How you eat is how you live.
Let's eat well together.
Sign up for our useful and inspiring emails.
Get a $10 credit at Provisions,
our new kitchen-and-home shop, launching soon!
Well played.
You deserve a cookie.
We'll email your $10 promo code when we launch.
Merrill is a co-founder of food52.
added over 1 year agoNo, the bottom of the pan should not touch the water -- the idea is that the steam is doing the cooking, not the boiling water itself.