What add-on functions are there on Sakura and are they any good?

Although Sakura is first and foremost an advanced rice cooker, we wanted it to offer far more versatility than simply cooking rice.

Over the last 10 years, we have listened carefully to customer feedback and drawn on our experience of selling and developing rice cookers to identify the additional functions that people genuinely want to use.

Rather than simply adding functions to make the specification look impressive, we hand-selected Sakura's multicooker programmes and extensively tested each one to ensure that it works well with Sakura's cooking technology.

PORRIDGE

The PORRIDGE function allows you to prepare both rice porridge and oat porridge, making Sakura useful for everything from a warming breakfast to traditional Asian-style congee.

SOUP

The SOUP function is ideal for preparing homemade soups and other liquid-based dishes. Sakura's controlled cooking environment makes it particularly convenient for preparing warming meals in one appliance.

STEAM

The STEAM function allows you to steam a wide variety of foods, including:

• Vegetables

• Fish

• Meat

• Dumplings

• Seafood

• And much more

You can use Sakura as a dedicated steamer or incorporate steaming into your meal preparation alongside other cooking.

SLOW COOK

The SLOW COOK function provides gentle, extended cooking, making it ideal for:

• Casseroles

• Stews

• Soups

• Slow-cooked meat

• Whole joints of meat

• Other long-cooking recipes

This allows Sakura to take care of a meal while you get on with other things.

CRUST – Persian-Style Tahdig

One of Sakura's more distinctive functions is CRUST, which is designed to create a delicious crispy rice layer at the bottom of the bowl.

This is particularly useful for making Persian-style Tahdig, where the crispy, golden rice crust is considered a highlight of the dish.

It adds another dimension to Sakura's rice-cooking capabilities, allowing you to create different textures and styles of rice rather than simply producing standard steamed rice.

CAKE BAKING

Sakura can also be used for baking cakes and desserts.

The controlled, enclosed cooking environment helps retain moisture during cooking, making the cake function particularly suitable for recipes such as:

• Sponge cake

• Banana cake

• Brownies

• Cheesecake

• And other moist cakes and desserts

YOGHURT

The YOGHURT function allows you to make homemade yoghurt, giving Sakura yet another useful capability beyond conventional rice cooking.

Extensively Tested

We have extensively tested every one of Sakura's additional functions to ensure that they produce excellent results.

This is an important part of our development philosophy. We don't simply add cooking functions because they sound impressive on a specification sheet. If a function is included on a Yum Asia rice cooker, it is because we have tested it and found that it works well with that particular model.

One Appliance, Multiple Cooking Possibilities

With its combination of dedicated rice cooking and seven carefully selected multicooking functions, Sakura can be used to prepare an enormous variety of meals.

From rice, congee and Tahdig to soups, casseroles, steamed foods, slow-cooked meat, cakes and homemade yoghurt, Sakura can become one of the most versatile appliances in your kitchen.

We designed Sakura to cook exceptional rice first – then added the functions that genuinely make it a more useful and versatile cooker.