AROMA NRC-687SD-1SG vs Cuckoo CRP-G1015F

Upgraded my 10 y.o. rice cooker with non-stick coating with a shiny new stainless steel unit. After a couple sub par attempts to making typical white rice that is a staple of Hawaii and Asian cultures, the perfect rice/water ratio has been found

My husband actually ordered this for me - our old rice cooker still worked, but it was pretty beat up and I had lost the measuring cup, so my guesses on the rice to water ratio must've been off, because with this new cooker the rice is sooo much better! Light and fluffy for both white and brown rice! There's a couple functions I still need to try (I think it lets you reheat/cook old rice - and maybe even mixed in with new? - that will be awesome for re-using leftovers that had been stored in fridge for few days!) but it's easy to clean and I'm very satisfied as it is. I just need to get a Korean friend to translate what it's saying when the rice is done, she's sweetly saying something that's a little more elaborate than 'your rice is done' 😆

Aroma needs to change the cheap stainless steel to a higher quality. And people should consider demanding higher quality so that we can get out of this wasteful throw-away society that people with too much power for their own britches have created for us to endure. In the past, good kitchen appliances lasted generations, today you can hardly find a good appliance. Take your power back folks, and don't give it away to an expert to decide for you

Open box product came and there was a crack on the corner of the bottom on the rice cooker. Please do not buy this product.

The Brown rice setting never heats past a "barely warmer than tap water hot" , returned it in person to their main facility for a new one, that one too didn't work on the Brown Rice setting. We were too lazy to return it again, and since the Brown rice cooked fine on the white rice setting, we never re-returned it. But really, what's the point in having the two different settings if white rice setting cooks both? It is " Significantly" smaller than advertised. It's described in how many cups it makes, but the "cups" are not measurements ( like8oz cups) rather they are how many cups measured from their tiny little included " cup"

Worse experience with this brand! Just a little over a year and the cooker is no longer able to maintain its temperature. Rice goes bad the next day. We owned Tiger brand previously before switching to this brand and probably a big mistake. For the price of this machine ($219

The price is great - especially for the functions it provides and (BONUS!) the stainless steel cook pot. That, in itself, is worth the price! If you buy it, I think you'll be very happy with it. Happy cooking!

I checked out the Cuckoo US website & managed to get a bigger rice cooker for a cheaper price (they had a sale going on) compared to my dad who bought another model at an H Mart store.