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Once upon a time…
Steam has made something of a comeback. It appeared in the eighties, in the wake of nouvelle cuisine, the return of natural food and the slimming craze. But its origins actually go back much further in time. The first users of this cooking method lived in the Far East. In Ancient China, they steamed food in reed or bamboo baskets. Further west, other nations used steam to cook couscous or tajine …
In reality, steam was only really mastered in the seventeenth century with the invention of the safety valve. Fitted on steam generators, the safety valve made the technique easy to use because it was at last completely controlled.
Two centuries later, in the fifties, France acclaimed the famous pressure cooker that quickly became a symbol of household modernisation. It was only in the early eighties that the first electric steam cookers appeared.
Very easy to use, they save time and energy, as they can cook several dishes at the same time. No need to watch over the cooking, these household geniuses have the good taste to be completely autonomous and stop automatically, thanks to their timer. In an era when the gods of health and slimness are venerably worshiped, and when the virtues of steam are rediscovered, it’s the best way of crunching our way into the twenty-first century!
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