Does anyone use one of the electric food steamers at all ??
Just had one delivered which is a 3-tier digital steamer with a rice bowl and herb infuser too !!
But am a little nervous about using it !!
Gonna try it out today but wondered if anyone had any tips at all ??
We bought one a few months ago and find it great for veg. It is useful to do several small portions at once which when you have a family who all like different it is useful. For us it took a bit of trial and error before we got them cooking to our liking. We first followed instructions in manual but found they were over cooked/soggy. So slowly decreased time till we got them as we like them.
Never done rice in it though, well not yet.
Have fun
The book with this is useless has a few times but nought of any great use lol
But it is on and cooking dinner now lol
Baby spuds, salmon fillers, and baby summer veg lol
Smells delicious sat here lol
We thought (mum and me) it was time to stop killing our food and eat a little healthier if we can lol
So got this steamer and also a stove top pan that will cook 3 different things too lol
use our steamer all the time for veggies. rice and pasta are cook really well in it too without having to be watched all the time. we can only do 3 portions of rice or pasta in our steamer though which is a bit of a pain ewhen all 4 of us are home.
Well one meal down !!
Did:
Baby spuds, salmon fillets and baby summer vegetables in it !!
Then served with bisto white sauce !!
Crumbs do the the vegetables TASTE different when they steamed and not stoved top boiled !!
And the smell was yummy !!
Tell ya someat best investment I made recently !!
Guess we lucky that there is only mum and me usually !!
Being bone idle here for dinner lol
Steamer is on again lol
Got in it:
Bottom tier - peeled and chopped to medium size spuds
Middle tier - (home frozen) baby carrots and broccoli
Top tier - 2x Salmon fillets (Youngs frozen)
To serve with bisto instant white sauce again though lol
Trying Salmon on top today as it cooked a bit too quick yesterdat anf the veg wanted to be closer to heat I think lol
Well all can do is try hey lol
i use mine quiet a bit. put things like fish at the bottom and add some lemon. helps taste and stops the steamer smelling. put light veg at the top and keep an eye on the water level.
I have an ordinary stainless steel steamer that goes on the cooker.
Can do fish in it as well but need to put a bit of foil under it.
Veges very yummy!
Kate lol
We used to have a stove top one but never got on with it at all lol
But defo think this electric one was well worth getting lol
did baby souds in ours last nite as read on here they taste better n they do!! mm dad was suitably impressed too, wanted to know why i was suddenly using ours and i told him how every one on here rated them!!
HAPPY Rave alert !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok it is on again
Found a website yesterday that gave ALOT of tips for cooking meats in a steamer of any kind
Will find url after dinner for anyone interested as the website was brill for other stuff too
So for a change:
Bottom - 2x (defrosted for my piece of mind more) Pork steaks
Middle - (home frozen) potatoes
Top - (home frozen) small bag of baby summer vegetables
And probably white sauce but aint made mind up yet
It is smelling divine (Oh boy am I drooling at the smell)
Most Excellent Results !!
Ohhhh boy was that yummy lol
Pork so moist it melted in mouth, and veg just right and all served again with bisto white sauce lol
Sorry but I can defo taste the difference and the pork steaks were so moist and tasty lol
I do Salmon in foil with a dash of olive oil and taragon.
I also do fresh spuds in slices or the very baby spuds.
Spaghetti Squash works well as well as butternut squash.
I also have some of those chinese bamboo steamers somewhere!
Regards electric steamers.... I have run out of worktop space and cupboard space too in my tiny kitchen. Work top full of bread maker!
Kate
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me tinks i am going to have to invest in one...
any suggestions on which make is best?
Rusty
lol Kate had to laugh when saw breadmaker lol
Ours went POP last yr and I nvever replaced it yet lol
Must be next on me list lol
Just been at it again lol
It too easy lol
Had:
Bottom - defrosted pork steaks
Middle - home frozen potatoes (still frozen)
Top - home frozen spring cabbage and leeks (still frozen)
Served with bisto white sauce again
Bunged it all on together for 25mins and it was ALL perfect, even cabbage and leeks were brill, not wilted or ought which surprised me slightly lol
Ours is a BUSH ST004 model digital version (there is a manual one too) lol
I can't get my head round frozen spuds!!!???
apart from froz chips and those ready roasted things!!
Are they round like new potatoes or in portions / chopped up??
Puzzled
Kate
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The frozen spuds thing Kate is that when I buy normal spuds we tend to peel and home freeze half as that way they don't goto waste or sprout or whatever lol
Just prepare them as normal and blanché them then let to cool and bag em up lol
Do it with alot of veg actually lol
Obviously some veg like cabbage or leeks etc don't need to blanchéd lol
By way before I forget I came across this following website while looking for steaming info for meats lol
The site has alot of other useful info on it too lol
Whoopee get to do the food shopping tomorrow for steamer foods etc etc and of course the usual Wheezer safe treats too lol
Thanks Wheezer, I had a picture in my mind of you buying ready frozen spuds!
I usually buy small quantities and then if they do sprout, cut the eyes out and eat them anyway!
Also, I only have a small fridge freezer so only spinach, sweetcorn & peas in there!
KAte
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Tend also to freeze stuff Kate causa my mum too !
Cause if I end up elsewhere (shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh) she has food in then !
But we have an old chest freezer that we freeze bread and any double up or multiple items in !
But our main stuff is in our big fridge-freezer (remember the one that got replaced last yr in the HEAT wave then) !
Mushrooms and peppers get frozen alot here too !
Gotta admit had early dinner today 1pm so was sarnies for tea but im starving this evening !
(Stress makes me eat and it been a bad day !)
Also Kate just thought wehn mum 1st came outta hossie after her illness I ""DID"" have to resort to buying in frozen Aunt Bessies Mashed potatoes as I simply couldnt cook a meal then either as I had an admission just as mum was coming home !!
As a temp measure they were ok but didnt taster that good to me !!
Hey went to co-op to do food shop first thing (mainly after steamer stuff) and dropped on the best of luck lol
All the veg I wanted I managed to get REDUCED price so its prepared and frozen (spuds not frozen yet) lol
Then move onto fish and meat fresh sections and big packs of meats are on offer lol
Pork, Angus steaks, chicken breasts and salmon lol
Wooo Hoooo got enough meat for 2 weeks and veggies too lol
Then crawled home got given some vouchers so went and spent them with mum via taxi to downtown and back lol
So STEAMER has had a day off shock horror lol
HELP - have some Asparagus spears fresh - to go with dinner today but everywhere I look the steaming instructions are different !!
We only want them slightly crunchy but do I add them part way through or just bung them on top with other stuff under them !!
EVERYTHING is fresh today (no home frozen stuff) !!
Be baby spuds, carrots, asparagus and aberdeeb angus steaks (thin) so what do ya reckon folks on the asparagus ??
Depending how thick the stalks are I generally steam my asparagus on top of everything else and for approx four minutes. Any more time and they become limp. Any less and they are definitely too al dente. You could try testing one after three and a half minutes, but then you risk eating another and another…They are one of my most moreish veggies!
Cheers Mia lol
I will stick em in top basket BUT not add that basket till the other stuff is nearly done then lol
Anyone coming for dinner ??
Dinner is on again: Pork steaks, red skin potatoes, home froze carrots, sugar snap peas all gonna be served with bisto white sauce again !
I'm beginning to wonder why I didn't get a steamer sooner !
Saves alot of hassle health wise from standing in kitchen watching the pans come to boil etc etc that I had to do with cooker !
It has not been used at all in the hot weather but it is on today lol
Its kinda chilly here but its just right for me (weather that is) lol
Got: salad potatoes, home froze carrots and beef steaks in steamer and kettle is on for gravy lol
Anyone wanna come for dinner lol
yes please wheezer, i'm starving!
just got frozen quiche out, but it takes ages!!
Anyone wanna come tomor...........
Opppppppps its today now for din-dins....................
Causa the diabetes the steamer is back in use after a coupla weeks off when I couldnt eat lol
Chicken breast steaks, potatoes, carrots, sugar snap peas and white sauce lol
Anyone for dinner ??? there is plenty lol
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