Sakura Advanced Fuzzy Logic Ceramic Rice Cooker
Sakura is a great all rounder – it’s ideal for the growing family or people who just love eating rice! Sakura can cook all types of rice perfectly at the touch of a button but also has useful complementary add on functions.
🗲– supplied with detachable US plug and power cord
$139.90
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Cooking Capacity Guide
| 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 | ~1440ml | 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 |
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Delivery transit times
LAST POST DATES
Please see the following dates which are the last post estimates for having a good chance of getting your order received in time for Christmas.
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WARRANTY INFORMATION
Confidence after the sale
Yum Asia purchases include a comprehensive 2 year 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.
Achieving a great balance between affordability, function and design, this rice cooker excels with solid rice cooking and tailored add-on functions
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 advanced fuzzy logic (AI) multi phased cooking cycle to make this award winning cooker stand out from the crowd,
Multi Award Winning
THE INDEPENDENT - 'Best Buy / IndyBest (January, 2025) 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)
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, 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...
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 the spatula lays on your worktop the food contact surface of it do not touch the worktop. That’s how much we are passionate about our cookers!
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. Plus 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! If you are a keen rice lover with a good appetite then this is the cooker for you.
Explore Sakura Further
CERAMIC NINJA BOWL
BRUSHED STEEL EFFECT LID
PREHEATING PHASE
Tsuki 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
Tsuki 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.
Watch Our Explainer
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’.
- 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), brown rice and crust (tahdig) settings
- ‘Quick’ cook setting for faster white rice cooking
- Useful multi-cooker features – steam, porridge, slow cook, soup, cake baking, and yoghurt settings
- Stylish glossy black or glossy 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
- 120V, 60Hz. Factory made for US power. Detachable US plug and cable
ITEM DIMENSIONS
| Item Depth (front to back) | 41cm |
|---|---|
| Item Width (side to side) | 32cm |
| Item Height (base to top) | 26cm |
| Item Weight | 5.05kg |
PACKAGE DIMENSIONS
| Package Depth (front to back) | 41cm |
|---|---|
| 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.
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, PTFE or PFAS (PFOA and PFOS) 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.
Tom (UK) –
Amazing, amazing, amazing, just what I have been looking for all these years. A rice cooker that doesn’t make a mess in my kitchen and that I can just leave it alone to do it’s thing and a while later all is ready to eat. Eating rice is part of my new get healthy for 2017 summer and my tafu flask will be used for cold drinks when I’m showing off my new beach body..lol. great stuff
Lorenzo (Italy) –
It took 4 days for my rice cooker to deliver to Italy. Attractive box and even more attractive cooker. Our family is enjoying the white and brown rice that is made from this
Ophelia (Belgium) –
Yum Asia have created a masterpiece with this rice cooker. It’s beautiful. My rice is cooked exactly how I like it and the slow cooking feature is surprisingly good and useful. Great job!
Toby (UK) –
Love it love it love it. Perfect rice, perfect steaming, perfect slow cooking and I just made a perfect banana cake. Thank you Yum Asia for your advice in choosing the right rice cooker for me. The online chat with you was very helpful and I learned a lot from it. The manual for the cooker is well thought out and has some good recipes included. I will recommend this to all my friends and family.
Kyle (Scotland) –
Who would have thought… a rice cooker than is as good as the leading Japanese brands but it is what it is. I Love my Zojirushi but it’s getting old now and decided to have a flutter on Yum Asia’s designed cooker and I’m glad I did. Lovely little cooker and very futuristic in design. I could not be more happy.
Mia (Spain) –
I was just going to buy the rice cooker, but then I notice the combi deal and thought why not, only 10£ more! Very happy with Sakura and delighted with the ceramic coat bowl. The thermal tafu is very handy, I like the stainless steel inside and it keeps my drink very hot on my journeys. PERFECTO
Steve (UK) –
I’ve been looking around for a decent rice cooker and could only find cheap models that made more of a mess than my saucepan. Then I was recommended Yum Asia by a friend and I snapped this combo deal up right away. It looked fantastic and now that I have it it is performing really far above my expectations. Great Tafu mug as an added extra. 5 point rating well deserved.
Anni (Finland) –
Terrific rice cooker. My friend also likes to use this for making Tahdig rice and it wroks really well. I prefer to use it for Jasmine rice cooking and have been steaming my vegetables with much ease. Delivery to Finland was 4 days from when I made my order which was quicker than I expected. I’m very very happy.
Arthur (UK) –
I’m surprised that the price is this low considering what you get for your money. I had a very old Zojirushi rice cooker which was over 11 years old and it was time for a replacement. Donna at Yum Asia receommended that I try this Sakura rice cooker as my money is pretty tight right now and she wasn’t wrong. I was also in the market for buying a good thermos as I travel a lot with my work. Thank you Donna and Yum Asia and thank you for your personal touches which really made a difference.
Sidney (UK) –
This makes absolutely delicious rice. My daughter bought this for me and promised that the rice would be much better than I had cooked before and she wasn’t wrong. The display is nice and clear and bright for me to read in my older age. My only issue is that the markings on the inner bowl are a little difficult to read under dim light. Other than this I am very impressed with this.