To provide a container for steam cooking and a steam cooker, which are capable of surely steaming steam cooking food materials to have excellent texture without excessively containing moisture.

The container for steam cooking is used by being stored inside a pot body 2 housing water 1 in the state of floating from the bottom part of the pot body 2. Many introduction holes 4 for introducing steam generated inside the pot body 2 are provided to the bottom wall 30 of the container body 3, a belt-like recessed part 5 is provided to the peripheral edge part of the bottom wall 30 inside the container body 3, and droplets stuck to the peripheral wall 31 inside the container body 3 drip down to the recessed part 5. The recessed part 5 is provided with water discharge holes 6 for discharging the droplets caught by the recessed part 5 to the pot body 2, and the bottom surface center part 30A of the bottom wall 30 surrounded by the recessed part 5 at the peripheral edge part is formed as a food material placing part 30A for placing the steam cooking food material S.