Food Steamer – sometimes the old items are the best!

People could literally fill their cupboards, and heaven forbid, clutter their counters with kitchen gadgets.  Kitchen gadgets are an industry in themselves eating up fuels, creating mounds of plastic with a life expectency beyond reason, and leaving a huge carbon footprint.  Granted many do make life in the kitchen easier. I love my gadgets  but I also love my old-fashioned kitchen ustensils that do the job without electricty, without assembly, and without a genius mind in the owner just as much.  I have several, graters, steamers, ricers, choppers, peelers. Take my kitchen steamer.  It is old, I mean really, really, old.  Old for me is in terms of before our children were born. My steamer is basically self-adjusting to any pot.  It always holds the food up out of the water, and acts as a strainer just as readily.  Steamers like mine can still be found on stores shelves though they don’t seem as popular as there is no three-prong outlet at the end, and comes with no directions.  My steamer is put to work for vegetables like squash, brussel sprouts, green beans, goodness I can’t think of a vegetable I could not use with my simple steamer. It works for cabbage rolls, filled dumplings, and even works to set a bowl on to substitute as a double boiler when needed. And yes, once it did a nice job as part of a halloween costume. Check your discount stores and you will find one, probably tucked away and a bit dusty.  Buy one! You won’t regret it!