What is advatages and disadvantages of steaming cooking method?

Answer 1

One disadvantage of steaming food is the amount of time that it can take. Another disadvantage is the appearance of food once it is steamed. It might not be as attractive as some other methods of cooking would be.

Answer 2

It's a form of cooking without excessive heat, thus leaving many nutrients (vitamins and such-like) intact. It can also be fast.

Also, if used on "day old" pastries it makes them down-right fresh. it's healthier and doesn't loose all the nutrients and vitamins in the vegetables

Answer 3

Advantages:

- Early style of railroads, and was (at one point) the only way to power a train.

- Gave another reason to mine coal.

- Helped railroads grow and learn more about the fundamentals of railroading.

- Iconic to most.

Disadvantages:

- Very polluting way of powering a train.

- Uses coal, now considered a vital material.

- Very large, and hard to make.

- Used steam, a pressurized product that could (under unexperienced control) over pressurize and cause the locomotive to explode.

- VERY labor intensive. Sometimes, firemen never stopped shoveling coal.

- Extremely hard to maintain. So many moving parts, so much lubrication, so much to do each facility.

There you go. The major disadvantages and advantages to steam.

Answer 4

Steaming vegetables keeps all the taste and more importantly the goodness

Answer 5

steaming is cooking food in the water vapour from boiling water

it can be done in;deep saucepan , a wok, a steamer

Answer 6

Steaming fresh vegetables leaves more nutrients in the food than boiling them. Boiling = all the "good stuff" is left in the H2O

Answer 7

that it takes long

Answer 8

it looses flavor