double boilers
Stacked cooking vessels
A double boiler is a cooking setup where one pot sits atop another containing simmering water, allowing gentle, indirect heat for melting chocolate, making custards, or preparing delicate sauces that would scorch over direct flame.
The steam from the lower pot heats the upper one evenly: Melt the butter in a double boiler.
- simmeringCooking below boiling point
- gentle heatLow sustained temperature
- chocolatierMaker of cocoa sweets
- bain-marieHeated water bath for cooking
- steamingReleasing hot vapor
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Fuel-powered flame devices
skillets · frying pans · woks · griddles · broilers
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Hot oil cooking vessels
pressure cookers · salamanders · pizza ovens · blast furnaces
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