{"id":4838,"date":"2019-04-03T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/bamboo-steamer\/"},"modified":"2019-04-03T09:45:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T16:45:32","slug":"bamboo-steamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/bamboo-steamer\/","title":{"rendered":"Bamboo Steamer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing in my entire house so perfectly combines utility, simplicity, sustainability, beautiful design and tradition as my set of inexpensive, generic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000OFRE78\/cooltools-20\">bamboo steamers<\/a> ($24).<\/p>\n<p>I use the two-tiered, six-inch set daily for steaming small servings of fresh vegetables (over boiling water in a cheap wok&#8211;another cool tool). Potatoes steam to mashable softness in about 12 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The big twelve-inch set accommodates a whole batch of steamed buns, masses of vegetables, or even a plate of leftovers to be gently reheated&#8211;and it&#8217;s fantastic for carrying pies and cookies to parties, and so much more attractive than plastic ware.<\/p>\n<p>These common everyday items of Asian cookery are craft works of real beauty, with their woven-bamboo lids, their curved and stitched side walls, and their beautifully slatted and fitted bottoms. They darken as cooking heat caramelizes the sugars in the bamboo, but they last a long, long time (I&#8217;ve been using mine daily for four years with no sign of failure), and when they do finally give up the ghost, I can burn or compost them, and easily afford a replacement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multipurpose bamboo vessel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4838"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33325,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838\/revisions\/33325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}