Product Description
Vegetable steamer, stainless steel, boxed.Steaming is a high-heat, low-fat method of cooking that ensures great flavor with minimal nutrient loss. A vegetable steamer can also double as a colander; wash vegetables or fruit and set them aside on the steamer to drain during the prep stages of cooking.
The Trudeau stainless steel vegetable steamer has a familiar, blossom-shaped design that folds to look rather like a flying saucer. It sits on three sturdy steel legs that keep the basket out of boiling water during steaming. Most steamer baskets of this type have a small, hard-to-reach handle that makes extricating the steamer from a hot pan difficult. The Trudeau vegetable steamer handle, however, extends up like a plunger providing a broad grip and large oval loop that help keep hands away from scalding steam.
The Trudeau vegetable steamer is made of dishwasher-safe steel and heat-resistant plastic. Allow the tool to dry completely before folding for storage. The steamer is 11 inches across when unfolded, and stands 5-1/2 inches tall with handle fully extended. Trudeau guarantees this product with a five-year warranty against defects in materials and workmanship.
--Garland Withers
Technical Details
- 11-inch, stainless steel, folding, vegetable steaming tray with extendible handle
- Colander-style vegetable steamer with plastic extender handle
- Handle helps keep hands out of steam; 3 legs lift food above water
- Dishwasher-safe stainless steel; sturdy plastic handle
- Steamer measures 11 inches in diameter by 5-1/2 inches tall; 5-year warranty
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Customer Reviews
"Cheap. Badly designed. Useless." 2010-07-13
By E. Broome (Baltimore, MD)
In just 4 months of light use, three of the four crummy, rubbery (and non-heat-proof) black feet have fallen off. Two of the stainless steel leaves in the basket fell off after 5 uses, so now the basket doesn't collapse down properly without a lot of frustrating arranging of the leaves in a particular order. It's become one of those annoying MENSA puzzles, which I really don't have time for when I'm trying to steam a little broccoli for hungry people. Because of its large base, the steamer's basket fits only one of my saucepans - the one which already happens to have a built-in steamer attachment. This thing has no business in a working kitchen. I bought the Trudeau steamer to replace the last cheap steamer we had, which broke after a year of use. If you pick this one up by the handle, you'll burn yourself as it swings. And if you try using a fork or tongs to remove it by the tiny wire at the top, the whole steamer, heavy with vegetables and water will usually slip right off and plonk hard down into the hot water bath, swaying on its rickety feet and burning you badly. If some of your leaves break off, as mine did, vegetables fall out of the basket as you lift it and into the water below, again, splashing you with boiling water. I have wanted to throw this steamer across my kitchen more times than I can count. As another reviewer noted, the black plastic trunk does not seem at all heat-proof. Not good if you're a person with powerful burners.I am left asking myself: How did we put a man on moon if we can't even manage a simple stainless steel vegetable steamer? My mother had a similar collapsible-leaf version for at least 3 decades. Growing up, I probably used that steamer several hundred times without incident and without frustration. My goal now is to find a steamer that will a.) work, b.) not cause severe burns, c.) not melt, d.) not break within a few month' time. I'll try the OXO next and will post a review if it's The One. I remain hopeful.
"Flimsy" 2010-05-17
By AmazonWoman (SF Bay Area)
For me, the whole point of this product was the large size, and the ability to pull the steamer out of the pot by the extendable handle. (I like to steam a lot of broccoli at once, in a large pot.) PROBLEM: When trying to lift the "loaded" steamer out of the pot, the handle pulled right off. The handle should be strong enough to lift the weight of the loaded steamer, otherwise what's the point of the large capacity? Very disappointing.
"RUSTED" 2010-01-30
By tjk (Appleton, WI)
Works great. Love the large size. Didn't mind the price based on the features, BUT I wonder about the quality of the stainless steel (probably made in China with poor materials and poor quality control like many things these days). I left it in a covered cooking pot in the refrigerator for a day or two with broccoli in it and it rusted in places (some places where it was touching the pot, some places where it wasn't touching anything), plus left rust marks in places where it touched my nice new (expensive) stainless steel pot. Not happy about that. If it's not meant to withstand that process (cook, cool, put in fridge for a couple of days), then my bad. Otherwise, the quality of the stainless steel is not up to what it should be. Not sure if I'll continue using it, as most of the rust won't come off the steamer, even with steel wool (telling me it's impurities IN the stainless steel of the steamer), but doubt I'll buy another one from this manufacturer.
"Works as expected" 2010-01-22
By Scott Zawalski
The Trudeau Stainless Steel Vegetable Steamer works exactly as you would expect it. The one thing I am a bit worried about are the feet covers, they do not look like they will last long. Even so I am not too worried the feet will work just fine without them. If you have never steamed vegetables or have rigged something to steam your vegetables you might as well just spend the couple of bucks and buy this, I've already started steaming more vegetables than I used to.
"Great steamer" 2009-12-17
By Karen 456 (Sacramento, CA USA)
This is a very sturdy stainless steel steamer with a large basket. The handle extends so that when steaming lots of veggies, you can still get the steamer out of the pot without losing everything.the only drawback is that I've only used the steamer a couple of time, and one of the rubber leg coverings has already fallen off. Other than that, it's a workhorse steamer.
