Oster’s tiered food steamer is equipped with instant steam so you can start cooking immediately. It has a combined, 6-qt. capacity (3.8-qt. and 2.3-qt. bowls) and comes with fully collapsible steaming trays for easy cleaning. The large bowl includes eight egg holders for making soft or hard cooked eggs. It also has an external water fill system with a see-through reservoir: monitor the water level and you’ll never run out of steam. The LCD display has a 95-minute timer. Cooking can be delayed for up to 12 hours, and with the Keep Warm setting, your food will stay warm while you prepare the rest of the meal. About Oster… in 1946, the first Osterizer?? Blender was introduced to kitchens across America. With its popularity came new products: the portable mixer, deep fryer, meat grinder and citrus juicer, each offering ease and convenience to people’s busier than ever lifestyles.
Technical Details
-2-Tiered 6-quart capacity steamer creates instant steam for preparing all kinds of food
-Delay cooking up to 12-hours; LCD display with 95-minute timer; auto keep-warm setting
-External water-fill system with see-through reservoir; fully collapsible steaming trays
-Includes 3.8-quart and 2.3-quart steaming bowl, plus 8 egg holders for soft-or hard-cooked eggs
-Measures approximately 14 by 9-1/2 by 10-inch
Customer Reviews
By Donna (Illinois)
I reviewed many steamers before deciding on this one and am very pleased with my decision. This is a great steamer. It makes perfect hard-boiled eggs (one thing I have always had trouble doing), steams vegetables (both fresh and frozen) perfectly and is even great for hot dogs. This appliance sits on my counter year-round which is not my style, as I like to leave my counters uncluttered. It gets used so much that I couldn’t see the need to put it away. This is a great buy!
By Edouard A. Lagache (Orinda, CA United States)
We purchased the Oster 5712 steamer 4 years ago. It features a number of nice improvements over previous generations of food steamers. It has a basin system to catch drips from the food and a steaming chamber that rapidly gets the steam going. The electronic controls are pleasant and practical. If you have other things to prepare, you can have the rice (for example) loaded into the steamer hours in advance and have the steamer start on its own while you are busy with other things.
We like this product very much. Alas, the plastic bowls have started to wear out, and in particular, the rice bowl now has a crack through which liquids leak through. Worse still, the crack is under the stream heating element where the basin system cannot catch the drippings, so the food juices are getting into the water reservoir and will damage the heating element eventually.
We have looked for replacement bowls to no avail. They are made of recyclable plastics. Yet, unless you can obtain replacement bowls, you have no choice but to buy a whole new unit even if the heating element is working just fine and isn’t otherwise recyclable.
We like the unit so much, we’ll go ahead and buy a new one. However, it is disappointing to see how products for a “sustainable lifestyle” has yet to extend to the good old fashioned tradition of having replacement parts for appliances.
By Cleo (USA)
The lid cracked in the dishwasher but I love the set it and forget it for cooking frozen lotus wrapped rice dim sum and steaming single potatoes. The heating element seems to have corroded so steaming uncovered food is a concern including potatoes.
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