Real Bamboo Steamer Basket 12/13/14 Inch Classic Traditional Basket Design Handmade Without Glue for Dumplings, Vegetables, Chicken, Fish (Color : 3 Steamers and 1 lids, Size : 14inch)

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Finally, if you want to steam larger items—whole fish, large plates of savory egg custard, or a whole chicken—then a bamboo steamer often isn’t the best option.

Keep the lid on until you approach the expected cooking time, and put it back on right away if the food isn’t ready yet. We will preserve the content of any e-mail you send us if we believe we have the legal requirement to do so. And of course, the steamers are pretty enough that you can serve food right out of them at the table. In general, meats take around 20-30 minutes to cook through, seafood and dumplings (a bamboo steamer specialty!If rinsing alone, or soaking and then rinsing, don’t remove all the food bits from the steamer, it’s time to use some elbow grease! Originally from China, bamboo steamers are perhaps best known today as the vessels used to cook and serve many popular dim sum dishes. Place the bamboo steamer into your wok (or another wide-rimmed, shallow pan, like a wide skillet), and fill it with enough water to come up above the bottom rim of the steamer by about a quarter inch to half an inch. A wok is wide, so you can fit virtually anything in there and steam it,” says Serious Eats contributor and chef Lucas Sin of Junzi Kitchen and Niceday Chinese. Once you’re finished cleaning and (if needed) deodorizing the steamer, leave it on a drying rack until all surface moisture is gone.

Especially if you used leaves or parchment paper as a liner, a quick rinse is often all that’s needed to clean your bamboo steamer. Otherwise, you risk having food like dumplings and buns stick to the steamer, ripping the food to shreds when you try to lift it out.Use a kitchen thermometer to make sure meats are cooked to a safe temperature—for example, cook pork to 63 °C (145 °F). Steaming is also the key to larger-format dishes like steamed fish, steamed meatballs, and various steamed meat cakes. Food is heated by steam, and the food is full of warmth, and the diners who are far away from home will also be full of happiness through the warmth of the food. Then, dip a clean cloth or folded-up paper towel into a dish of cooking oil and wipe a thin layer over all surfaces of the bamboo steamer.