I loved it!!
This basket is great for steaming my sweet rice and other foods. Using this basket keeps moisture out of the rice so when the rice is cooked it does not stick all over your hands when handling the rice. It is also quick and easy to clean unlike the double metal steamers.
finally!
Believe it or not we could not find the Thai rice OR the cooker on Maui. Now I am in the desert and no problem. Found the pot in an Asian supermarket--but they did not have the bamboo steamer, go figure.
I bought the aluminum pot in the store, then ordered the steamer from amazon. Came in a few days in a big box. It's a lot bigger than it looks, my daughter's friend thought it was a hat, lol.
Great price, arrived quickly. Have made sticky rice two or 3 times already, was perfect. The basket is huge, have to force it under my stove vent which hangs kind of low... but you can wiggle it a bit and it fits. Just make sure you use a pot lid when you steam your rice. Lining the steamer with cheesecloth is not so easy, the cheesecloth falls down the sloped sides and anyway the rice was stuck to the cheesecloth, what a waste. Honestly was not worth the effort to use cheesecloth, the bamboo steamer is not THAT hard to clean.
First time I soaked the rice overnight, second...
Flat bottom, not round (picture doesn't match product!)
The sticky rice holder does not match the one in the picture- the picture has a conically shaped sticky rice holder, which makes it fit in any pot. The sticky rice holder I received has a flat bottom which is more shallow at the top (too shallow to fit in any pots I own). Right now, I can't make sticky rice with it (and I could if the seller sent me the steamer basket listed).
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