Haha I’m gonna sit here and scrape some crust or get all the oil perfectly gone? No, not a chance. I know who put the oil there. I did. It’s simple.
Haha I’m gonna sit here and scrape some crust or get all the oil perfectly gone? No, not a chance. I know who put the oil there. I did. It’s simple.
I always thought “westerners over clean their pans” was an exaggeration until I moved out of home.
Me: Wok gets used, I gently scrub it with a bamboo wok brush thing (google it) under running water, done. No detergent or soap.
Housemate: soaks the pan for an hour, scrubs it with like 30mLs of dishwashing liquid then puts it in the dishwasher.
Like that can’t be good for the environment. I used like 250mL of warm water, he used like 10 litres combined soaking, rinsing and running a dishwasher.
For reference, I made like a day’s worth of fried rice and stir fry.
He made one (1) meal, breakfast, and only 2 things were on that pan: bacon & eggs
???
Angloids certainly don’t clean any dishes properly. The things I’ve seen on glasses, cups, etc.
That is excessive, but more reflective of being poorly trained than a western culture.
I mean he did hit the bong after breakfast so soaking may have been just him leaving it in water for longer than he anticipated.
Still I do this. Takes less than 60 seconds. No detergent or dishwasher involved, no soaking.
I’ve had roommates. Letting something soak is the lie they tell when they’re leaving it for someone else. Nothing needs to be soaked if you don’t suck at cooking/washing up
Well if you have stuff stuck to a pot or pan that can’t go in the dishwasher, it does help to soak for a couple minutes (not overnight tho lol)
I hand wash my pots and pans. Dishwasher is for plates, glasses and cutlery
counterpoint: being poorly trained is a hallmark of western culture
Getting a woke was the thing that changed this for me actually.
The downside is having to find houses with gas stoves, which is apparently harder than anticipated in Southern Racist Island
I don’t know if such a thing exists but induction transfers heat much more effectively and there is no reason you couldn’t structure the coils in such a way that the coupling strength mapped to the gradient one experiences cooking on a gas stove.
I have been meaning to find/build such a thing for a while. Either through contouring like a heating mantle or using something like copper heat pipes as an intermediate stage between an induction plate and the wok plus a magnet to override the frustrating interlock.
The only induction burners at my work (western restaurant) kitchen are for a bain-marie or to aid with sous-vide, so I’m not too familiar.
But from what I gather, the issue becomes maintaining heat. Wok stir frying requires rapidly throwing in many cold ingredients in rapid succession and having them all cook without turning into a soggy mess. However, throwing in cold ingredients which cools the wok. But if you were serious and got an attachment to concentrate the flame at the bottom which rapidly returns them to the previous temperature. I don’t think an induction burner can return to top temp that rapidly. Also you can’t flambé your 料酒/cooking spirit as easily.
On a commercial setting… Well, commercial wok burners require constant water cooling because if you don’t, the metal warps from constant 400°C/750°F+ temperatures. While you can water cool electronics, something that takes as much abuse as a stove might not want to have running water that close to electrical components.
Induction stoves typically have much functional higher heat output than gas at least in a home setting, they also don’t need much cooling since the coil itself doesn’t heat much. It always dominates in water boiling etc tests.
A gas stove heats the air/plasma a lot of which is carried away by convection, you can’t hold your face above a gas burner cranked to max but it wont even feel warm above an induction stove at max (until the pot is hot of course and convecting that way). An induction stove heats basically directly opposite the coil, the reason they have magnetic interlocks is because if they are on and you move a ringed finger over the stove it will almost immediately amputate the finger as ~2 kW are dumped into like 10 grams of metal. Idk if you’ve ever seen induction forging but you can heat metal at insane speeds using induction. I have cracked cast iron by throwing it straight on my shitty cheap induction stove at max power.