steamer pot
Tiered cooking vessel
A steamer pot is a cooking vessel designed for steaming food, typically consisting of stacked compartments with perforated bottoms that allow steam to rise from boiling water below.
Used for vegetables, dumplings, fish, and seafood—especially for steaming clams and mussels: We cooked lobsters in the steamer pot.
- bambooTall woody grass
- bamboo basketPlaited grass-stem receptacle
- crabPincer-bearing shellfish
- lobsterLarge marine shellfish
- clamsEdible burrowing mollusks
mussels · clam bake · broth · boiling · boiling water · lid · insert · rack · seafood · dumplings · vegetables · kitchen · stockpot · colander · simmer · slow cook · condensation · heat
- cookwarepan, Dutch oven, pans, saucepan, frying pan
- potsstockpot, teapot, crockpot, cachepot, cauldron
- seafood boilseafood boil, crab boil, clambake, stockpot, Old Bay seasoning
- steamer types
- Lobsterlobster tail, lobster bisque, lobster thermidor, Maine lobster, spiny lobster
- shellfishingclams, crabs, lobsters, mussels, scallops