What are your best wok cooking techniques and dishes?I've gotten really into szechuan wok cooking recently (as a white boy) and I've been obsessed with making qing jiao rou si and am constantly tweaking the recipe with the different catalysts I use. Today I'm going to use doubanjiang instead of chicken boullion for my marinade.
I like making fried noodles in the wok because it is easy to flip the whole thing in one toss
>>22245881What oil did you use? I see the chinese dudes on youtube switch between vegetable oil and lard
>>22245891I use vegetable oil because that's what I have right now but I think it would be fine with anything
>>22245913>>22245891Do you two think it would be okay to use sesame oil?
>>22245925Most sesame oil that yiu can get otc has a low smoke point and will start burning. Also, I find sesame flavor over powers a dish.
I typically hold a chinaman at gunpoint. The mental pain he feels enhances the flavor.
>>22245925what the other guy said, it will burn and even if it doesn't the sesame flavor will be too strong. I drizzle a little on top when the noodles are done cooking but really they're already pretty oily from being fried
>>22245925sesame oil goes at the end for the flavoryou can use sesame paste/tahini to build bases for simmering and sauces though, goes pretty well with doubanjiang and other fermented and/or spicy things
literally just made this btw, two packs of top ramen undercooked and fried with light soy, dark soy, doubanjiang, a little sugar, and scallions added at the end
>>22245989I've used sesame oil in marinade and I swear it enhances the flavor even after cooking. I made it without it in the marinade and it didn't taste as good but it could have been another factor>>22245997Do you boil the noodles seperately then add it to the wok? I'm about to try it with lo mein
>>22246008>I've used sesame oil in marinadetrue, I even did the same yesterday to make some char siu and I forgot about it lelPoint is it's just not really for frying in general
>>22246013Okay, good to know since I've seen the chad himself chef wang do itthis is the recipe I was talking about in the op if anyone's interested, it's fucking addicting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn0_7SMpw6o
>>22245930>>22245971>>22245989Okay, thanks anons.
>>22246008yeah i boil for a minute less than the package says and then fry them 2-3 minutes on each side in the wok then add the sauce and scallions. there are probably better ways to do this but it works for me.
>>22246068Cool that's what I was gonna do, thanks!
Can someone tell me what technique I’m supposed to learn from this? He didn’t even make fried rice once
>>22245925Obviously not lmao
>>22245925Use a cooking oil. Sesame oil isn’t a cooking oil.
