Stew vs. Steam — What's the Difference?

A stew is a combination of solid food ingredients that have been cooked in liquid and served in the resultant gravy. Ingredients in a stew can include any combination of vegetables and may include meat, especially tougher meats suitable for slow-cooking, such as beef, poultry, sausages, and seafood.

Steam is water in the gas phase. This may occur due to evaporation or due to boiling, where heat is applied until water reaches the enthalpy of vaporization.

To cook (food) by simmering or boiling slowly.

The vapour into which water is converted when heated, forming a white mist of minute water droplets in the air

To undergo cooking by boiling slowly or simmering.

Give off or produce steam

(Informal) To suffer with oppressive heat or stuffy confinement; swelter.

Cook (food) by heating it in steam from boiling water

(Informal) To be in a state of anxiety or agitation.

(of a ship or train) travel somewhere under steam power

(obsolete) A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron.

Be or become extremely agitated or angry

A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath.

Hot water vapor produced especially by boiling liquid water.

(archaic) A brothel.

Hot, pressurized water vapor used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical power.

(obsolete) A prostitute.

Power generated by the expansion of boiling water as it turns to vapor

A dish cooked by stewing.

Steam heating.

(Sussex) A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating.

Condensed water vapor in the form of a mist or cloud

An artificial bed of oysters.

Power; energy

(slang) A state of agitated excitement, worry, and/or confusion.

To produce or emit steam

(informal) A steward or stewardess on an airplane or boat.

To become or rise up as steam

To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.

To become misted or covered with steam

(transitive) To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.

To move by means of steam power.

To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.

(Informal) To become very angry; fume.

To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.

To expose to steam, as in cooking.

A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.

To cover or mist with steam

An artificial bed of oysters.

(Informal) To make angry

A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse.

The vapor formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase.

A brothel; - usually in the plural.

The suspended condensate (cloud) formed by water vapour when it encounters colder air

A prostitute.

, fog

A dish prepared by stewing; as, a stewof pigeons.

Exhaled breath into cold air below the dew point of the exhalation

A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion; as, to be in a stew.

Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.

To boil slowly, or with the simmering or moderate heat; to seethe; to cook in a little liquid, over a gentle fire, without boiling; as, to stew meat; to stew oysters; to stew apples.

The act of cooking by steaming.

To be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in heat and moisture.

(figuratively) Internal energy for motive power.

Agitation resulting from active worry;

(figuratively) Pent-up anger.

Food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables

A steam-powered vehicle.

Be in a huff; be silent or sullen

Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.

Bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings

(obsolete) Any exhalation.

Cook slowly and for a long time in liquid;

(fencing) Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.

To cook with steam.

(transitive) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.

(intransitive) To produce or vent steam.

(intransitive) To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.

To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.

To make angry.

(intransitive) To be covered with condensed water vapor.

(intransitive) To travel by means of steam power.

To move with great or excessive purposefulness.

(obsolete) To exhale.

Old-fashioned; from before the digital age.

The elastic, aëriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling point; water in the state of vapor.

The mist formed by condensed vapor; visible vapor; - so called in popular usage.

Any exhalation.

To emit steam or vapor.

To rise in vapor; to issue, or pass off, as vapor.

To move or travel by the agency of steam.

To generate steam; as, the boiler steams well.

To exhale.

To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing; as, to steam wood; to steamcloth; to steam food, etc.

Water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere

Travel by means of steam power;

Emit steam;

Rise as vapor

Get very angry;

Clean by means of steaming;

Cook something by letting steam pass over it;