cup, 1.5 litre) 6 Rice Cook Functions, 6 Multicook Functions, Motouch LED Display, 220-240V UK/EU Power (Black and Silver)

Great little machine. It does what it says and is fast, produces perfect rice and is so easy to clean. Very happy.

I'm so glad I purchased this. It was such a good investment and my partner uses it to make lots of East Asian food. We've so far used it to slow cook, steam, cook rice and one pot rice meals (with inclusions such as chicken and vegetables) and it's all come out great. The keep warm function is a godsend when my partner is making lots of Onigiri as its easier to mould/shape rice when warm. The delay function is helpful, but just a heads up the timer is when you want your food to finish cooking, not when it starts to cook! The only thing my partner finds mildly annoying is if they're resting their left hand on the rice cooker and scooping out some rice for onigiri, they accidentally keep touching the cancel button. Otherwise a great all rounder and versatile product.

I held off on buying a rice cooker - after all, how hard can it be - its just rice and we all use a saucepan with a bit of faffing around whilst we are making the meal - right ?Having had the cooker for a year and a half now, I wish I'd got one sooner. Its dead easy to use and makes it more relaxing to prepare the rest of the meal, since you set it and forget it, it does everything for you.Add several cups of rice with the measuring cup, we do 3 cups for 4 people and that leaves a takeaway containers worth to turn into fried rice for lunch the next day too. Simply rinse the rice 3 times, stirring with a wooden spoon or your hands, take your time on this, give it a couple of minutes each time. When the rice is clean, drain all the rinsing water out, then add the same number of cups of water as you did rice - for Jasmin rice or Sushi rice. Add an extra 3/4 of a cup for Basmati rice. Be precise on your measurements, it makes the rice turn out fluffier.Then, just put it into the rice cooker, select rice, choose the type of rice - long or short grain, hit start and off you go, Now just forget about rice and get on with the main meal. It will take about 25 minutes to do its thing, so plenty of time to do your prep. The great thing though is that you can completely forget about rice until you are ready to serve as it will simply keep it warm once its cooked.The rice just needs a little fluff up with the provided spoon and you are good to go, lift the bowl out and take it straight to the table.The only minor negatives and observations are :1. Cleaning, there is a small clear tray at the back, where the handle goes down, there is a pop off black cover on the top and inside the unit is a removable perforated lid. All 3 of these need regular cleaning, the back one most frequently as it fills up with water. The removable lid and inside lid get cleaned about 1 in 4 times the back one since rice paper starts to form. Its all simple to do and only takes a minute or two with a damp cloth, but its easy to forget once you've eaten.2. Don't forget to turn it off. You need to remember to hit the cancel button to turn it off when you remove the rice bowl, otherwise it stays on.3. Auto power-on after a power cut. This is slightly annoying, but it only wakes up, it doesn't start trying to cook anything.4. The user interface is capacitive touch, so there is no feedback on any of the buttons, you have to hold over some of the buttons to make it do its thing, for example, start and cancel. Others such as the menu buttons are instant response. When first getting started with the unit, this feels wrong as there is no feedback to your actions. The flip side of this though is that its really simple to wipe the exterior clean.Over all, this is a fantastic unit with plenty of capacity, we use it regularly, around once or twice a week. We have not tried some of the other modes such as steam cooking vegetables or making porridge or cake. My wife refers to it as the crash helmet, since its styling makes it looks a little like a motorcycle helmet

We chose this because our rice cooker broke and because it’s featured on many you tube cooking streamers and we can see why it is their preferred rice cooker etc. we love that it is multi functional, rice cooker, slow cooker, soup maker with lots of features and settings. It’s easy to use and easy to clean, the food doesn’t stick to the inner dish and it washes easily with warm soapy water. We save a lot of space because it is multi functional. I would recommend this product. We have started cooking a whole lot more and making delicious Japanese and Korean food and eating much healthier.

*easy to use*easy to clean*perfect rice every time

I didn’t need another rice cooker – I already had a basic one that did the job. But I kept seeing people on Instagram using these fancier ones to make proper meals, and since I’ve got fatigue and struggle to eat regularly, I thought I’d try something that might make cooking easier.So far, it’s doing the job. I’ve made plain rice (came out great), turned the leftovers into egg fried rice, and did a one-pot meal with broccoli and salmon that actually tasted decent and took hardly any effort. Haven’t tried the multicooker functions yet, but I will. Still need to compare it properly to my slow cooker and Instant Pot.I also tried porridge. First attempt – disaster. I didn’t read the instructions properly, added milk at the start, and it boiled over. Nightmare to clean. Second go – cooked it with water, stirred milk in after, and it was perfect. Nicer than slow cooker porridge, weirdly.The main downside (and why I knocked a star off): the lid. You can only remove the inner bit, not the whole thing. After my porridge incident, cleaning around the fixed outer lid was a total faff. A removable full lid would’ve made life a lot easier.The manual is also a bit pants – ended up on YouTube to figure things out. But once you’ve got the basics down, it’s easy enough to use.Yes, it’s expensive, but if it keeps helping me make low-effort meals and lasts a few years, I’ll consider it money well spent.