Vegetable ingredients can be steamed for about 5 minutes. Tender ingredients often need to be steamed for about 10-15 minutes, such as fish or egg custard. Steamed meat, on the other hand, needs to be steamed on high heat for more than half an hour to allow all the ingredients to mature. Overall the steaming time is adjusted depending on the ingredients.

Steaming is a cooking method that uses water vapor produced by boiling water as a heat transfer medium to mature food. In cooking, it is used to make both main dishes as well as snacks and pastries. In vegetable cooking, it can be used for both preheat treatment for semi-finished product processing and finished product cooking to make it mature or soft and cooked to taste. Vegetables, chicken, duck, fish, meat and other steamed dishes eaten collectively.