Hamilton Beach Digital Electric Food Steamer & Rice Cooker for Quick, Healthy Cooking for Vegetables and Seafood, Stackable Two-Tier Bowls, 5.5 Quart, Black & Stainless Steel

Shipping was fast with no breaks or cracks. I received it yesterday, washed it all up and used it for the first time last night. So easy to use. I absolutely love it!!!! Okay, the plastic bowls are not real sturdy, so I wouldn't let a child mess with them or give them any rough treatment, but as long as you are careful with them, they should last a long time. I put fresh salmon on the bottom, mixed frozen veggies in the middle one and frozen asparagus in the top one for about 25 minutes. It all turned out perfect and no leaking. Can't wait to try some little new potatoes tonight and fresh broccoli. Says it will make hard boiled eggs also for deviled eggs. I'll be trying that next. I am very happy with my purchase.

Excellent steamer! Full coarse meals prepared fast & healthy!

I love this product, works great, lightweight, and durable, I would recommend this product to anyone!

I have purchased 2 of these steamers. I have really liked them because they are easy to use and consistent every time. Most things (potatoes, rice, eggs, etc) generally only take about 20 minutes and cooks perfectly. The digital screen is nice and the fact I can refill the water without removing the trays is good. However, I wish the quality of the plastic was better. I use it pretty frequently but with both I’ve had, the sides of the clear trays crack and the lid handles always break. My son had to 3D print me a new one (in purple) because the original one cracked and broke. There are also a lot of cracks underneath where the handle is. The clear trays are labeled “1” and “2”. If you use “2” for the bottom tray, it will leak water onto the counter because it’s slightly larger than “1”. So now that my “1” tray is cracked it’s virtually unusable unless I want to keep cleaning up water afterward. So overall good steamer but does have some issues.

Love this. Very easy to use and clean.

When my old Black n Decker steamer finally died on me, I wanted a new one. Nope. So I looked. I wasn't about to buy some of these. It looked like you could barely get a side of fish in some of them. I wanted something I could toss a boatload of stuff in. This was one of the few steamers that had a removeable center rack to allow for expansion. The plastic itself is a fairly soft plastic. It will scratch up if you use a scrubber on it. Use the sponge side to clean it is my advice. The steamer is cooktime + 5 minutes. 5 minutes for it to get up to steaming temp. Which is about average I would rate. The unit fits together in a very solid manner. There's no steam leaking out of cracks or crevices. So that's very good. I've had some that leaked out of every joint it had. The unit takes about 40 oz of water. I recommend you use filtered water. That helps to cut down on mineral deposits left behind, nevermind improves the taste (no chlorine). Some said that they had mold on it, and I got some white flecks on the bottom, but those are mineral deposits. Not mold. The steamer does get hot enough to do meats such as chicken. I would NOT use it for any meat that is fatty. The reason is because of the water level chamber. There's no way to get at it to clean it near as I can tell. So use lean meats. Also, rinse it out if you do something that leaves fat behind. That will help. I suspect that peeps that got "mold' in their steamer either steamed up something fatty, and/or just let it sit there. Pretty much all steamers will get mold if you do something like leave it all nite without cleaning it. Overall, the steamer works very well.

UPDATE: I lowered my review of this piece of crap to one star. I'm leaving my original review as a warning to others who are looking for a good vegetable steamer. I bought this one a year ago and it started leaking water all over my counter about six months ago. I was hoping it was condensation, but it's not. When I dumped the water out of the reservoir, the water in the chassis got on the LED display, shorting it out. It's now worthless. There are no manufacturers of kitchen appliances that are worth a damn, so you might as well go with whatever is cheapest. They're all going to degrade and fail within a year, so there's no sense in spending good money on something that's guaranteed to fail. I'm going back to using a stove top steamer. At least there are no electronics or cheap plastic that will fail quickly. Original review: This thing is flimsy, the plastic is thin and brittle, and shows that it was engineered to optimize manufacturing and packaging and not the customer's needs. There are several things that show very little thought and make using the steamer more trouble than it needs to be. To begin with, the bottoms of both steamer trays are removable. This is a nuisance when your food is steamed and you tip it out into a bowl -- the tray bottom falls out and splashes water on the counter. This is because having the bottoms removable is an engineering and manufacturing decision. It is justified because they claim a selling point of being able to remove the bottom from tray 2 to create a five up steaming tray. All together, the trays consist of five pieces: two side pieces marked 1 and 2, two tray bottoms, and a lid. If they manufactured it so that tray 1 were one piece and tray 2 had the removable bottom, it would serve the customer and they would only need to package four pieces. I will conjecture that there is slightly higher cost in manufacturing tray 1 as a single piece, like literally all other steamers do. Second, the alarm that lets you know when it's finished is weak and barely audible. Third, there is no setting so that when it's finished, it simply shuts off. It goes from Heat to Warm automatically without any way to override this default setting. If you don't hear the alarm, it will continue to steam your food on the Warm setting, which will overcook it. Again, there is no setting so that it just shuts off. I can promise I won't buy another Hamilton Beach appliance. When I grew up in the 60s and 70s, it was recognized brand name and meant quality, and you were happy to pay a bit more to get a better product. It doesn't mean a thing today, especially not quality, but you still pay a higher price.

The overall quality of the Hamilton Beach Food Steamer does not stand up to everyday careful usage. I use this steamer often for veggies and rice. It is perfect to cook multiple foods at the same time. The quality of the plastic is poor. The lid handle broke within the first month. The handle came off. The lid is now cracked and glued. Bottom line, it steams, but the pieces broke very early on. For the price, I expected longevity.

I was skeptical because of reviews I read but could not find any in my area so bought it anyway, thankfully I didn't listen to past reviews. It's great, love it. Not sure why so many complaints about water all over, mine so far never a drop beside steamer, and easy fill up with more water if needed, not sure about the complaint that she could not find the fill up?? It's well marked. Great to steam corn with the double high steamer. Easy to clean also, steams everything fast. Only downside have to watch steamer closely as finish "ding" sound very faint barely audible unless your standing right beside it, but it goes onto warm mode so at least food does not cool off if you check past done. I can live with this one little issue.

This item is not intended for use in the UK! It is rated at120Volts and not the 230/40Volts we us in the UK. Comes with a two pin American (moulded) plug. If you were to remove this to put a three pin plug on you invalidate your warranty and would be dangerous!!!!

Fácil y práctica de usar. Ayuda mucho para dietas

As soon as I plugged it in, there was a loud bang and electric sparkles. Steamer no longer works. Used an adapter that had previously worked with other US devices. Otherwise it looked like a decent purchase but it was either faulty or unsuitable for the use in UK power network.

Incrível, produto fácil de usar, pratico .e as verduras ficam perfeitas.