KitchenAid Grain and Rice Cooker 8 Cup with Automatically Sensing Integrated Scale + Water Tank, KGC3155, Black Matte

I've just used it a few times and just for rice. It's the best thing since sliced bread! I'm very happy I bought this machine. It's pricey yes, but the ease of use and convenience can't be beat. Over the years I've had simple/cheap rice cookers that worked but did not give consistent results. So far this KitchenAid beats all of them by far. I've been making long grain Basmati rice because I love the taste and aroma. Start with a good brand of rice! The old saying is true, you get what you pay for. Using good quality ingredients will result in good results. I rinsed the rice a few times in a bowl to remove the excess starch. Put the rinsed/wet rice in the cooking pot, close the lid and follow the on screen prompts to start the cooker. It couldn't be easier. I then walk away to do other things until I hear the sound that the rice was done. It's been perfect every time just using the regular setting. I'm in my mid 60s and I've become a rather lazy cook. Having perfect rice is wonderful without watching a pot. Really is a "set it and forget it" kind of thing. After my first time using the rice cooker I put some rice in a bowl and added a little butter and S&P. It was excellent. I could eat rice like that every day. Next time I used it as a base for a slow cooker chicken curry and I felt like a chef, LOL. The keep warm feature works very well too. I'm not someone who wants the keep warm feature to work for 10-12 hours. I read one review that thinks that's a deal breaker but I'll say I think the average person wouldn't need a 10 hour keep warm feature. This rice cooker/steamer is a game changer for me. Perfect rice without measuring anything and clean up is a breeze. The interior pot is non-stick and I hand wash it quickly and easily. After using I dump out the leftover water from the tank as a personal preference but you could certainly leave the water there for next use. Overall this was worth the price for me and the machine will be on my countertop to use often. Very happy with this purchase.

Perfect results with lentils, quinoa, so far! Really love the scale and auto water dispense feature that makes it super easy and fool proof. I’m excited about getting more fiber in my diet with how easy this is! I just wish the delay feature would let you set a specific time rather than a duration to finish in.

This makes me want to cook rice and beans every day. It makes the perfect rice in all the varieties possible. Perfect every time and it's flexible enough to give you some control over the texture, moisture level, timed delay, soaked or non-soaked, keep warm setting. I use it to make perfect steel-cut oatmeal, garbanzos, pinto, black beans, kidney beans. I even cooked elbow pasta. Bonus feature: makes cleaning easy as rinsing out the enamel coated pot. It's pricey, but if you use it every day, it pays off in time, labor and less stress.

I absolutely love this rice cooker. I made sure to use it multiple times and try out different things before writing this review. Pros: Super easy to clean. It has a self clean mechanism, but what I love is that all the parts that need cleaning, pop right out and are easy to wash. Cooking. I have loved everything that i've tried in it. Everything from soaking and cooking dried beans, one pot fried rice, just plain rice and even oatmeal. The recipes have all turned out excellent and i love that I can choose how well cooked I want the oats or rice. Layout. I love all of the options offered, from texture, to alternative liquids, to delay start. I love that I can soak my beans and cook them immediately after with ease. It weighs everything within the pot, so I don't even have to dirty my measuring cups if I don't want to. Cons: Overwhelming options. This one is a pro and a con. I love that there are so many choices, but it can definitely get a bit overwhelming. Overall i think the pro of options outweighs the con, but that's just my personal opinion. Ease of use at first. I definitely found it confusing the first time i used alternative liquid instead of the water dispenser. In my case, I used coconut milk and the rice didn't end up cooking. I tried it again with half milk, half water (which I had to add to the pot) and it worked fine. So i think it just takes some trial and error for that. Price. For a good rice cooker, it ends up being worth the price, but I think a lot of the cost is because of the touch screen and to me, it definitely doesn't need to be so expensive. I'm still glad i purchased it though. Overall: This rice cooker is amazing for so many purposes. In a disabled household especially, I love that i can throw the food in, set a delay and not worry until I'm hungry and ready for food. I love the versatile cooking options and ease of cleaning.

I've only had this for a few days but already I'm thinking this thing is going to get a lot of use. So far I've cooked white rice, garbanzo beans, steel cut oats and red beans. I did not soak either the garbanzo or the red beans and both have turned out absolutely perfect. The steel cut oats were great. The rice I only made a small batch of but I want to see if I can do a larger batch and see how it turns out. I started out only doing 1 cup of raw rice which I had rinsed. When I first set it up I was cautious about how complicated it would be. Wasn't an issue as the control panal is easy to use and understand. So far I'm extremely happy with this cooker and think it will make my life easy when it comes to beans, rice and grains which we eat a lot of.

Great rice cooker. Cooks our rice pretty fast, tastes delicious and it fits in with our other appliances on the counter great!

Love Love this rice grain cooker. So easy and convenient to use. Fluffy rice each time. I haven’t tried grains yet. All the work is done for you. Game changer!

It is my guess that I have been using electric rice cookers longer than most non-Asians in America. Having spent significant time in various Asian countries as a child of military parent, and then again in the military myself, cooking rice is something I have done since I was a child and purchased my first automatic rice cooker in a Japanese grocery in San Diego in 1975. Yes, I know perfectly well how to cook rice with just a pot and lid and don't need a rice cooker but I do like them. They are certainly easier and also have the advantage that, in good ones at least, you can keep rice warm and perfectly edible for hours after initially cooking, and that is one reason that I bought this cooker. I am a Kitchen-Aid fan-boy, having two stand mixers, including the largest non-commercial one, and many, many attachments, I have pasta cutters, immersion blenders, and various other Kitchen-Aid products. Kitchen-Aid is where I start when looking for everything from utensils to gadgets to appliances, both large and small, for my kitchen so I was excited to see this new rice cooker from them. Even though there were only 6 reviews at the time, I jumped on it and bought one. Now I wish I had taken more time, read the existing reviews and documentation more carefully, and made a different choice. The one good choice was buying from Amazon so I could easily send it back, which I did. First, the cooker only keeps warm for 6 hours. I've had others that keep warm for, they say, up to 24 hours. I don't need or recommend that long but I definitely wanted something that I could cook rice late morning for lunch, eat rice again for dinner, and have some more for a snack in the evening if I wanted - minimum of 12 hours. Or if I eat rice for breakfast, I might need 16 hours. Now, I've never eaten it that long from a rice cooker, and I'm not certain it would be edible, but I wanted that choice to be mine rather than an arbitrary 6 hours from the maker. Then there's the custom cooking options. I have various rice cookers today. I have two sizes (3qt and 6qt) of Instant Pot bought from Amazon and I have a cheapo 20 dollar Presto from the local blue colored big-box store. My better Japanese cooker was destroyed in a disaster a couple years ago and I never replaced it. I decided it was time and decided to look at these new 200 dollar plus rice cookers. One thing I liked is they promised all the other things they could cook besides rice and all of the fancy rice recipes, too. I only ever make plain white rice - though I use all different types from long-grain, short-grain, medium-grain, Basmati, and Jasmine. We eat a lot of oatmeal and Cream of Wheat so I thought I'd try those as well. I experimented first with my $20 blue big-box store model and it actually did fairly well on oatmeal but Cream of Wheat only worked with regular stirring to keep the temp sensor from switching to warm. The Kitchen-Aid, though, did terrible. The custom settings require you to pour in the water yourself - so what's the point of having the bottle attached? And you can't set the cooking time. You add the cereal and it weighs it and you add the water. The cooker decides when to shut off and you can't restart the heat. On the Cream of Wheat in the 20 dollar cooker, at least all I had to do is to push the button down and it heated back up. So custom on the 300 dollar Kitchen-Aid is worthless. The water bottle is an interesting idea but the implementation is terrible. The sides are all smooth so there's no way to hold on to it securely, no finger indentation or anything. You have to tilt it to get it to attach so you're holding water in a very precarious position, tilted and off balance, and nothing to grip other than slick plastic. The cooker even fails at just plain white rice. You put in the rice and the cooker weighs it. You cook how moist you want it when done. I chose the most moist setting. You can't tell it how much water or how much time, you can't make adjustments or corrections. You put in the rice and tell it the moisture you want and that's it. So I told it the most moist (I don't remember the exact words the menu used) and cooked some short-grain rice. When it was done, it was dry, even a bit crunchy. And there's not a thing you can do to fix the recipe in the cooker. You can't change the water, you can't change the time, the heat, or anything else. So, in the end, this Kitchen-Aid rice cooker failed at every single promise that it makes. I'm going to try the oatmeal and Cream of Wheat in the Instant Pots (I bought a few extra boxes of both cereals just to waste in working out it out in various appliances). If they work out OK then I'll just use the Instant Pots. If they don't do a great job, I might try one of the Zojirushi cookers and see if it's worth the price. Otherwise, I will stick with the 20 dollar big-box store rice cooker that really does a great job with everything I throw at it, with, at most, having to give an extra stir for thick cereals that confuse the temperature sensor when cooking.