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  2. Food steamer - Wikipedia

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    Food steamers have been used for millennia. In Ancient China , pottery steamers were used to cook food. Archaeological excavations have uncovered pottery cooking vessels known as yan steamers: a yan was composed of two vessels, a zeng with a perforated floor surmounted on a pot or caldron with a tripod base and a top cover.

  3. Combi steamer - Wikipedia

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    A commercial combi steamer with 6 levels A household combi steamer with 4 levels, cabinet-mounted. Combi steamers (also called combi-steamers, hot-air steamers, combination steam-convection ovens, or simply combi ovens) are combination ovens that expand upon standard convection ovens in that they can also generate conventional moist steam or superheated steam and are capable of shifting ...

  4. Cookware and bakeware - Wikipedia

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    Silicone food steamer to be placed in a pot of boiling water Silicone ladles. Silicone bakeware is light, flexible and able to withstand sustained temperatures of 220 °C (428 °F). It melts around 500 °C (930 °F), depending upon the fillers used. Its flexibility is advantageous in removing baked goods from the pan.

  5. Steaming - Wikipedia

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    Traditional rice steamers in Laos. Steaming is a method of cooking using steam. This is often done with a food steamer, a kitchen appliance made specifically to cook food with steam, but food can also be steamed in a wok. In the American Southwest, steam pits used for cooking have been found dating back about 5,000 years.

  6. Steamer - Wikipedia

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    Steamer (milk), a flavored milk drink; Steamer (wetsuit), covers the torso and arms and legs; Steamer trunk, a type of luggage; The Steamer, an album by jazz saxophonist Stan Getz; Clothes steamer; Food steamer; Fastball, nickname for the baseball pitch; Soft-shell clam, nickname for soft-shell clams; Tachyeres, steamer ducks

  7. Bamboo steamer - Wikipedia

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    A simple two level bamboo steamer with a diameter of 20 cm. Bamboo steamers, called zhēnglóng (蒸笼; 蒸籠) in Chinese, are a type of food steamer made of bamboo. They are used commonly in Chinese cuisine, especially dim sum, and usually come in two or more layers. Bamboo steamers have also spread to other East Asian and Southeast Asian ...

  8. Outline of food preparation - Wikipedia

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    Food preparation at the Naval Air Station, Whidbey Island, Washington state The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the preparation of food : Food preparation is an art form and applied science that includes techniques like cooking to make ingredients fit for consumption and/or palatable.

  9. Oyster sauce - Wikipedia

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    Oyster sauce describes a number of sauces made by cooking oysters.The most common in modern use is a viscous dark brown condiment made from oyster extracts, [1] [2] [3] sugar, salt and water, thickened with corn starch (though original oyster sauce reduced the unrefined sugar through heating, resulting in a naturally thick sauce due to caramelization, not the addition of corn starch).