Hamilton Beach Digital Electric Food Steamer Rice Cooker for Quick Healthy Cooking for Vegetables and Seafood Stackable Two-Tier

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. Read more

I expected nothing less. I just tried the product and it's high quality; the vegetables were cooked to perfection. I still need to try more foods, but for now I'm satisfied. Read more

Absolutely love this unit. I've purchased my second one now, used the old one for many years and handed it down to my sister. Easy to use and works great! Read more

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. Read more

I absolutely love this product. I did a lot, and I mean a lot, of research on steamers and this has proven to be everything that I expected. For one, there is nothing like a good steamer for weight loss, quick, healthy foods, and the life. The problem with preparing food is the pain that may often accompany the process. The Hamilton Beach Digital Steamer is extremely easy to use and clean. Why is this important? Because anything more complicated means you will not use it after a brief period of use. This unit has two layers so you can steam a variety of foods at ounce. As others have pointed out, unlike other units this one is intelligently designed so as not to leak water during the process. Furthermore, each part of the unit is so well designed that cleaning it is very easy and conducive for multiple use. I use this three times a day, as I like to eat as many greens as possible. One reviewer pointed out that this lacks a recipe book for steaming food. Frankly, this is not a big deal at all. Anyone with a google search engine can pull up millions of recipes. It does come with a simple and useful guide about how long a variety of veggies take to cook, which brings me to my next point: This unit cooks and steams each food so evenly and well that I could never go back to the old pot of boiling water and one of those mess thingys, which is what I used to use until I got fed up. I cannot recommend this steamer enough. It is a life changer. You will use it, use it often, and get a lot of health benefits in doing so. In fact, I think I might even get another one for work, so I can steam my lunches. Read more

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. Read more

Love this steamer! Our first one lasted about 6 years. Our second one lasted over 3 years with regular use by a family of 4. We just bought our third one because we love the easy of use, quality, large capacity, and ability to steam separate items with this steamer. Read more