Archive for August, 2011
Chinese cooking like you’ve never seen before
Wok cooking (photo by Flickr user matt512)
I show people how to cook on my fledgling online cooking show.
I use one burner and one wok.
Here’s an entertaining video where one cook uses many burners and woks at once. His intense wok handling makes me think of Carl Palmer of Emerson Lake & Palmer. ELP has a huge drum kit, and Palmer goes nuts on these drums.
I have no idea if the food this chef is preparing is any good, but I did find this video of him strangely fascinating.
Don’t look to my cooking show for instruction on how to cook like this guy. My cooking set would be too hot to remain on if I had that many serious wok burners going at once. My burner is just 12,000 btus. The cook in this video appears to be using hundreds of thousands of btus in total. I bet he’s tired when he goes home.
One of the commenters on this video counted that this cook is performing two operations per second. Enjoy.
