"Nancy Young" > wrote in
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> I've been meaning to ask this for some time now. I'm curious.
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> How do you accomplish that? Do you use a special pot? Or
> those little collapsable things? Just put a little water into a
> container and microwave them?
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> Or what.
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> nancy
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I have a dedicated actual electric steamer purchased from Sears. It's a
kenmore product and I've had it since around 2000. It has multiple
stacking trays, a rice cooker gizmo, a egg tray and a timer. I use it
when I steam veggies and make hardboiled eggs in it as well. I don't use
it often for actual steaming of stuff but do like the way it makes
hardboiled eggs. I don't steam stuff often. I mostly nuke,roast or saute
veggies and meats I never steam. I don't like the taste of what it does
to rice so I never use the rice basket plus it takes forever to steam
rice in it something like 40 minutes IIRC. I mostly nuke leftovers.

Perhaps I should steam some shrimp...I've never tried that.

It makes up to 10 hardboiled eggs at one time unsupervised and I like
that just add water and set the timer and wait for the ding....makes work
lunch bag snacks mighty easy. I find steamed hard boiled eggs peel
easily; for some reason. The plug-in heating base section is a pain to
clean though I'm not that happy with the unit, too many cracks and
crevaces that need to be scrubbed. I use the unit around once a week.

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