Everything You Need to Know About Steam Cooking

Steam cooking – these are the advantages of food preparation

The steam cooking process originally comes from China, where it was used many centuries ago. The pressure cooker simplifies a healthy diet, since many healthy components of food are not lost during preparation.

• With steam cooking, the food does not come into direct contact with the water. The food is placed in attachments and then heated evenly using steam.
• If you prepare your food with a pressure cooker, almost all vitamins, nutrients, and aromas are retained. The food is not only healthier, it often tastes better too. The vegetables remain crisp and retain their bright color, and the food also retains its own taste.
• You can even save calories by cooking in the steamer. Fat is only used very moderately, if at all, in steam cooking. The situation is different when frying, where a lot of fat is produced simply by the oil or butter used.
• Steam cooking is basically possible with any pot. However, the corresponding inserts do not cost much less than a steam cooker, which makes cooking much easier.
• The steam cooker also has a number of advantages: you can cook different foods at the same time on different levels. This saves energy, time, and money. Most steam cookers have a timer and keep the food warm after the cooking time is up so that your food cooks itself. And best of all: Nothing can burn in the steam cooker.

Cooking food in the steam cooker – you should bear this in mind

Although cooking with a steam cooker takes place almost automatically, you should consider a few things in advance.

• In a steam cooker, you can conveniently cook different foods together. However, you should not necessarily place the food in the same cooking chamber.
• Foods require different cooking times. If the food is indifferent to cooking chambers, you can easily remove the food that has already been cooked at any time. The other foods are unaffected and continue to cook.
• Be sure to divide foods, such as vegetables, into evenly sized pieces as much as possible so that the cooking time is the same for all portions.
• If you use several cooking chambers, you also have the advantage that the flavors of the various foods do not mix.
• The hot steam releases the aromatic substances more quickly and the food takes on the taste and scent of spices, such as herbs, particularly intensively. Therefore, place fresh herbs such as thyme or rosemary in the individual cooking chambers.
• Tip: give your food an additional aromatic note by adding some wine to the water, for example.