| 词条 | Food steamer |
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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. HistoryFood steamers have been used for centuries. The ancient Chinese used pottery steamers to cook food. Archaeological excavations have uncovered pottery cooking vessels known as yan steamers; a yan composed of two vessel, a zeng with perforated floor surmounted on a pot or caldron with a tripod base and a top cover. The earliest yan steamer dating from about 5000 BC was unearthed in the Banpo site.[1] In the lower Yangzi River, zeng pots first appeared in the Hemudu culture (5000–4500 BC) and Liangzhu culture (3200–2000 BC) and used to steam rice; there are also yan steamers unearthed in several Liangzhu sites, including 3 found at the Chuodun and Luodun sites in southern Jiangsu.[2] In the Longshan culture (3000–2000 BC) site at Tianwang in western Shandong, 3 large yan steamers were discovered.[3] AdvantagesMost 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.{{cn|date=October 2017}} 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.{{cn|date=October 2017}} Food steamers release less heat to the kitchen environment, therefore helping keep the kitchen cool during hot summers.{{cn|date=October 2017}} See also{{Portal|Food}}
References{{commons category|Steamers for cooking}}1. ^Chen, Cheng-Yih (1995). Early Chinese Work in Natural Science. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. p. 198. {{ISBN|962-209-385-X}}. 2. ^Cheng, Shihua. "On the Diet in the Liangzhu Culture," in Agricultural Archaeology, 2005, No. 1:102–109. pp. 102–107. ISSN 1006-2335. 3. ^Underhill, Anne P. (2002). Craft Production and Social Change in Northern China. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. pp. 156 & 174. {{ISBN|0-306-46771-2}}. 5 : Bangladeshi inventions|Chinese inventions|Cooking appliances|Cooking vessels|Food preparation appliances |
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