/ck/ - Food & Cooking

You're supposed to eat it soon after the sauce is put on while it's still crispy. Are you actually retarded?

because people buy it

>>13126604
Try a different chink joint yours sounds defective

>>13126604
Because white people got triggered by normal food

>>13126604
I'm gonna try doing lobster tail like that in a few days.

>>13126661
General Tso's style lobster tail? Dear god, that sounds delicious.

>>13126688
Cantonese lobster is the best Chinese lobster, but if you only have gross frozen lobster then by all means blast it with cornstarch and syrup

>>13126604
>crisp loses itself instantantantly after being exposed to moisture

>>13126604
Err... just like buffalo wings? Fry chicken wings up, coats it in hot sauce and butter. There's a mixture of crispy and the taste of sauce.
Or french fries? Fry up potatoes, dip them in sauces.
>This shit is common

>>13126604
Boomers

>>13127383
I'm not a boomer, I'm a zoomer.

To me, this technique is incredibly inefficient and self-defeating, that's all

>>13126708
>instantantantly

>>13127438
Have you tried not being a faggot and eating it while it's still hot? Ive never had trouble with my saucy pseudo-chink fried chikkenz. Then again, I'm not a self-defeated pussy.

>>13127455
At least you admit that it does get soggy very quickly, thus proving my point.

>>13127472
>things get wet when they get wet
Holy shit anon no way

>>13127438
Frying foods before cooking them again in some other way is a standard techniuque in Chinese cooking. That's just one example.

>>13127472
I'm not sure what your point is. Most foods are meant to be eaten immedietely after cooking for optimum flavor and texture. Soufflees collapse. Sugary foods gather moisture from the air and get sticky. Fried foods lose their texture.

There's nothing "self defeating" about Sesame chicken; it's a crispy food with a sticky sauce. A long shelf life is not its goal.

>>13126618
This is buffet and take-out food. In 99% of cases, it's been sitting on a hot plate for hours.

>>13126604

its not coated to get crispy its coated in cornstarch to tenderize it.

>>13126604
>soggy.pgn
you're actually fucking retarded if your shit's soggy

>>13127438

>self-defeating

if it tastes good, then it is good. Nuff said. Stop making it to be more complicated than it is.

>>13127512
Yeah, do you expect good food from shitty cheap chinese places or something?

>>13127874
Well no. But the point is, unless you make it yourself, it's impossible to "eat it soon after the sauce is put on while it's still crispy." That never happens.

>>13126604
that's because you're eating shitty mall fast food place ones.
like this guy said >>13126618

>>13127903
Literally happens all the time you utter spastic, unironically fucking kill yourself

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>>13127903
Explain how I can go to one of several chinese food places nearby and get crispy sauced food.

>>13126604
its for texture you retard

same as those korean or buffalo chicken wings

>>13127903
retard

I have a bag of frozen orange chicken. What can I do besides serve it with rice?

>>13127903

so in other words its not impossible god i fucking hate americans

>>13130252
M I N D B R O K E N

>>13126604
I don't see the problem

>>13127903
No you order it ala-carte from the damn menu not expecting high quality from some cheap buffet place.
Just like carbonara gets dry if not eaten soon after cooking, you don't get it at a buffet or takeout. You order it from the menu and they make it fresh for you.

I've looked into this extensively.

After cooking the dish to be covered in a sauce, if it's a battered meat, they leave it for a little bit after it has come out of the fryer. This somehow helps with avoiding the batter becoming not crispy.

They also use a mix of flours when making the batter and will likely include a significant proportion of cornflour, and possibly potato starch too.