- 2-tier handcrafted bamboo steamer with lid cooks healthily without oils
- Made of bamboo, a renewable resource
- Oven-heated to create the natural, honey-colored burnished finish
- Great for potstickers, dim sum, vegetables, and fish
- Measures 12 inches in diameter; wash by hand; retains heat for serving
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Handcrafted entirely from bamboo, this traditional Chinese steamer not only looks charming but cooks in a healthy manner without the need of fats. The lid is handsomely woven in a basket style, while the two tiers feature slats across the bottom to let steam rise from a pan of boiling water below. Measuring 12 inches across, the steamer holds generous quantities of potstickers, dim sum, vegetables, and fish, using both tiers together or just one at a time. And, because the steamer retains heat well, it makes a great serving container. Give it a quick scrub after cooking, and it's good to go. The warm honey color of burnished bamboo results from a heating process that caramelizes the plant's natural sugars.
Bamboo is an amazing and renewable natural resource. With little care and no replanting necessary, this member of the grass family grows to harvestable size in just a few years. Resembling wood in its uses and appearance, but much harder, bamboo makes a choice that can save forests from being cut down and thus help prevent global warming. --Ann Bieri
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Rich in Asian tradition and now popular in today's kitchen, this 12 Inch burnished bamboo steamer is hand crafted with the highest attention to quality. This piece will capture the beauty of bamboo while serving a purpose in your kitchen. Steaming is the perfect cooking method for today's healthier diet. Steaming requires no oils while retaining food's natural vitamins and minerals. Vegetables stay crunchy and meats and seafood are always tender. Great for steaming dim sum and pot stickers.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not Very Good,
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This review is from: Iron Chef 12-Inch Burnished Bamboo Steamer (Kitchen)
By paying a little extra, I hoped for quality workmanship and durability. Not so. First, when it arrived, I noticed that the outer rings were slightly oval, not round, and one of them wobbly when placed on a flat surface, so when stacked up, they didn't fit nicely. Second, the finish was a little rough, inside and out. Third, the rings fit too loosely. I actually found it remarkable that no steam leaked out given the poor fit. Finally, I've used it only three times, but the outer layer of one of the rings is splitting up. Very disappointing!
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Iron Chef Bamboo Steamer,
This review is from: Iron Chef 12-Inch Burnished Bamboo Steamer (Kitchen)
Make dim sum like a pro with this thing! Just as advertised. You'll need a huge wok to sit it in.
6 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Nice Steamer that Wears its Logo on its Sleeve.,
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This review is from: Iron Chef 12-Inch Burnished Bamboo Steamer (Kitchen)
I was searching for a really nice bamboo steamer that was well constructed, durable, and looked great. It seemed like that this was the Rolls Royce of steamers considering its price so I decided to indulge and purchase this product. So today I got it in the mail and it looked liked what I hoped it would be. Bamboo steamers are very versatile and I wanted to use mine for a variety of reasons. If you only want to use this steamer just to steam, this is a great product, however, I also wanted to use mine as a pie carrier. This item on this website looks deep but it is actually really shallow. There is no way a pie can fit in this steamer so it won't be doing any double duty chores. I guess it is an unfair request to ask a steamer to perform a duty it wasn't meant to do, however, the $10 steamers I get in Chinatown are deep and make great pie and cake carriers. I think that for $40 it is not too much to ask that this steamer be as deep as its lower priced plain wrapped siblings. One thing I like about this steamer is the burnished finish. It looks rich and elegant. Here though is the achilles heel of this steamer; the Iron Chef logo is stamped in black on the side. I couldn't believe this. Bamboo steamers are such simple, utilitarian objects, perhaps one of the greatest cooking inventions ever made. Do you really want to be staring at an Iron Chef logo when you are steaming your vegetables? I sure don't. So I can't use it to carry my apple pie. I can live with that. I can't however, live with advertising on the side of my bamboo steamer. I will be returning this.
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