/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>9926601
>as I thought that higher temperature = more stuff sticks to the pan
It depends on what you're cooking. If you were doing fried eggs or something then it would stick more because it would be in the pan long enough to burn, but stuff for fried rice usually isn't in the pan very long so high heat is okay.

You can kind of test to see if your pan is hot enough by flicking a bit of water in it and seeing if it reacts like in this gif. If the water beads up and doesn't immediately evaporate then it should be hot enough to add the oil (and let it heat up a little) and start cooking. Don't flick water into the pan if oil is already in there though, obviously, or it'll make the hot oil pop and splatter.