Hamilton Beach Digital Food Steamer, Vegetable Steamer and Rice Cooker, Programmable, 5.5 Qt., Black

This Hamilton Beach Digital steamer is a great addition to your kitchen. If you're taking in more fresh vegetables in your diet, you need one of these. At five and a half quarts, it is large enough to do the job. It's lightweight, looks good on the kitchen counter, and will surprise you with how easy you can steam cook your whole meal if you wish. I ran it thru everything from fresh Broccoli to whole ears of corn to long grain rice to steam vegetables in a bag and even figured out the time needed to do Quick cook rice. Steamed up a piece of Salmon and did a carton of eggs just to check it's capacity. It passed every test. The next thing I want to try is doing foil wrapped mini meals in it. The steam guide in the instruction booklet helped a lot. The only one I had to watch close was the instant rice. It got done quicker than I expected. This unit has two steam chambers which allows you to cook most of your meal at one time. Just remember to leave the steam holes open around the food to ensure proper cooking. The steamer cleans up quick and easy, then by taking apart the bowls to place every part to stack up in itself keeping the steamer all together for the next use. The controls on the steamer are digital and easy to use. When your cycle is done , it sets itself to a warming condition for one hour before shutting off completely. Keep an eye on your water level. there is a warning for when it gets low, but you will find that you'll be adding water to the steamer often with heavy use. I put a pack of hot dogs in one bowl and started the unit for twelve minutes. at the ten minute mark, I added the second bowl with hot dog buns in it and resumed steaming. When the steamer finished and cycled to warm, I had hot dogs ready to put in freshly steamed hot dog buns. Excellent !! The Hamilton Beach Steamer is built solid, super easy to use, has a good sized capacity, it does the job and allows you to add more healthier foods to your diet.

Getting to try the Hamilton Beach Digital steamer was a great joy. I appreciate the Spark Program for giving me a chance to try, and review it so that others may be well informed. The steamer has, technically, 3 compartments, but only 2 actual steamers. In my video I said it had 3 shelves. It's actually 2. One is a rice bowl that fits inside one of the compartments. I've used this to make 2 meals. One was without rice. Both were steamed chicken and veges. After my first... almost meal.. (meaning it was planned, but not executed) I failed to read the directions clearly and I had everything out to make my significant other, and myself a nice lunch of steamed lemon chicken with rice and steamed veges. I ended up scratching that plan and waiting until another meal because I didn't realize how long the rice was going to take, so my planning was going to be off, and the meal was going to be late. The rice does take a full 60 min to steam, so plan accordingly. The chicken only took 30, the veges 20 I believe (from frozen). But once everything was cooked at proper times, and the meal was complete, I was amazed at how handy the steamer was! I love the thing, and would suggest it to friends/family. Only other issue I encountered besides the timing, was that cleaning.. the food wanted to stick to the plastic, so it was more work than I had anticipated. So the second time, I sprayed the bottom surfaces with Pam and it helped cleanup immensely. Great product overall!

Oh my goodness! I am so impressed and excited about this Hamilton Beach 5.5 Quart Digital Steamer! I was anxious to give it a try and it did not disappoint. The upper and lower stackable steam bowls are generously-sized and hold a lot of food. A rice-cooking bowl is included and will easily hold two big servings of rice. Each of the two stackable steamer compartments has a removable bottom with deep indentions for standing eggs to hard boil. The appliance is easy to assemble and the instruction book provides a chart with cooking times and other pertinent information (replacement parts, troubleshooting, etc.). Within 4 minutes of plugging-in the steamer, I could hear the water boiling in the reservoir and the top and sides began to steam. In the lower steam bowl, I placed small ears of sweet corn and tiny, whole, red potatoes sprinkled with herbs. In the top steamer bowl, I placed an entire bag of shrimp and two more ears of corn. I set the timer for 35 minutes and finished preparing other parts of the meal. At the end of the steam cycle, the unit began timing for the one-hour “keep warm” setting, which it does automatically. I can't say enough about this awesome steamer. It would make a great gift for anyone wanting to implement healthier cooking in their diet. I LOVE it!

I received this product for free in exchange for my honest opinion through the Spark Reviewer Program. I have been checking out this steamer for some time now. And the fact that my mom has one. At first I didn't see any use at all for the item but now, I stay on the go with all my children activities, this really came in hand. It is very easy to put together and washing it is easy as well. There are so many different things you can cook in this steamer. Only thing I do not like about this steamer is the timer does not go pass an hour. I am not really sure why that is but it stops at 1 hour. Maybe food should not be steamed for that long. The first thing cooked in the steamer was some boneless pork chops. I let them steam for 1 hour. Once I took them out the steamer and onto a plate, I could cut them with a fork. It was finger licking good. I cannot wait to steam me some broccoli and corn. I can see this steamer being used for many different things. This steamer will be put to go use. I am so glad I picked this item.

Well let me say this: I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THIS!!! I was so excited to get this, try it out and review it for Walmart Spark Reviewer. I use a crock pot a lot but sometimes I don't want to put my vegetables in with the main dish that I am cooking. This double decker steamer is exactly what I needed. I make crock pot ribs and being able to make steamed potatoes and/or veggies in this is a life saver! My 1st attempt to use this was to boil eggs. Wow!! I put the time on 22 minutes and it worked perfectly. I popped the cooked eggs into a bowl of cold water and they peeled easily too. The only drawback was that the directions say maximum of 8 eggs at a time. I wanted to try to do 2 levels (16) but I didn't want to ruin the eggs so I did only 8. I guess I can live with that. I am very, very happy with this appliance and I know that I will use it for a lot of cooking. I look forward to trying it with rice, vegetables and meat. Steaming is a healthy way to cook and with the Hamilton Beach Digital Steamer it's going to make creating meals fun, easy and yummy!! I will definitely recommend this to my family and friends. And right now it's under $30 at Walmart... You can't beat that deal!!!!

This steamer may be small, but it has eliminated several of the cooking appliances I was using. Its sleek design and compact build made it ideal for my kitchen and limited counter space. I was amazed that all I had to do was fill the bottom of the steamer with water and I was able to immediately use it. Before I was using several different pots and pans to cook my foods, now I really only need this. And because the food is cooked with steam and not oils or fats it is a great option for those that want a healthier way to cook. I used this steamer to cook rice, raw vegetables, fish, and shrimp. They came out perfectly and although it takes more time to steam them with this appliance it was well worth the wait to have perfectly steamed foods. There is also a manual that has cooking times for the different foods that you can use with this steamer. I was amazed that you could steam eggs instead of boiling them and you can cook eight full ears of corn as well. This steamer is something that we use every day because cooking with steam makes the food taste great. You can actually taste the food instead of the oils and additives that you would normally use when cooking on the stove. All in all this is a great buy. With the exception of the long cooking time there isn't a downside to this appliance.

At first, all I thought about steamed food was that it would be watery and bland. Boy, was I wrong! When I got the Hamilton Beach steamer, it came in an attractive and informative box. It had good information on it. Like I said, I was hesitant about using a steamer, but when I started to put it together and reading about it in the enclosed pamphlet, I got really interested. At first I thought I'd try to cook rice in it because good rice is hard to make. If you don't have a rice cooker, it can turn out to be too sticky or even crunchy. I don't think I know anyone who likes crunchy rice. My video captures the first time I tried the steamer and the first rice I cooked with it. I was very impressed. All I did was fill up the steamer with water, put the rice and water in the rice container and set the time for 32 minutes. The results were amazing. My husband, who is a rice aficionado, simply loved the rice. Even I thought that the rice was excellent without adding anything to it except maybe some light salt. Very good rice because it was cooked evenly and separated easily instead of sticking together in clumps. Then I thought I'd try to steam some eggs. Eggs?? Whoever would steam eggs? But I tried it anyway. I put eight large eggs into the tray which has little bowl-like indents on the bottom so you can stand the eggs up in them. Then I filled the water reservoir again to the max and steamed the eggs for 22 minutes. Those eggs were amazing! The yolks were not hard, but rather had a light, almost creamy texture even though they were thoroughly hard boiled. This is an excellent steamer because it works well. I would definitely recommend it to a friend..

My Hamilton Beach Digital Steamer arrived just in time. My garden is over run with green beans and this steamer steams them perfectly! I also made fish for supper and it did a beautiful job steaming the tilapia as well. It is so easy to use that it makes cooking fun. You fill the steamer with water to the water line they have on the machine and then add the steam bowls. You can steam two things at once, which is what I did with the fish and the green beans. After steaming I put a little garlic powder and butter on the beans and they were delicious. I seasoned the fish before steaming it. You can use this steamer to cook rice but I couldn't find if you should use quick rice or regular rice so I haven't tried that yet. I think it is also great that you can hard cook eggs in this steamer. It comes with a egg holder so the eggs will stay on end to cook them. Other food items to cook are hot dogs! Kids really like to do this. You just have to be careful with children around as it does get hot-- it's steam after all. You can also put two units together and steam corn on the cob standing end so it cooks uniformly. The steamer is all digital so you just set the timer and it will keep your food warm for up to an hour after it is done cooking. You can also delay the start time which is nice. Cleaning the Hamilton Beach Digital Steamer is a breeze. It comes apart very easily and you wash by hand the clear plastic parts and the rice bowl and drip tray can go in the dishwasher. Overall, I would highly recommend this steamer.

Like most everyone in America, I would like to start eating a healthier diet. I thought that the Hamilton Beach Steamer could help with that. So upon receiving the steamer I washed it out as directed and assembled it. It has a lot of parts to you it, but the nice thing is they all can nest into each other when you put it away. So I began preparing a lunch for my husband consisting of salmon, zucchini, and Jasmine rice. The salmon fillets were cut by the butcher about an inch thick and so I just plopped them skin side down on the first floor (bottom) container. I sprinkled light garlic salt on both fillets and placed a medium slice of lemon on each. I csliced zucchini and squeezed them in around the fish. In the rice bowl you just add a cup of rice and a cup of water. I added a slice of lemon into the rice as well because I cut an extra one. I plugged in the steamer and I was very pleased to see how it lit up and was very easy to read and use. I put the timer on 30 minutes. This was an executive decision because the directions say rice is about 35 minutes but the salmon is about 17, although my salmon fillets were pretty big. Well, everything was done at the same time and it came out perfectly!! My husband was really impressed with our healthy lunch and so was I. But I was also really happy about how easy clean-up was. Helpful hint, turn off power and unplug machine if you don't need it to warm any remaining food that way everything is cooled enough after dinner to wash and put away. I took everything apart and threw the top pieces (NOT the base) into to the sink and washed them easily. Helpful hint, #2, don't use a really abrasive scrubber to wash the pieces as the plastic can get scratched. I can't wait to use this steamer again, and serve easy, healthy meals to my family.

I had always wanted to buy a steamer...just never got around to it. Thanks to the folks at Walmart, I had the chance to try one. Boy, am I fortunate to be able to try the Hamilton Beach 5.5 Quart Digital Steamer! I say these words with reverence because it is truly an excellent product. Let me count the ways... The first thing I wanted to try was rice. I am a fan, lover, and devotee of all rice and rice products... I poured 1 cup of rice into the rice bowl, filled the reservoir with the approximate amount of water...set the timer for 70 minutes and that was it. The finished product was excellent , fluffy, and tasty steamed rice. The steamer comes in an easy to set up package and I was amazed at the versatility of it. It can be easily adapted to cook corn on the cob, asparagus, eggs, shrimp, clams, steamed fish, and hot dogs. Another thing I like this particular product is the convenient "beeps"...It "beeps" when plugged it and turned on and it "beeps" when turned off and unplugged. There is even a 'delay start timer"...steam whenever you want to. All in all this is a delightful tool for making healthy and tasty foods. A must for any kitchen.