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)

This just makes cooking rice so much easier.No longer do I have sticky rice. Very easy to make perfect rice.I’ve even made a rice pudding in this which turned out well

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

I honestly wasn't expecting to be this impressed!! This rice cooker is amazing performance like no other. It's like a steamer for rice, makes it all fluffy and delicious. I bought this after my rice cooker broke and I'm glad it did because it was drying out the rice every time. If you are thinking about buying this product don't think just buy !! It will be money well spent. And it's not just for rice !! I bought the large one which costs more but cookes a LOT of rice. It looks rice super fast with count down indicator, easy to clean , hot rice which keeps walm after it's cooked. Its so easy to use which is great because i don't read instructions 😆 if you want sticky rice just move the rice around whith the spoon it comes with before the cooking time is complete. Going to buy my mum one for the birthday!!

You don’t have to soak the rice or set the timer. The rice cooker does all the guess work. You measure the rice with the cup provided, add water up to the fill line, then switch on. The rice is perfectly cooked through and not soggy. The grains are separate. You can steam veg and meat at the same time if you want to. I am very pleased with this purchase.

I needed to upgrade my old rice cooker that was previously donated to me by my neighbour (I never used one before) and I came across the Yum Asia Sakura and I’m so glad I did.I’ve used it quite a few times now and it’s produced the most perfect fluffy rice every time. I’ve cooked Indian, Chinese and just normal plain rice and I’ve loved every mouthful.Highly recommended, you won’t regret it, I don’t!*Edit: developed fault so having to return. Luckily it was just before the return window closed so sending back and ordering replacement

At first my partner was against Rice cookers but when this rice cooker got delivered my partner soon got it out of the box and all set up and now tries to use it as much as possible (most nights).There is loads of different settings and also tells you how long is left on it as well, it is really simple to use and clean, it also comes with thorough instructions on how to use it.I would highly recommend this brand to any one they never fail to deliver a decent product