访谈录 2010-04-02&04-05 你真的认为你会用煎锅么

Hi, I’m Bianca Henry, today’s show food stylist. Welcome to today’s cooking school. Today we are gonna show you a series of pan techniques. You’ve probably heard these terms before: saute, sear, pan fry, deep fry. Maybe you think they are all a little bit alike. No, they are not. There are subtle little differences between them and we are gonna show you what those are right now.

For any kind of oil cooking such as a saute and a sear, you wanna start with pre-heated oil in a hot pan. We got it a little bit of oil in there and that wavy¹ surface will tell you it’s ready to go. We are adding some sliced onions and peppers, gonna keep the food moving and this is called saute. The food is gonna cook quickly, thoroughly² without getting much shape and that’s what you wanna do for that.

Now, alternately, searing involves food in the pan that does not get stirred, does not get moved around. We are sauting a little few scallops here. Once again the pan is hot, the oil is wavy. We are gonna add our scallops and let them sit in one place undisturbed for about two or three minutes while the underside gets nice and crispy coating. And look at the scallops from that plate, that’s what we are aiming for right there. And I promise you, you leave the food alone and this is gonna look like that.

Now moving down the line, we are gonna be doing some pan frying here. You can see there’s a lot more oil in this pan. You get about half an inch of oil in it. We are going to be sort of half frying our food, first on one side then on the other. We are using croquettes that have a crumb³ coating. When you're pan frying food such as fried chicken, croquettes, anything of that nature you want to have a little bit of crumb coating whether it’s bread crumbs⁴, crush cereal such as cornflakes and rice crispies and you wanna gently lower it into the oil. And you get that immediate⁵ sizzle, which is what you want. Once again you gonna let it sit, let the underside get crispy. Let the inside get cooked then we’ll turn them over. Let them cook for another two or three minutes on the other side. And there we have our chicken croquettes completely finished, ready to eat.

Alright moving on to deep frying, everybody knows what deep frying is. You had donuts. You had French fries. Those are deep frying foods. We are gonna be doing vegetable tempura. The main thing about deep frying is you need a thermometer. You don’t need it for any of the others, but you do need it for deep frying. We’ve got a lot of oil in this pan about three inches worth. We wanna the food float freely in the oil and you need to control the temperature of the oil so the food does not get soggy. We’ve got it between 340 and 360. That’s about the constant temperature you wanna keep it in. Gonna dip the food and a little tempura butter. Very gently lower it into the oil you are gonna see the oil start to sizzle, which is a good sign. The food will float to the bottom then quickly to the top and once it gets golden brown, you are ready to take it out. So there you go four pan techniques. You’ve got these pans at home you probably don’t have these techniques and don’t even know it.

Thanks for watching cooking school. I’m Bianca Henry.

 

1 wavy   

adj.有波浪的，多浪的，波浪状的，波动的，不稳定的

参考例句：

• She drew a wavy line under the word.她在这个词的下面画了一条波纹线。
• His wavy hair was too long and flopped just beneath his brow.他的波浪式头发太长了，正好垂在他的眉毛下。

2 thoroughly   

adv.完全地，彻底地，十足地

参考例句：

• The soil must be thoroughly turned over before planting.一定要先把土地深翻一遍再下种。
• The soldiers have been thoroughly instructed in the care of their weapons.士兵们都系统地接受过保护武器的训练。

3 crumb   

n.饼屑，面包屑，小量

参考例句：

• It was the only crumb of comfort he could salvage from the ordeal.这是他从这场磨难里能找到的唯一的少许安慰。
• Ruth nearly choked on the last crumb of her pastry.鲁斯几乎被糕点的最后一块碎屑所噎住。

4 crumbs   

int. (表示惊讶)哎呀 n. 碎屑 名词crumb的复数形式

参考例句：

• She stood up and brushed the crumbs from her sweater. 她站起身掸掉了毛衣上的面包屑。
• Oh crumbs! Is that the time? 啊，天哪！都这会儿啦？

5 immediate   

adj.立即的；直接的，最接近的；紧靠的

参考例句：

• His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
• We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。