Capturing Steam

I take a lot of pictures in the kitchen and can't seem to do a very good job of capturing steam rising off of food. Below is probably my best example, but still not great. It seems like if I capture the steam, I overexpose the rest of the image and have to use a lot of burning in PS. Any tips from you veteran food photogs?

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Maybe shoot an AEB sequence and merge them in Photoshop.

maybe try an off camera flash to the side. I'm not sure if it works with steam, but I know it does with snow and rain...

canonloader wrote in post #9829458
Maybe shoot an AEB sequence and merge them in Photoshop.

This is worth a shot. I will have to set up my tripod in the kitchen. My wife will love working around that!

Cotmweasel wrote in post #9831450
maybe try an off camera flash to the side. I'm not sure if it works with steam, but I know it does with snow and rain...

This shot was done from the side with a reflector. Maybe I just need to keep on trying from different angles. Thanks for the input

Shoot it in Raw if you AEB your going to get steam multiplying by the different time of the exposures. If you shoot it in raw and then adjust your exposure to get a good capture of the steam and another good capture of the rest you can then merge them