can you steam your fresh vegtables with this steamer
906941
It's a Steam Canner, if you use it with can, yes you can steam can your vegetables. It's super easy Steam Canner.
93771
No. Use lettuce or other leaves (kale, cabbage, escarole, etc.) to line the steamers or, if you are steaming fish and can find it, fresh seaweed.
647735
I would say yes, unless your steamer is metal and you are concerned about scratching the nonstick surface. That's the only reason I don't use it that way. A silicone vegetable steamer should work fine.
1039893
We bought this to replace an old bamboo steamer for potstickers. With short grain rice some might slip through the small holes but since I have a rice maker I have not tried rice in the steamer. It does great with steaming veggies as well.
1335809
I have not done that, but I don't see why not. It is very nice and highly recommend for steaming fish!
262188
You can cook almost anything in the steamer. You may have to experiment with the timing...
739800
While I have not used it for this purpose a rice steamer came inside the unit. The instruction manual also talked about steaming vegetables in this unit.
1129401
I used it several times it burned my rice. Takes up too much counter space. Don't know about veggie steaming
1069126
I have not used it for that yet but I see no reason why you couldn't based on my 2 month useage of the steamer. You just take the basket out and heat the food up. I would not hesitate to use it for that. I have a Pampered Chef microwave cooker a friend gave me so I use that. So, I would indeed use it for that but I have not yet. That is all I got.
1365096
Absolutely. That is actually the intended use. The steamer insert is for vegetables or fish you might want to steam while cooking rice or another grain below.
124507
Yes you can just steam veggies without cooking rice. The holes in the steamer tray are on the large side so peas and cut corn tend to fall through the holes on this steamer basket. I haven't figured out how to steam smaller veggies in this steamer tray. It works well for steaming larger veggies and other things that don't fall through the holes. I did post a picture here of the steamer basket and smaller diameter green beans Stainless Steel Rice Cooker Model ME81 (Formerly ME8) - by Miracle Exclusives
80903
Place water in bottom pan (water should not touch bottom of steamer), let water come to boiol; place steamer on top (inside the pan); place items to be streamed in steam bassket), put lid on. steam for recommended time on product being cooked. ex. brocolli, fresh - 2 to 3 mins( for myself). . or to your taste. This is very good for most vegetable; and warming food already cooked - also good for fish, shrimp, If there are instructions on package being ued, check for cooking time.
2033428
Sorry, I do not know about steaming dim-sums. I steam veggies in mine such as asparagus, broccoli, and green beans.It works wonderfully for those foods. Hopefully, it will work for dim-sums, too.
1434782
yes you can use a steamer basket, so long as it isn't so tall that when you put the produce on top the vegetables block the valve on top. I have a silicone basket that I use and it works fine. I let the liquid come to a boil before I put the basket in and you can find charts online that will give you approximate times for different vegetables. Check out hip pressure cooking.com.
1304977
YES!!! It has a thin white handle on the "inside" of the basket. May I say I love my steamer!!! Baked white potatoes are sooooo delicious, soft and moist. All the veggies and potatoes cook in half the regular time. Hope you enjoy yours as much as I have.
80616
Yes! it works well... I often use it to cook vegies but some use it to steam chicken or fish...
894815
Yes, I tried that once. It worked perfectly with the rice cooker but not dry steamer