Black & Decker Food Steamer

by Black & Decker

Product Features

• Add herbs and spices to the built-in flavor scenter screen to spice up food
• Enhance the flavor of vegetables, seafood, chicken, or fish
• 2-1/2-quart bowl is big enough for meals or side dishes
• Includes 4-cup rice bowl
• White wine, lemon juice, or broth added to the water expands food flavor

Product Details

Product Manual [975kb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 9.4 x 8.5 inches ; 3.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B00005OTZ6
• Item model number: 297046
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (142 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #66,270 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)

Product Description

The Black & Decker Food Steamer & Rice Cooker is a pitch perfect way to serve up the finest, tastiest food in record time. Its a classic home food steamer and rice cooker, featuring a built-in Flavor Scenter screen, so you wont miss out on taste. Thats value! Add wine or broth for enhanced flavor, but get ready to eat, because with this models Fast Steam feature, your dinner will be ready in less than a minute. Bonus features: Auto off with signal bell, classic white color. 2.5 qt. (2.4 L) steaming bowl; 4-cup (960 ml) rice bowl.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

222 of 225 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A mainstay of our kitchen for almost 10 years!!!, July 14, 2004

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claresmom "claresmom" (Wynnewood, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Black & Decker Food Steamer (Kitchen)

When some friends gave this little steamer to my husband & me almost 10 years ago, we thought it was a dumb idea! "What do you need a whole separate appliance like this for?" we laughed. After all, we assured each other, we had a complete set of pots & pans, running water, etc. We thought this was just a silly affectation. We were wrong. We finally decided to use the steamer when our friends were coming to dinner, cooked some broccoli in it and....had our revelation. That night the broccoli was crisp, bright green & "al dente" after 12 minutes of steaming. In other words, "perfect." So was the asparagus we steamed the next night, the rice we steamed the night after that, and so on.

1001 nights later, having used this handy little appliance almost each & every night, we finally had to admit that we'd been wrong, completely wrong, totally wrong! This is no affectation! Not only did our vegetables, rice, couscous, etc. come out perfectly every time, steaming preserved their nutrients & this little steamer was incredibly easy & convenient to use. I've even used it to sterilize my younger child's bottles & to steam foreign stamps off envelopes for my son's collection. The only small appliance we all use more frequently is our electric kettle! This steamer's compact size, however, makes it easy to store & all of its plastic bowls/covers/baskets fit easily in the diswasher for easy after-dinner clean-up. After nearly 10 years it still works as well as it did that first night!

You need this steamer. You may not realize it till after you've owned it for a bit, but if you don't find yourself discovering multiple uses for it, well, your imagination is lacking!

70 of 71 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite kitchen appliances!, May 28, 2004

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ChihuahuaMom (Issaquah, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Black & Decker Food Steamer (Kitchen)

I've been really happy with this little steamer. It does exactly what it's supposed to and it does it well. My in-laws, from Germany, were really impressed with it when we made a seafood dinner last summer and it has also doubled as a (small) humidifier when my Chihuahua puppy had a bad chest cold. The steamer's other benefits are that it travels easily to friends' houses for impromptu dinners, it cleans up very quickly and it takes only a small amount of storage space.

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Product!, June 17, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Black & Decker Food Steamer (Kitchen)

I have had one of these for nearly 9 years and just had to replace it because the motor died. Tip: if you replace it with same model, don't throw out your steam basket and lid because then you have two for you new one. This isn't just for veggies as most people assume. It has a great guide giving you steam times for all sorts of foods, but I've used it for steaming Salmon, wontons, clams, shrimp(forget having the store steam them!), veggies, rice, fruit(for making baby food). It's so inexpensive and soooo useful. I've bought several for people who have "wow'd" over my use of it!