Stops over boiling

My journey through the wonderful yet helpful tools for the kitchen continue and most likely will be my destination for a couple of posts from now on. 

foto credit: kochblume.de

The next discovery on the list is something that anyone careful with a clean kitchen needs. I've seen once in a shop some models of this colourful and nice looking stops over boiling - the Kochblume - from Cookline and I liked both the design and the idea. Practically, it keeps the water in while boiling preventing the water to go over. All you have to do is to place the flower - available in small, middle and large sizes - on your saucepan. Any boiling liquid will stay within the lid and then drain back into the saucepan. You should be careful that if the insert is poen to do not remove the lid. It is available in 9 choices of colors. 

It works very well with milk, pasta, steamed vegetables, rice and everything that could boil fast. The hob will stay clean and you can finish your other chores meanwhile. At least in my case, the children are getting scarred very often when they hear the sound of the boiling water meering the hob and such a tool will keep them calm. It could be used as well for the microwave.

The professional recommendation is that the Kochblume - a German patent distributed largely in the US and EU - hould be at least 2 cm larger than the saucepan. According to the experts, it can also save energy, as you can control the heat by using the flower insert. For the oven it could be used with or without insert. Last but not least, it is dishwasher safe.