Oven with steamer - this is recommended

Steam cooking is one of the healthiest ways to prepare food. Not only the healthy ingredients, but also the flavor of the food is preserved. Some ovens offer steam cooking as an additional function.

An oven with a steamer is worthwhile for anyone who wants to cook healthy food.

This is how healthy steam cooking

Steam cooking is especially popular in Asian cuisine. Steam envelops the vegetables, fish, meat or dumplings, and the temperature in the process is 100°C. Here, an oven with steam cooking function has numerous advantages:

• Flavors, vitamins and minerals do not wash out as with cooking in water, but are largely preserved.
• Steamed vegetables need in contrast to cooked much less to no fat or salt as a flavor carrier or enhancer.
• The steamer can bake, roast or grill like conventional oven and additionally steam cooking.
• In addition, you can reheat and bake food with steam. This makes the pizza from the day before crispy again and the casserole tastes like freshly cooked.
• Also for cakes, the steam function, which you can combine with hot air in the multifunction devices, is ideal. It becomes crispy on the outside and does not dry out on the inside.
• In the steam, food from the freezer defrosts gently and quickly.
• Since a combination device combines oven and steamer, you save your budget by saving the purchase of an additional device.

Meanwhile, there are standard special steam ovens or - for smaller kitchens that do not have space for an extra device - ovens that have an additional steam cooking function.