It's now much easier for a modern hostess to cook useful and tasty food at the same time. Steamers save time, allow you to cook several dishes at once. But if you suddenly want to cook something useful for your relatives in the country, or just turn off the light, the electric steamer is powerless. In this case, a stainless steel saucepan comes to the rescue. The essence of cooking remains the same, but at the same time you use the most common cooker with burners.
Saucepan for steam cooker for gas cooker
The cooking process is very simple. Such a pan can consist of one or two or three tiers. In the lower part you pour water, and lay out the food on the net. Those that prepare faster, to the very top, the rest to the lower tiers. Water starts to boil and steam rises upward.
A gas cooker for a gas cooker is an excellent way of saving, since the cooking time does not differ from the time for electric models, but the cost of electricity and gas varies significantly.
If such a pot you do not have, or you cook a couple quite rarely, it makes sense to get an insert-steamer in the pan. This device is something like a plate with legs. You simply pour water to the bottom of the pan and set the net. Unfortunately, most models have only one tier, but for infrequent episodic use this is quite enough.
How to use a saucepan-steamer?
There are a few simple but very important rules of use that will allow you to extend the life of the saucepan-steamer.
- The first thing you need to control is the water level. He should not get to the food. You can pour a little water and wait for it to boil, and then lower the sections with the products and check. If necessary, we top up the water, we tighten the gas - all by experience.
- The second important point - do not allow the complete evaporation of water. When cooking, there will always be a liquid out of the products, juice. If the water completely boils, all this will burn to the bottom and it will have to be cleansed for a very long time from this layer.
- The stainless steel saucepan is designed for a range of
certain products. All of them are listed in the standard table. If you cook semi-finished sausages, remember that steam can not completely destroy all dangerous microflora or other "surprises", as it does when cooking.
A saucepan - a steamer - how to choose?
Always choose only trusted firms. The insert-steamer in the pan or the whole set should be made only of high-quality food steel. If you buy a steam cooker for occasional use or cooking for a child, you will have enough 2-tier models, for cooking for three or more people have to buy 3 or 5-tier models. For cooking in rare cases it will be enough aluminum, but for permanent use it is better to buy a quality saucepan-steamer made of stainless steel.