I still remember it like yesterday.
I was visiting my ex’s uncle’s place 7 years ago- they’re Chinese. Now as you know, when you dine out at a decent Chinese place, the dishes exhibit that amazing ‘smoky’ flavor. I don’t think it’s solely from using wok, because that flavor is absent using wok at home. I believe it comes from the uber gas burner heat they have in restaurants to super sear their food. You can also taste the similar ‘smoky-ness’ in decent Italian joints with their properly sautéed pasta dishes.
Anyways, the uncle was about to cook us lunch at his backyard. It was a beautiful summer day. We sat outside and he busted out this small single-unit restaurant grade burner. You know the one with 1000 flame teeth/eyes. It looked something like this with the hose feeding out to a propane tank.
The flame was FIERCE, something akin to this:
He wok’d the CRAP out of small batch ingredients. The flame DESTROYED whatever was touching the wok with a beautifully loud sizzle.
And when he served the dish called Beef Chow Fun, I died eating it. It is the most amazing thing I’ve ever tasted. I’ve had many beef chow fun in my life before. None of them matched that intense smoky flavor. None of them matched afterward.
Now I’m in search of this FIERCE outdoor gas burner. Where can I find one? How much do they go for?
I was visiting my ex’s uncle’s place 7 years ago- they’re Chinese. Now as you know, when you dine out at a decent Chinese place, the dishes exhibit that amazing ‘smoky’ flavor. I don’t think it’s solely from using wok, because that flavor is absent using wok at home. I believe it comes from the uber gas burner heat they have in restaurants to super sear their food. You can also taste the similar ‘smoky-ness’ in decent Italian joints with their properly sautéed pasta dishes.
Anyways, the uncle was about to cook us lunch at his backyard. It was a beautiful summer day. We sat outside and he busted out this small single-unit restaurant grade burner. You know the one with 1000 flame teeth/eyes. It looked something like this with the hose feeding out to a propane tank.
The flame was FIERCE, something akin to this:
He wok’d the CRAP out of small batch ingredients. The flame DESTROYED whatever was touching the wok with a beautifully loud sizzle.
And when he served the dish called Beef Chow Fun, I died eating it. It is the most amazing thing I’ve ever tasted. I’ve had many beef chow fun in my life before. None of them matched that intense smoky flavor. None of them matched afterward.
Now I’m in search of this FIERCE outdoor gas burner. Where can I find one? How much do they go for?