Cooking Tips & Oriental Recipes from Jeremy Pang (2024)

FAQs

How to cook food quickly? ›

Stir frying (Chinese: 炒; pinyin: chǎo; Wade–Giles: ch'ao³; Cantonese Yale: cháau) is a cooking technique in which ingredients are fried in a small amount of very hot oil while being stirred or tossed in a wok. The technique originated in China and in recent centuries has spread into other parts of Asia and the West.

So many different oils, the good news is you can stick with what you know – canola is great! The best oils for stir frys are the oils with the higher smoke points. These tend to be the “thinner” oils such as peanut, grapeseed or canola.

Marshmallows. "The best thing for someone getting into baking to make: marshmallows," says pastry chef Stella Parks of BraveTart.com. "You mix corn syrup, sugar, and water and boil it to about 250 degrees, which makes it firmer.

Techniques for Quick Cooking

Methods of this cooking technique include airfrying, deep-frying, baking, roasting, grilling, sauteing, searing, stir-frying and microwaving. Moist-heat cooking calls for liquids, such as water or steam, to transfer heat to the food.

Which method of cooking is faster? ›

The correct answer is an Increase in the boiling point of water. Foods cook much faster with pressure cooking than with other methods. Food is cooked more quickly in a pressure cooker because, at the higher pressure (1 bar/15 psi), the boiling point of water rises from 100 °C (212 °F) to 121 °C (250 °F).

​Food cooks faster in a pressure cooker. Its because the pressure increases inside the cooker, which also increases the boiling point of water. ​So, more heat is required to reach the boiling point and is sufficient to cook food in a reduced time.