Oriental cooking characteristic
The fire has the same status as the cooking skill for oriental cooking way.
An experienced chef knows the nature of the ingredients and then uses the corresponding fire to bring the taste and appearance of the dishes to the standard.
Soft, tender, and fragile ingredients are often used in a big fire, and hard, tough ingredients are often cooked with a small fire for a long time.
Big Fire is one of the strongest firepower. It can reduce the loss of nutrients in the heating time of the dishes, and keep the raw ingredients fresh and crisp. It is suitable for cooking methods such as stir-frying, steaming, etc.
Simmer is suitable for boiling, stir-frying.
The versatile wok has been used in Chinese cuisine for at least two thousand years. The wok is used for stir-frying, deep-frying, braising, and steaming. The smooth, even distribution of high heat is one of the wok’s most vital and distinctive features. For one thing, this allows a tremendous saving on fuel. Another great virtue is that when food is stewed in a wok, the liquid evaporates very fast.
Proper fire management
Proper fire is a keyword and term of oriental cuisine. It is a combination of 2 characters: fire and time, which means heat control while cooking. The wok/pot temperature is changing rapidly, and it is difficult to achieve the just-right challenge without many years of practice. Chefs can accurately distinguish different firepower such as strong fire, medium fire, and weak fire, they are familiar with the heat resistance of various ingredients, skillfully control the fire time, and are good at mastering the performance of heat transfer objects (oil, water, gas). According to the ingredients’ nature, water content and chopped shapes/sizes, Chefs have to determine the order of putting them into the wok one after another, which should be applied flexibly for different dishes, in this way, the ingredients in the dish can be cooked to the targeted condition, while retaining its original flavor. Whether common methods are stir-frying, deep-frying, shallow-frying, braising, boiling, steaming and roasting, key issue to control is fire controlled.
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