Yum Asia Bamboo Rice Cooker with Induction Heating (IH) and Ceramic Bowl (8 cup, 1.5 litre), 7 Rice Cooking Functions, 4 Multicooker Functions, Motouch LED Display, 220-240V

So, I took the plunge into Yum Asia's Bamboo Rice Cooker, and crikey, it's a kitchen rockstar! Total 5-star material right here.First off, using this thing is a piece of cake. The Motouch LED Display is like having a rice-cooking wizard at your fingertips. I mean, 7 rice cooking functions? 4 multicooker functions? It's basically the DJ Khaled of kitchen appliances - all it does is win!Cleaning? A doddle. The ceramic bowl pops right out, and the non-stick magic inside? Easy peasy cleanup. No more wrestling with stubborn rice bits - hallelujah!Now, the taste game. This combo of Induction Heating (IH) and Ceramic Bowl is like a tag team of flavour champions. The rice? Fluffy. The texture? Spot on. Compared to my old-school rice cooker, it's like trading up from black and white to HD colour.In a nutshell, this Yum Asia wonder is a 5-star MVP. If you're after a kitchen sidekick that's easy, tasty, and just darn awesome, this is the rice cooker you're looking for. Do yourself a flavour favour and snag one - you won't regret it! 🌟

Excellent rice cooker, looks beautiful and so it should be for the price. Easy to use and the build feels quality throughout. The accompanying instruction booklet is easy to follow and essential tomlearn the various cooking functions its also informative on different rice and cooking styles as well as suggesting some recipes.

I was skeptical of the GABA rice function, as I know this to take 3-21 hours to normally make the rice sprout, however, I am extremely impressed at the GABA function as it cooks brown rice into GABA in just 2.5-3hours! I can see little sprouts on my rice, and I was absolutely over the moon when I saw it.I came from the Sakura, I feel like it’s worth the extra money if you haven’t got it already, but not worth an upgrade, as I didn’t realise you trade the soup and yoghurt functions for the GABA and Yumami. That being said, this is a fantastic piece of kit and makes very tasty rice!The one main feature that I miss from the Sakura is the “finishing” time estimation bar. It was nice to know how much my rice cooker has done, even if it was just a loading bar style. However, the 10 minute timer still is there for when it is done.If you’re dubious of getting a rice cooker as you’re afraid you won’t use it - you absolutely will. I rarely ate rice before this (as british rice is atrocious) but I use the rice cooker at least twice a week now!I cannot rate YumAsia highly enough.A side note, I would also order via their website, as the delivery with amazon was atrocious, and they missed the delivery the first time, and then the second I was sent Christmas lights instead of the rice cooker and it was an ordeal to sort out a refund.

First of all, I have to say this machine is fantastic. I know how to cook rice... and so does this machine.The only slight niggles I have are with the user guide and intuitiveness of the functions. More on that in a bit.Looking at some other comments, I have to say that some people need to understand that cooking rice is not a finite art. Every batch of rice can be subtly different. And growing conditions, climate, processing, transportation/handling can all make a huge difference - for example, grains can be broken by poor handling/shipping... converting them into short grain in extreme circumstances. Cooking/soaking times sometimes need to be adjusted for a bad (or particularly good) batch of rice. And rinsing/soaking can make a big difference.The bottom line is... if it's too sticky, reduce the amount of water by 5-10%. If it's not soft enough for you, increase the water a bit. There's no point in complaining and saying the rice is too sticky, saying you're following the guidelines religiously because they are just that... guidelines!In my experience this machine produces perfect rice with some fine (common sense) adjustments. I really cannot fault it. And no... I'm not on their payroll!!!But now down to the niggles....What they don't explain in the manual is that the preset timings are basically the minimum time it takes to produce good/acceptable rice. If you use the timer function, the default time is the time it takes to produce perfect rice. For example, if you choose Gaba rice, the preset will cook it in 145 mins. If you choose Gaba and try to program the end time, the minimum it will allow you is 3.5 hours. This is because Gaba takes 2-3 hours of soaking at 40 deg before cooking to be "perfect". 145 mins total time is just about acceptable... unfortunately they don't explain this in the manual. Similarly, all other rices do benefit from a period of soaking before being cooked. This is not explained in the manual, but if you use the timer rather than the preset, the minimum time it will allow you is for the "perfect" result.Anyway, that's my main gripe. They really would benefit from getting someone in the UK to properly proof read their user guide, but it is actually OK. The only other minor gripes I suppose are that the buttons aren't always intuitive... things like the start/power button not doing what you'd expect, and pressing cancel to start it; and the lack of a countdown timer - OK, timings can only be approximate, but even a vague idea would be better than a constantly spinning circle.But overall I'm very pleased and it does cook rice well and consistently.