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Sakura is a great all rounder – it’s ideal for the growing family or people who just love eating rice!
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£129.90
Rated 4.95 out of 5 based on 1373 customer ratings
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Rice Cooker Size Guide
Think about how many people you will be cooking for and work from there.... 1ml = 1g
Capacity | Uncooked White Rice | Cooked White Rice | Uncooked Brown Rice | Cooked Brown Rice | Multicook | Number Of People |
1 cup | 180ml | ~360ml | ~90ml | ~270ml | - | 1 |
2.5 cup | 450ml | ~1350ml | ~270ml | ~810ml | ~900ml | 1-2 |
3.5 cup | 630ml | ~1890ml | ~360ml | ~1260ml | ~1300ml | 1-3 |
4 cup | 720ml | ~2160ml | ~720ml | ~1440ml | ~1400ml | 1-4 |
5.5 cup | 1000ml | ~3000ml | ~720ml | ~2000ml | ~2100ml | 1-5 |
8 cup | 1500ml | ~4500ml | ~1000ml | ~3000ml | ~3300ml | 1-8 |
10 cup | 1800ml | ~5400ml | ~1500ml | ~3600ml | - | 1-10 |
DELIVERY INFORMATION
DELIVERY INFORMATION
Shipped from the UK
All of the products on this UK website are sent from our warehouse in Kent, UK. This means you do not get charged any import or customs fees. Our warehouse is very efficient in the dispatch of your order. This is usually done during our operating hours which are Monday-Friday (except public holidays).
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Delivery transit times
- UK deliveries are made within 1 working day after DPD have collected from us and you will receive a delivery time slot from DPD
- Northern Ireland, Highlands and offshore islands are a 2 day delivery after DPD have collected from us and you will receive a delivery time slot from DPD.
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PAYMENT & WARRANTY INFORMATION
PAYMENT & WARRANTY INFORMATION
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WARRANTY INFORMATION
Confidence after the sale
Yum Asia purchases include a comprehensive 2 year warranty (some parts have a 6 month limited warranty).
You get a 30 day return period from when you receive your order for a change of mind on new and unused products. After this time our standard returns policy applies.
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THE 8 CUP ALL ROUNDER
Sakura
Achieving a great balance between affordability, function and design, this rice cooker excels with solid rice cooking and tailored add-on functions
PERFECT RICE EVERY TIME
Rice Cooking Made Easy
Sakura was the first premium rice cooker we launched into the UK in 2015. Whilst it was immediately a hit with our customers we didn’t stop there. We have since kept improving this mid range rice cooker to be even more awesome. By working tirelessly with Japanese rice cooking technologies such as our in house calibrated advanced fuzzy logic (AI) multi phased cooking cycles we made this award winning cooker stand out from the crowd.
Multi Award Winning
IDEAL HOME magazine - 'Approved Produc't / Best In Category 5/5 rating (March, 2021) THE TELEGRAPH - 'Top 5 Rice Cooker' (May, 2020) KBB magazine - 'Best Rice Cooker' (Sept, 2019) i-NEWS magazine - 'Awarded i-Buy Best Rice Cooker' (March 2023) ESQUIRE magazine - Top Rice Cooker, (February, 2021) T3 magazine - 'Best Rice Cooker' (2018) ETM Testmagazin - 'Best Rice Cooker' (2021)
LATEST INTERFACE TECHNOLOGY
MoTouch Function Control Panel
Sakura looks like something from the future. That’s because it is packed with tech and used materials that will last. With 6 rice cooking functions, 6 add-on functions, last 10 minute countdown for rice functions, touch sensitive Korean control panel (MoTouch), bright LED display, 3D heating technology and a smart logic menu system. 24 hours auto keep warm, 24 hours preset timer, 3D heating and easy clean parts and more...
QUALITY MATERIALS, SUPERIOR DESIGN
The Small Things Make The Difference
Sakura's Ninja bowl has a 2mm thick ceramic coating for healthy cooking (BPA and PTFE free). The bowl has durable easy to read silk printed rice measurement lines for correct water measurements. The bowl has stay cool handles for easy carrying and lifting in and out of the cooker. The inner lid is made of high quality stainless steel for the more health conscious. Everything has been thought about – even including adding a wedge to the rice spatula so that when it lays on your worktop the food contact surface of it do not touch the worktop. That’s how much we are passionate about our rice cookers!
STARTED A REVOLUTION
The Rice Cooker That Started It All
Sakura is the result of years of development. It is the cooker that really propelled Yum Asia to fame. It’s not hard to see why when it ticks so many boxes for what our customers want in a rice cooker and this was done by design. It looks modern, sleek and fashionable in any kitchen. Sakura doesn’t just stop at perfect rice cooking (long short/sushi, brown rice), it also works as an excellent slow cooker, porridge, yoghurt maker, steamer and even makes tahdig (Persian rice)! If you are a keen rice lover with a good appetite then this is the cooker for you.
CERAMIC NINJA BOWL
2mm thick healthy ceramic coating with specially printed rice level lines for easy reading
LEARN MORE BRUSHED STEEL EFFECT LID
Gives the top of Sakura the WOW factor whilst helping it integrate into any kitchen
LEARN MORE PREHEATING PHASE
Sakura starts to gently heat the rice and water in the inner bowl to between 50-60°C. This begins the cooking cycle and is key to the release of sugars into the water from the rice grains.
ABSORB WATER PHASE
The cooking temperature is further increased whilst the microprocessor makes small adjustments to obtain a range of between 50-80°C so the rice can optimally start absorbing the water depending on the function chosen.
HEATING PHASE
The temperature is increased again to between 75-85°C to start the actual cooking process. This varies depending on the function chosen.
BOILING PHASE
Sakura then rapidly increases the temperature to 100˚C boiling point to evaporate the majority of the water from the inner bowl and to further cook the rice to soften and optimise texture.
STEAM PHASE – sugar reabsorption
Deep steaming then enables the rice to continue cooking while reabsorbing the sugars from the remaining water back into the rice whilst simultaneously evaporating the remaining water. This part of the cycle makes the rice taste sweeter, more nutritious, have better aroma/texture and completes the final rice grain cooking.
COOL DOWN PHASE
Water balancing then occurs using low temperature range cycling to ensure there is no remaining water left and that the rice has the correct moisture content.
KEEP WARM AND STEAM PHASE
The temperature is then held at an optimal 70-76°C to continue to steam the rice and keep the rice safe from bacteria. This ensures the rice is perfectly cooked, fluffy and delicious and ready for when you need it.
Multi Phased Cooking
Sakura uses advanced fuzzy logic (AI) to ensure rice is cooked perfectly every time. This cooking profile graph shows how the advanced microprocessor adjusts the temperature using the weight, content type, water volume, internal temperatures along with pre-programmed conditions to cook perfect rice time after time.
Sakura uses at least 7 phases of cooking types which includes preheat, absorb water, heating, boiling, steam, cool down and keep warm with steam which are each calculated for time and temperature using Yum Asia's unique cooking profiles.
FEATURES, FORM AND FUNCTION
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Sakura is the multi award winning rice cooker that launched the Yum Asia brand. A full all rounder that gives perfect rice at the touch of a button time after time but can do so much more. It's the perfect example of why we say ‘nothing cooks rice like a Yum Asia rice cooker’.
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- 8 cup / 1.5 litre capacity of uncooked rice – enough for 1-8 people
- Advanced fuzzy logic (AI) technology
- White/long grain, short grain (for sushi) and brown rice settings
- ‘Quick’ cook setting for faster white rice cooking
- Useful multi-cooker features – steam, porridge, slow cook, soup, cake baking, crust (tahdig) and yoghurt settings
- Stylish glossy black or white exterior with a silver metallic effect lid
- High quality 5 layer 2mm thick ceramic coated Ninja inner bowl with easy lift handles
- 24 hours keep warm function and 24 hours timer feature
- 10 minute rice function countdown timer
- State of the art Korean designed ‘Motouch’ control panel
- Cool ice blue crisp and bright LED display
- 3D heating technology
- Power Off/On function
- Detachable stainless steel inner lid, outer steam cap and condensation collector for easy cleaning
- Steam basket, measuring cup, spatula and soup ladle included
- 220-240V, 50Hz. Factory made for UK power. Detachable 3 pin plug and cable
ITEM DIMENSIONS
Item Depth (front to back) | 41cm |
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Item Width (side to side) | 32cm |
Item Height (base to top) | 26cm |
Item Weight | 5.05kg |
PACKAGE DIMENSIONS
Package Depth (front to back) | 41cm |
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Package Width (side to side) | 33cm |
Package Height (base to top) | 26cm |
Package Weight | 5.16kg |
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Yes. There isn’t any problem cooking one or two cups of rice in a bigger capacity rice cooker, we made sure that Sakura can do this successfully – one cup of rice comes out as perfectly as when you cook the full 8 cup capacity of rice.
Sakura has two different types of capacity. It is a 1.5 litre, 8 cup rice cooker or 3.3 litre multicooker.
Let’s take the first two capacities – 1.5 litres or 8 cup. Rice cooker capacities are always referred to in litres or cups. Sakura is a 1.5 litres capacity rice cooker and it can therefore cook 8 cups of uncooked white rice or 6 cups of uncooked brown rice – each cup is 180ml/g. So, if you want to cook 1 cup of white rice, that would be 180g or if you want to cook the full capacity of 8 cups, that would be 1.5kg of uncooked rice.
The third capacity of 3.3 litres refers to Sakura’s multi-cooking capacity. This means that the inner bowl can hold a maximum of 3.3 litres of liquid.
You can learn more about the capacity of our rice cookers in the following pages:
In our years of selling Zojirushi rice cookers, we realised that all of rice cookers on the market in the UK, Europe or the USA only had teflon/similar non-stick material inner bowls.
Based on many customer queries and opinions, we took the decision to supply an inner bowl with a premium and durable 2mm thick ceramic coating.We call this type of bowl – Ninja.
The Ninja bowl is BPA-free and PTFE-free and is hard wearing. The inner bowl also has a special honeycomb structure to help the heat disperse evenly across the bowl’s surface.
The level lines of the bowl are silk printed rather than stamped so they can be hard wearing but also easily read in low light conditions.
Yes! To turn Sakura OFF simply long hold the CANCEL button when a menu function is not selected.
To turn Sakura back on simply press the CANCEL button again.
COOKER NOT STARTING
Firstly check that you are long pressing hold on the START button. This cooker requires you to hold your finger on the START button for at least 3 seconds for it to begin cooking. This is a safety feature to prevent accidental turning on of the cooker when brushing the touch sensitive control panel.
COOKER WILL NOT STOP
In the same way as the START button you need to long press hold on the CANCEL button to stop a cooking cycle.
The small piece of plastic is actually the rice spatula holder. It clips onto the handle of Sakura and then you can insert the spatula into it for safe keeping.
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Andrew (UK) (verified owner) –
I bought a Sakura a couple of weeks ago and it’s fantastic! So far I cooked just a basic basmati to get going, then a Thai jasmine rice and then used the Mexican rice recipe on the blog and again absolutely brilliant. I can see the coconut and ginger rice on the blog – that’s next
Dan (Sweden) (verified owner) –
I bought Sakura because I wanted a better than basic rice cooker but couldn’t really justify the price of a Zojirushi. I’m really super-pleased with my purchase, the rice is lovely, the best I have ever tasted – white, brown, short rice have all been tasty. I have a really small kitchen and also love having the other functions, very useful. Finally the ceramic inner bowl is amazing, I’m so happy that it’s included and it seems very hard wearing. 10/10
Elena (Spain) (verified owner) –
I like these products a lot. The rice is perfect and the mug is very good at keeping hot. I cooked the risotto from the food blog and it was really tasty.
Sal (UK) (verified owner) –
I hate non-stick, I have searched and searched for a rice cooker without non-stick on the bowl and I finally found one! Sakura is an amazing rice cooker, whether cooking white or brown rice, long or short grain it handles it all perfectly. It’s the best rice cooker I have ever owned. It’s a bit fiddly at first getting used to the water measurements for brown and short grain, but they are so clearly laid out in the manual there’s no need to guess. The other features are so useful as well – who’d have thought homemade yoghurt could be so much more delicious than shop bought. I’ve used the steamer as well to cook veg and the slow cook did a fabulous job on a joint of pork at the weekend. If you have any doubts about this rice cooker – don’t! Soft, fluffy rice which can be cooked on the timer ready for you and the keep warm is brilliant, I haven’t used this for more than 12 hours yet, but the rice is kept piping hot. Love it!
Si (UK) (verified owner) –
Lovely and easy to use, easy to clean and great results with rice. Really good value this machine, thumbs up from me and the hungry family!
Bella (France) (verified owner) –
I already have a Zojirushi and when I heard news Yum Asia made their own rice cooker, I was curious! This rice cooker is very good, I cooked rice and my family thought it was Zojirushi rice. I like that the timer and keep warm are longer than Zojirushi and it is very easy to clean. I tried the cheesecake receipe in the manual and it was delicious, I was so surprised that a cake could be made like this! My husband wants to make yoghurt for his breakfast, so we will try this next. My husband also likes the mug for his coffee, very nice. Fast delivery to Alsace – only 2 days.
Adriana (Spain) (verified owner) –
Thank you for your help on the chat – I am very pleased with the Sakura. The rice is so tasty and I am starting to try all the other functions. I bought it mainly for the rice and I am not disappointed. It looks so nice in my kitchen and friends and family have also been impressed. I can recommend you 100%
E.Ra (verified owner) –
Works also well on polished spelt, pearl barley and buck wheat on regular mode.
Mae (UK) (verified owner) –
Really like it, the rice is perfect and the congee is really tasty.
Tony (UK) (verified owner) –
Far superior to my rubbish Tefal. The rice cooked in this Sakura is so light and fluffy with just the right amount of bite. I had read reviews of better rice cookers and honestly thought it was rubbish, but I’m happy to be proved wrong. Wholeheartedly reccomend Sakura and the thermal mug is excellent.