page_title: Food steamer
section_title: Advantages
hierarchical_section_title: Food steamer / Advantages
caption_attribution_description: English: Broccoli in steamer Deutsch: Broccoli im Dämpfer
context_page_description: A food steamer or steam cooker is a small kitchen appliance used to cook or prepare various foods with steam heat by means of holding the food in a closed vessel reducing steam escape. This manner of cooking is called steaming.
context_section_description: Most steam cookers also feature a juice catchment which allows all nutrients (otherwise lost as steam) to be consumed. When other cooking techniques are used (e.g., boiling), these nutrients are generally lost, as most are discarded after cooking.
  Due to their health aspect (cooking without any oil), food steamers are used extensively in health-oriented diets such as cuisine minceur, some raw food diets, the Okinawa diet, a macrobiotic diet, or the CRON-diet.
  Food steamers release less heat to the kitchen environment, therefore helping keep the kitchen cool during hot summers.
caption: Broccoli in a metal steamer pot
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