FoodBanter.com - View Single Post - Stir fry practice, practice, practice!!!!!!

blake murphy[_2_]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:54:27 -0800 (PST), wrote:

> On Jan 23, 12:43 pm, blake murphy > wrote:
>> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:34:50 -0800 (PST), wrote:
>>> On Jan 22, 9:38 am, Sheldon > wrote:
>>
>>>> If you think you can stir fry on the table
>>>> with that toys r us thingie you're just jerking off.
>>
>>> I don't stir-fry at the table and I wouldn't recommend trying to. I
>>> set the portable burner on top of the (electric) stove and turn on the
>>> range hood to deal with the smoke.
>>
>>> I *have* used the portable burner at the table for hot pot, though.
>>> But I no longer do that because I bought an electric fondue pot that
>>> works just dandy for hot pot (and for tempura and for, well, fondue,
>>> although I haven't as yet done a dessert fondue).
>>
>>> I'm sorry you don't like to cook, Sheldon. Try it some time and see
>>> how rewarding it can be.
>>
>> so you do successfully use the thing indoors?
>
> Yes. On top of my electric stove, straddling one of the burners, to
> take advantage of the hood vent.
>
>> all the 'wok burners' i see
>> say they're not for indoor use.
>
> I suspect that anything that uses cannisters of flammable gas is at a
> minimum "not recommended for indoor use" and at a maximum is illegal.
> Whether they are the portable butane stoves I have been talking about
> or a turkey deep-fat fryer. Don't tell anyone.
>
> These things are sold at every Asian store of whatever kind I've been
> in to. Who do you think is using them and where? :-)
>
> BTW, they're pretty handy for camping trips too. And half the price
> of a Coleman camping stove.
>
> And BTW2, I'm not saying you can't cook stir-fries successfully in a
> frying pan on an electric stove. In fact, in perusing my cookbook
> collection today, I came across one that has a picture of Martin Yan
> on the front, holding a (thick aluminum) Circulon frying pan over an
> electric stove. Yan can cook, doncha know :-) But woks and gas are
> more fun.

o.k., i will keep this in mind.

your pal,
blake