Questions about the Steaming & Poaching poster

What’s on the Steaming & Poaching poster?

Steaming against Poaching, side by side. Steaming: Food above the water, not in it; Steaming: 100°C, gentle; Steaming: Retains water-soluble vitamins; Steaming: Vegetables, fish, dumplings; Steaming: No flavour added or lost; Poaching: Submerged in liquid; Poaching: 70–85°C, barely trembling; Poaching: Flavours exchange with the liquid; Poaching: Eggs, fish, chicken, fruit; Poaching: Liquid becomes usable stock; Both are gentle. Steaming keeps the food's own flavour; poaching trades flavour with…. A boiling poach toughens fish and shreds a poached egg. If it is bubbling vigorously it is too hot.

Who is the Steaming & Poaching poster for?

Steaming & Poaching belongs to the Kitchen section rather than to a school year, because food is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning technique can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Steaming & Poaching poster?

Poaching liquid should barely tremble. Anything more toughens delicate proteins. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Steaming & Poaching belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Steaming & Poaching?

Batch Cooking, Blanching and Braising sit alongside Steaming & Poaching in the Kitchen section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Batch CookingBlanchingBraising

Is the Steaming & Poaching poster free to download and print?

Yes. Steaming & Poaching downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kitchen section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Steaming & Poaching poster print at?

Steaming & Poaching is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Steaming & Poaching loses nothing.Printing guide