Steaming is a high-heat, low-fat method of cooking that ensures great flavor with minimal nutrient loss. A vegetable steamer can also double as a colander; wash vegetables or fruit and set them aside on the steamer to drain during the prep stages of cooking.

The Trudeau stainless steel vegetable steamer has a familiar, blossom-shaped design that folds to look rather like a flying saucer. It sits on three sturdy steel legs that keep the basket out of boiling water during steaming. Most steamer baskets of this type have a small, hard-to-reach handle that makes extricating the steamer from a hot pan difficult. The Trudeau vegetable steamer handle, however, extends up like a plunger providing a broad grip and large oval loop that help keep hands away from scalding steam.

9-inch, stainless steel, folding, vegetable steaming tray with extendible handle

Colander-style vegetable steamer with plastic extender handle

Handle helps keep hands out of steam; 3 legs lift food above water

Dishwasher-safe stainless steel; sturdy plastic handle

Steamer measures 9 inches in diameter by 5-1/2 inches tall;

Trudeau Stainless Steel Vegetable Steamer