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

I couldn’t be happier with this KitchenAid grain and rice cooker. From the very first use, it was clear how thoughtfully designed and easy it is to operate. The interface is simple and intuitive, no guessing, no complicated setup, just add your ingredients, select your setting, and let it do the work. What really impressed me is the quality of the rice. It comes out perfectly cooked every single time, fluffy, evenly textured, and never mushy or dry. It’s also incredibly convenient for everyday use. Whether I’m making a quick side or prepping meals for the week, it takes all the stress out of cooking grains. If you’re looking for something reliable, easy to use, and capable of delivering consistently great results, this is absolutely worth it. Highly recommend!

I think there's been a quite a few times in my life that I would get something expensive only to think once I got it that I never really needed it. I would say this is not the case with this rice cooker. I found myself cooking a lot more and using this for Rice, Quinoa, and couscous quite often. It really is for me, an investment into me eating at home and eating healthier. The interface for the rice cooker is really easy and straightforward. It's efficient for my time and for me being a beginner cooker and it cooks everything correctly. I don't have to add time adjust anything. I can't express enough how amazing it is to dump a random amount of rice in the cooker and have it calculate how much water is needed, without guesswork or asking what the water to rice ratio is (because I forget every time) Things to know: You cannot steam and cooked rice together. The steamer attachment that goes over the rice cooker bowl does not leave much room to stuff veggies to steam. I also found that steaming used alot of water compared to cooking rice/quinoa.

I seldom write reviews, but this cooker has been a game-changer in the best possible way. I wanted to write a review after the first day with it, but I held off for over a month so I could give you a fair review. I have not had it for years, so I can't speak to its longevity, but I can say confidently that it's far more than a gimmicky expensive gizmo that I used once and forgot. With this little jewel, I can have steel-cut oats for breakfast whenever I want, fried rice is now a prep-cooked staple in my house and much better than any restaurant version, and bean dishes from red beans and rice through baked beans and hummus appear frequently on the menu around here. The problem: So what does this little baby solve? We all need more fiber in our diets. However, getting said fiber isn't always the easiest thing for busy cooks to do. Cooking whole grains and legumes takes time. One solution is the Instant Pot / pressure cooker, but here's the other one. Spoiler Alert: this isn't going to totally replace your IP / pressure cooker. The pros: 1. Variety of cooking - this puppy will cook rice, grains and legumes. They call it a rice and grain cooker, but they should also mention that it will cook peas and beans. 2. Ease of Use - the touch screen is super easy to use, with one exception that will be addressed in the Cons below. Whatever kind of rice you want, there's a program for it. Most grains have their own program, too, as well as many legumes. It has a minimum / maximum capacity shown in the owner's manual. I read it, smiled sweetly and proceeded to ignore it. The machine will tell me if there's too little or too much. You make sure the tank has enough water, switch the unit on, use the touchpad to select the food you want, and follow the instructions. Hint: The instructions will be: leave the unit alone for a sec to let it zero the weight (tare) -> scoop in as much dry ingredient as you want - it will tell you how much you've added -> remove the pot and shake it to level the ingredients -> (close the lid - the instructions don't tell you to do this, but you're smart -> choose from some options and touch either Start or Delayed Start. Delayed Start is a bit unusual which will be listed in the cons. Walk away and forget it. 3. Ease of clean-up - This is amazingly easy to clean. If you're a total minimalist, you don't even have to use a scoop on the dry ingredients. To clean, remove the inner pot and the snap out the lid insert. I believe they're both dishwasher-safe, but they're so easy and quick to clean by hand that I never bother with the dishwasher. After years of using a first-generation Japanese home rice cooker that insisted on scorching the rice at the bottom of the pan, this was a game-changer. 4. Delayed cook - okay, the setting is a bit unusual, but it works very well. I wake up in the morning to perfectly cooked, hot steel-cut oats. Instant fiber! 5. Keep-Warm - It will keep my perfectly cooked food warm for me until I want it. 6. Custom cook, if desired - if you don't want to cook the ingredients in water, you can use the cooker as a traditional cooker and add the grains / legumes and liquid yourself. I almost never bother with that. You can also store custom recipes, but again, I never bother. 7. Set it and forget it - I love this feature. I can start the cooker going or set it on delay cook and walk off. It handles everything itself. 8. Customizations - I'm not picky about how I want my grains cooked. I pretty much always leave it on medium and go happily about my business. However, my sister is a steel-cut oats gourmet. Every grain has to be perfectly cooked and separate, not mushed together. She saw mine cook once and ran out to get one. She swears by the firm option. The cons - there are a few, but I don't find any of them to be show-stoppers. 1. The price - okay, Elephant-in-the-Room time. It's expensive. There's no getting around that. Watch for it on sale. If you're not picky about the color, you can usually snag it for a good price during Amazon Days. I've noticed they frequently put one of the colors on sale, but not the other. To me, it would have been worth full price. I use it about every other day for something. My three biggest uses are steel-cut oats, garbanzos, and brown rice. I've never had it cook me a bad batch. 2. Time - If you're looking for a quick meal, haul out the IP or pressure cooker. That's what I've used most of my life for cooking dried beans. However, balance the time it takes a pressure cooker to come up to pressure and release. They take longer than you might think. 3. Capacity - One day I decided to cook enough garbanzos for both hummus and curried veggies. This probably came out to about a pound of dried beans. That much went over its limit. Okay, I cooked two batches. It wasn't any big deal. However, if you typically cook for big crowds or prep cook large amounts of grains or legumes, you may want to haul out the IP or pressure cooker. 4. Counter space - Yep, it's one more thing on the counter. I find it as indispensable as my mixer or food processor (it sits on the counter with them), but if you're tight on space, it may not work for you. 5. Delayed Start Programming - Most delayed start appliances have you enter the time you want the job to be finished - or the food to be ready. This one doesn't have a clock. It was an interesting design decision and I'm not sure why they made it except that you can shut the unit completely off when it's not in use. So to tell it that you want your steel cut oats at 6am, you have to calculate the time between the time you set it and 6am. For example, if I'm closing down the house at 9pm and getting my oats ready for the morning, I make sure the tank is full or at least has enough water, add the oats and all as mentioned above and then (I'm not ashamed to admit it) count on my fingers how many hours between, say 9:15 pm and 6:00am. Between 9pm and 6am is 9 hours, but it isn't 9:00pm anymore, it's 9:15. So I deduct 15 minutes and enter 8 hours and 45 minutes. Got that? Yeah, a clock would be SO much easier, but again, it's not a show-stopper. Alexa or your friendly electronic home assistant will happily tell you, but I also use the good ol' digital calculator. (Fingers... digits... got it??) So yeah. As my sister says, my favorite small appliance is still my coffeemaker, but it's getting nervous. VERY nervous!

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.

I've had this KitchenAid Grain and Rice Cooker (KGC315 in Black Matte) for almost a year now—purchased back in December 2024—and I can honestly say it's one of the best kitchen investments I've ever made. Before this, I wasn't much of a rice eater, not because I didn't like it, but because every batch I tried on the stovetop ended up with a scorched bottom. It was frustrating enough to make me avoid rice altogether. But this cooker? Total game-changer. It's turned rice prep into something almost fun, like having a smart sous-chef right on my counter. The magic starts right after washing the rice (which I still do by hand for that perfect rinse). Pop in the grains, fire it up, and the integrated scale and water tank take over with crystal-clear, step-by-step prompts on the display. It asks what type of rice you're using (white, brown, you name it), checks if it's rinsed, and guides you to add and level it out evenly. Then—bam—it weighs the rice precisely and dispenses exactly the right amount of water from the tank. No more guesswork or overflow disasters. It even gives you an estimated cook time upfront, followed by a handy countdown as it steams away to perfection. When it's done (usually spot-on with the timing), it beeps cheerfully, lets you know it's ready, and automatically switches to warm mode to keep everything fluffy without drying out. I've cooked everything from basmati for curries to wild rice blends for salads, and it handles grains like a pro every time. One tiny tweak I made for extra insurance: I added a thin silicone disk cut to fit the bottom of the pot. Since then, not even a whisper of browning or sticking—though honestly, it was rare even without it. Cleanup is a breeze too; the non-stick inner pot rinses clean in seconds. Yes, it's on the pricier side, but after nearly a year of consistent, foolproof performance that's made rice a staple in our meals, it's absolutely worth every penny. If you're tired of rice mishaps or just want to elevate your grain game effortlessly, grab this. I couldn't be happier—five stars.

Love this! The rice is perfect every time and if you follow all the prompts on the touch screen, you can't screw it up. I only wish the steaming basket inset was deeper. It only does 2 servings at most, not ideal if youre feeding a family. Makes plenty of rice for all, though. Clean up is very easy.

The KitchenAid rice cooker has quickly become one of my favorite countertop appliances. It takes all the guesswork out of making rice—every batch comes out fluffy, evenly cooked, and never burnt or soggy. Whether I’m making white rice, brown rice, jasmine, or even quinoa, it handles it beautifully. The design is sleek and modern, as you’d expect from KitchenAid. It looks great on my kitchen counter and feels very well built. The controls are intuitive, and I love the multiple cooking modes. The “keep warm” function is especially handy for busy evenings—it keeps the rice at the perfect temperature without drying it out.

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.

This more than just an average rice cooker. It makes oats, barley, and quinoa while simultaneously steams vegetables. The digital display is easy to use and the built in weigh scale allows for perfect portions. Each grain has a timer and results were perfect every time

El producto en España con el adaptador de voltaje que me mandaron no funciona ya que el que mandan es americano 120v y en España son 240w. Tube que devolverlo pero la atención del proveedor fue excepcional.

Tres simple d’utilisation et cuisson parfaite à tout coup

I’m absolutely thrilled with the KitchenAid Rice and Grain Cooker. It follows the cooking programs perfectly, and every grain turns out exactly as selected on the setting. The rice comes out flawless, and it cooks quinoa and couscous beautifully as well. The cooker itself is very stylish and looks great in the kitchen. The build quality feels solid and well made. I’m extremely satisfied with this purchase and truly love using it! ⭐ Thanks

This rice cooker has been such a game‑changer in my kitchen! I absolutely love how effortless it makes cooking rice — I never have to measure water or watch the pot anymore. I just add the rice, press start, and it comes out perfect every single time. The convenience is incredible — whether I’m making a quick dinner or prepping multiple meals, it frees up so much time and mental energy. There’s no guesswork or stress about overcooking or undercooking anymore. It’s also really easy to clean, and the pot itself is nice and roomy for family‑sized portions. If you want consistently great rice with zero fuss, this rice cooker is worth it. I’m honestly so impressed! Highly recommended ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️