double boiler

     

A bain-marie (also known as a ouble boiler) is a French term for a piece of equipment used in science, industry, and cooking to heat materials gently and gradually to fixed temperatures, or to keep materials warm over a period of time.

Trivia about double boiler

  • Custards & other delicate items are cooked in one of these, basically a pair of stacked saucepans
  • The lower pot of this 2-pot arrangement holds hot water; the upper, delicate foods like custards
  • First century alchemist Maria the Jewess invented this "double" apparatus used in cooking

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