/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Use more msg

>>15720731
The real secret that I learned after many years of trying to make Chinese food at home, is that Chinese restaurants use special high heat burners, capable of reaching 600-700 degrees. All the stir fried or just fried dishes are being cooked in this heat, which gives the food a smokey flavor you can't duplicate at home. So basically, I can make really good Chinese food for it being homemade, but still can't match my favorite dishes from my favorite restaurants.

tl:dr the Chinese will always win in the end

>>15720731
Use more sugar

>>15720731
you probably arent using the right meats

>>15720733
Unironically this
>>15720754
Can't hurt either.

>>15720731
Chinese takeout is a step below Taco Bell. Why would anyone voluntarily eat it when stuff like Korean, Thai, and Mongolian exists

>>15720733
This is actually the answer.
>>15720752
While this is true, that's probably not what OP is talking about.

>>15720855
What I remember as chinese food growing up as a young kid in Hong Kong

>turtle/shark fin soup
>fried chicken feet
>pig uterus noodles
>fried rice with pork knuckle gristle
>unidentifed fish balls on a stick
>boiled dog meat
>one time, monkey brains

Americans have no idea how bad it really is. No one in china knows what the fuck beef and broccoli is or sweet and sour pork. Chinese food is disgusting. Literally the worst parts to eat of any animal. Makes sense because chinks are the race of humans closest to animals. They make disgusting noises when they eat, slurp everything, men in the streets lift their fucking wife beaters over their sweaty stomachs while laughing and chewing with their mouths full of food. Like what kind of idiot decided 2 sticks is the most practical way to eat grains of fucking rice. Starving Nigerians who eat grass have a better diet than the average chinese.

>>15720733
This and also try more sugar and shittier ingredients while yr at it

>>15720920
nice copynoodles

>>15720752
Induction cooktops with boost go hot as hell. Decent gas cooktops too

>>15720855
Because you're getting crap Chinese food. You're from Idaho or something. I'm from San Francisco where shit gets real.

>>15720752
Blasting your food with a propane torch while cooking can recreate some of this effect according to soy Kenji cuckfaggot

>>15720956
They don't go jet engine hot though, have you seen the cooker he's talking about? They're violent

>>15720752
That's true. My dad used to do sanitary control for the state back in his twenties.
One control took place at the Chinese restaurant of the Hilton hotel in Geneva.
While it was mostly clean he found out the Chinese cooks had rigged the friers to go above the limits. Which is both dangerous for fire risks and health risks since apparently at such heats the oil forms complex molecules dangerous for humans or whatever.
The walls were also plastered with evaporated oil because of that.

>>15721000
wow, the asshole better-than-you coastal fuckface is a real thing.

>>15720731
I started following the channel Souped Up Recipes, she has a lot of techniques to make anywhere from authentic chinese food to american style takeout.

I find the key is prepping/marinating the meats properly. If you don't velvet the beef it comes out completely different.

>>15720752
This is the real answer. Everything else here that isn't this or MSG is bullshit. The chinks' insane fucking burners elevate woks/stir fry to another level.