Dougie Dodd suffered third-degree burns to his face, neck, chest, hands and feet following the horrific accident.
The tot, who was one at the time, was in hospital for two months fighting toxic shock syndrome - a potentially fatal condition caused by an infection.
Mum Nadia Hulse, 25, recalled the incident that happened in March and told of the horror that left her heartbroken.
She was cooking and on a video chat with her mother while little Dougie was playing with saucepans on the kitchen floor.
He was also holding a spoon as he reached up towards the steamer that contained nine litres of boiling water and vegetables.
Nadia, from Cannock, Staffordshire, said: "I was right next to Dougie when it happened. I shouted, 'Dougie, no!' which startled him.
"As he jumped back the handle of the spoon got caught on the wire and the vegetable steamer tipped over.
"I stripped Dougie and raced him upstairs into a cold bath but he was screaming hysterically and trying to out of the bath and on to me."
Nadia's mum called an ambulance after watching the incident unfold on FaceTime.
Doughie was rushed to Birmingham Children's Hospital with burns covering half of his body.
"He was touch-and-go in the hospital at one point and I couldn't stop crying. I was an absolute mess," she said.
Receptionist Nadia was told her son had to undergo skin grafting where doctors took skin from Dougie's thigh to cover his left wrist and chest.
But it wasn't the end of Dougie's harrowing ordeal.
On 14 March, doctors diagnosed toxic shock syndrome – a potentially fatal condition caused by an infection.
Dougie’s blood pressure soared and he needed an oxygen mask to breathe. Doctors were then forced to administer a blood plasma transfusion.
But the brave boy fought back and within hours of the transfusion he was showing signs of recovery.
He was finally discharged on April 8.
Seven months later Dougie, now two, still wears a compression vest at night to try to reduce scarring.
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