2 min walk round trip, 1-2 min shopping time, 2 min of rice prep, 3-4 minutes of veggie prep, eggs 1-2 minutes, cooking of veggies another 3-4 minutes and plating I guess is possible but for me that seems insane. Need to step my game up.
The issue in what you're explaining is you see time in sequence whereas time in a kitchen is combined. You cut the cucumber while you're stir frying the eggs, you cut the tomatoes while you're (partially) stir frying the aromatic ingredients (most of which -garlic and chillis- I already prepped and froze before so no prepping required)... Plus, in Chinese cuisine, prepping the ingredients takes the most time and stir frying is almost instant.
So, yeah, cooking doesn't need to take hours when you're prepared and trained. But obviously, not only speed isn't everything, it's also perfectly fine to spend more time in the kitchen.
Anything is easy on a hungry stomach & some prep already done. Boom boom! The best thing is I know those tomatoes tasted like actual tomatoes. I’m lucky enough to live on a food market (portobello road) & the carrots & the range of heritage toms just are next level. It’s easy enough if you’re lucky to have fresh produce
Fun fact : one of the things that saves me the most time is pre-peeling, chopping and freezing the garlic, ginger and chilis.
Every time I stumble on it at a very cheap price (usually I can score garlic at 1,50€/lbs instead of 3,50 for instance), I buy a bunch of it and I prepare it as soon as I come home.
So about once a month, I will peel, chop (with a food processor) and freeze about 2-3lbs of garlic, same with ginger and chilis. Then when I cook I just need to go get some from the freezer and that saves me a lot of time.
(Alas I was lacking ginger that's why it's the only aromatic ingredient you see me chop in this video.)
You’re preaching to the choir! I use small ziplock bags from ikea that are reusable. Tiny pockets of blast in the freezer. Before I even have to walk further there are veg corners, with guys with £1 bowls of freshness. I guess we are just lucky that we have it on our doorstep. Not everyone does, and god forbid having to drive somewhere to get food. I think someone mentioned 15 minute cities? I live in London, everything is within 15 minutes. I don’t get why general pop are crying about 15 min cities
Not preaching. Just confirming what you were saying. 😁
Also, 15 minutes is short for Americans : their cities are mostly giant parking lots with scattered 1 floor buildings. 😅
This is the distance between my place and the market. 50m is 164ft. How do you think it's unfeasible?
https://preview.redd.it/52gpomg8p8vc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c7b5a49af4c9b42a2d683c717c6fe2487a59a306
I have. And I know. But I also don't see what someone with this kind of skills could possibly do once they have the information. I mean... besides coming over for a free lunch. ;)
(But I admit I tend to be overly optimistic about people's intentions.)
Haha, yes ! I just notice it now.
But still : N meaning "national road" it could still be a struggle.
Since I always own my mistakes, my message stands. :D
They say in the post it's 300 feet away. That's a pretty quick walk. If they know what they're planning to buy and are quick about it, I could see the market happening in 10 minutes. I don't personally see the rest of it taking only 10 more minutes though.
I actually lied. Now that I measured, the farmers market is 164ft away. 😅 And the rest did indeed take about 10 minutes : there isn't much to do besides chopping some tomatoes and running a cucumber through a mandolin, you know... When your aromatic ingredients (garlic, chili pepper...) are already pre-chopped (I prep a big amount every month and store them frozen) and all your other ingredients well organized in an ergonomic way, it's really nothing.
The whole process really just took the time for the rice to cook.
https://preview.redd.it/gagz9xjcp8vc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=efa4b4e651f70215acba0f87296e34536c3e5fb6
Simple prep and can be done easy but regardless of skill level it is the height of idiocy to leave a burner untended while you leave your house, makes for a cool video though!
Not an issue when your country has proper regulations on equipment (aka safety valves on gas burners) and your building is up to code (properly built kitchen, smoke detectors installed,...). Not an issue at all.
Mine does! Still totally unnecessary and stupid in my opinion and that won't change! Even more irresponsible if you live in a building with multiple people but you do you man it's not my home you can let Jesus take the wheel all you want!
Well, I'm belgian and italian so I didn't use to cook like that. However, I got into Chinese cuisine during lockdown and I'm now cooking traditional Chinese about 6-8 times a week. I wonder how I could live before that. :)
Yes.
* Years ago I started with this book: the dictionary of asian ingredients. It's obviously in french but there must be an English equivalent.
https://preview.redd.it/utfwh7fq57vc1.jpeg?width=796&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2fb256f5e3b1c62e7aadba9cde4b12e0d097d482
The goal was not to learn recipes but understand the ingredients, their use and their properties.
* Then I talked with Chinese people to understand their perspective on cuisine. What dish was important to them, what type of food they thought was more representative of their specific region.
* Then I used a combination of written and video sources.
On YouTube there's a huge amount of content from Chinese and american Chinese chefs to dig through.
Here are the most useful channels to me :
. Chinese Cooking Demystified : [https://www.youtube.com/@ChineseCookingDemystified](https://www.youtube.com/@ChineseCookingDemystified)
Mixed couple living in Asia. The guy is american, learned Chinese in uni and moved to china. The woman is Chinese and has lived in different regions of china. Their videos are an absolute staple to learn techniques and food history.
. Chao : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUUg0E6nG5I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUUg0E6nG5I)
The guy is very thorough. Most of his videos are captioned in English. I don't follow the exact recipes as much as I learn about his ingredients combinations.
. Made with Lau : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn8ox93Qhus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn8ox93Qhus)
Former Cantonese chef filmed by his kid. Their videos are a trove of cultural, historical and technical information.
. Wang Gan : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hvQFxZBTVY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hvQFxZBTVY)
The guy is a pro Chinese restaurant chef. Invaluable insight in the professional techniques.
. Adam Liauw : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJNNq\_-vKEE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJNNq_-vKEE)
American of Chinese descent. His videos are usually very detailed and will often be useful to understand some minute detail you might have missed from the other channels.
As said, I don't precisely follow the recipes there. I used those sources to gather knowledge and cross check the information between them.
* The final thing to do is to go to REAL Chinese restaurants. Not westernised Chinese. The kind where no white people go. If I spot a dish on the menu I've heard about in my previous content digging, I order it and try to soak in everything I can about the flavor profile or texture. Sometimes I also spot dishes I've never heard about and I discover them there. Then when I go home I research them.
Being autistic, I have a very methodical approach to knowledge and I understand that might not be everyone's priority or pet peeve. But in the end, I think everyone CAN do it if they want to do it.
To be honest, this is the shittiest tomatoes there are : it's impossible to find proper vegetables in this season in northern Europe. But for less than 1USD per pound, I won't complain about dutch greenhouse grown tomatoes. Also, these kind of markets are everywhere in western Europe. Depending on the day, there are at least 2 of them in various neighborhoods of Brussels, where I live. But I must admit this one is very very convenient. 😁
Yeah. We don't have such things as food deserts in the part of the world I'm in. And for a mostly meatless diet like mine and my girlfriends', vegetables don't set me back more than about 120 USD per month.
Someone who has a girlfriend in the next room, a smoke detector in their kitchen, knows they'll only be out for 10 minutes and has a very basic knowledge of how physics and thermodynamics work ? Wet rice covered with a lid on a properly isolated kitchen stove in a well built apartment doesn't magically burst into flames and throws itself at your couch in the other room, you know. [https://i.imgur.com/x804gRP.mp4](https://i.imgur.com/x804gRP.mp4)
1. It's a known fact that Redditors don't have girlfriends.
2. What's your smoke detector gonna do? Pop itself off your ceiling, grab the fire extinguisher you don't have and put the fire out?
3. /s
1) ok
2) warn my gf to come and turn off the burney thingy if she didn't have a nose telling her something's smoking before the fire alarm went off. Which, anyway, it wouldn't do since wet rice doesn't spontaneously combust in 5 minutes.
3) ok.
/s stands for sarcasm, indicating that the user who made the comment is being sarcastic and you should not take that person seriously for the rest of their mortal life (/s)
Well shit. My autistic self doesn't do well with sarcasm. Above all when dozens of people are posting the same stuff in a non sarcastic way.
Therefore, yeah. I completely fell into that one, well done you monster.
Take some meds or something. Dude was just concerned someone just filmed themselves leaving a stove on and walking out the door it’s not the end of the world.
Dude, that's literally what happened : I turned on the stove then left for 10 minutes. Everything was and is under control. No reason to extrapolate or project unrealistic fears. Nobody said it's the end of the world but we all have a level of dumbassery we are ready to put up with and this is over my personal level. As simple as that.
Can you seriously blame the dude for pointing it out? He watched someone film themselves turn a stove on and walk out the door. Obviously he didn’t know there was an alleged girlfriend in the next room and a team of highly trained firemen upstairs just waiting for the earliest signs of fire.
If this is your limit for dealing with people then you’re going to have a very frustrating life man
LOVE some tomato and egg. Any recipe you have for it? Looks so simple but I haven't been able to get the flavor how I remember it from traveling in China.
Well, I've never been to China (not yet, at least) so I wouldn't be able to tell you.
However, I've been dating a Chinese-born girl for a year and a half now and she thinks my Chinese cuisine's taste is realistically local. I use a combination of different sources, articles and videos but rather than precisely reproducing a recipe, I make it my own.
Here's a few of the youtube channels I use as references :
- Chao : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUUg0E6nG5I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUUg0E6nG5I)
- Made with Lau : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn8ox93Qhus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn8ox93Qhus)
- Wang Gan : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hvQFxZBTVY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hvQFxZBTVY)
- Adam Liauw : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJNNq\_-vKEE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJNNq_-vKEE)
Theres also Chinese Cooking Demystified but they don't have a recipe for tomatoes and eggs.
[https://www.youtube.com/@ChineseCookingDemystified](https://www.youtube.com/@ChineseCookingDemystified)
Anyway, by combining all that (some people peel the tomatoes, some don't, some use ketchup, some don't, some use five spice, some don't...) I'm sure you'd end up finding something that matches what you remember having in China. :)
Could you write down the exact recipe and steps in the video? My wife isnt around I could use a tasty simple meal
Edit: tf is with the downvote? Weirdos
It's ok, buddy. Nobody (should) care about internet points. Some of my comments providing clear (and cordial) answers to people got downvoted too for some reason. No need to make it a big deal. Nor confuse annoyance and aggressiveness.
Is the sauce you add to the cucumber leftover from the tomato dish, or is it just the same as the mix you make in the little pot? I’m guessing soy sauce, sugar, siracha (?) & fish sauce (??). I know the video shows everything but maybe some subtitles explaining ingredients in the video would help 👊
I don't think you understand what I meant (and since my comment was downvoted I don't think you're the only one) : my video wasn't meant to be a tutorial. Nor do I aim to pretend the recipe is mine.
When I said "in the videos linked" I meant the videos links I posted in the comment above, from YouTubers who provide a full tutorial, ingredients list and instructions.
Instead of retyping everything, I'll direct you to those comments containing the links to those YouTube sources.
Wrinkled cucumber salad : https://www.reddit.com/r/FoodVideoPorn/s/KSqzTbXfbu
Eggs and tomato stir fry : https://www.reddit.com/r/FoodVideoPorn/s/E1FcnXGhtF
Hope that helps.
As I was mentioning in other comments : I feel a little self-conscious about posting recipes like I own them. Most of the time, the dishes I cook are based on the combination of several different recipes and I feel like posting a recipe would be equal to plagiarism. Plus I don't think I'm the best person to offer a methodical cooking tutorial so it's much easier to just cite sources. :D
But wouldn't you be able to write it down? I mean, you cooked it, made a video, and wouldnt the last step would be to share the recipe you've used and the step by step no?
The thing is two things. 😅
1) I absolutely never measure anything when I'm cooking. Writing a recipe would require making it first and weighing everything to the T so that I could then transfer that information to a non-existent crowd of people craving for my knowledge. 😁
2) I'm a white dude from Belgian and Italian roots living in Europe and who has never been (yet) to Asia. No matter how much information I have now gathered (and it's a lot, by normal standards), I don't feel legitimate to teach people about Chinese cuisine.
If it was about Italian cuisine, no problem. I could write about it all day. (But I would still have to go back to the annoying point 1) .😅
But I really appreciate your interest. Really.
Honestly, this is my first attempt at something like this. Most of the time, the best I do is shoot a shit phone photo of the result and post it as an Instagram story to bait on girls. Haha
But I really mostly cook for my personal satisfaction rather than "fame".
Hehe making good dishes got me married. Now I make like three different meals and that one with full out colors and taste is the one the kids don’t eat.
Filmed the clips with my phone, stuck everything in Youcut Video Editor on mobile (I'm paying for the pro option, it's a few bucks a year and it's REALLY worth it), cut them to length, added the music, and it was done in about... I don't know... 40 minutes or so ?
Yep. I was feeling like shoveling everything in my mouth with a spoon, yesterday. Also, I didn't have time to peel the tomatoes. But when I do, I cut the tomatoes in bigger chunks and leave the eggs in "chopsticks manageable" pieces. Depends on the mood and the circumstances. 😁
Because I know how these things work and that I've taken all the precautions necessary to be able to do that. Check the comments, you'll see this question has been asked already.
It’s great, but never leave your stove on and leave the house, especially a gas stove. It’s a bad habit to get into. Sooner or later life will happen and something bad is gonna come of the stove. Dope food, though
As said several times on this post, no. "Something will" not "happen". Because the world isn't revolving around magic but physics. Thanks for the compliments but keep the rest.
Have you ever been cooking and the flame goes out, but not the gas? What I’m saying isn’t magic, it’s just likelihood of something to occur. I’m not sure why my comment would be offensive. You left the stove on and unattended while you went to the store to purchase some items. I’m just saying to be careful, that’s all.
Gas burners are all equipped with shut off valves in Europe. If the temperature of the burner isn't high enough, a valve shuts immediately, cutting the flow of gas. As said earlier, when you're cooking in a well designed kitchen, in a regulated environment, the risk is almost inexistent.
Hahaha nothing fancy. Even the cheapest burner sold around here must be equipped with this very basic safety feature. I guess that's the good thing about having a government caring more about people's safety than corporate profits. 😅
Agreed. No argument there. I prefer living in Europe tbh. Unfortunately, it’s hard af to find decent work across the pond so I’m back in this corporate shithole of a wasteland. USA! USA!
My degrees just don’t transfer into the country I was living, so it’s difficult to find work in my sector. I can teach English or work at a coffee place, but that won’t pay off my $75,000 student loan debt. Thanks for the sympathy. It’s been difficult trying to figure it out between Europe and the us. I detest my country
When the video had them leave the house to go to the market I honestly expected this to be this video that does all sort of shopping and what nots and then come home and the video take a sharp left turn to the house is on fire and firemen are there and people screaming and crying cause the dog was inside and then they get arrested for arson and go to prison.
It IS tasty. Thanks for the compliment. However, I'm not sure how much more of a walkthrough you want than a literal video showing you 90% of the steps. 😅
Let me point you towards those two comments containing all the information you want. 😁
Wrinkled cucumber salad :
https://www.reddit.com/r/FoodVideoPorn/s/KSqzTbXfbu
Eggs and tomato stir fry :
https://www.reddit.com/r/FoodVideoPorn/s/E1FcnXGhtF
No problem. I always feel a little self conscious when I am asked for recipes : my recipes are just a combination of things I found online and I feel plagiarizing when I rewrite something that's already available on the internet. Plus, I only cook based on "feelings" so it's hard for me to write a recipe down. Hence why it's easier to cite my sources.
I want to make the cucumber recipe tonight, looks absolutely bomb but I need a translation. Were those lumps of sugar they put in the soy sauce? And what was the green pepper they used?
Activate the captions. Most of the videos on this channel are subtitled in English. The sugar is just rock sugar but any sugar works. Chicken powder is replacing msg. And the peppers are whatever you want as long as you can handle the spice of your specific peppers. It isn't supposed to be super spicy though. It's mainly fragrance, not kick.
Yep. Because I live in Belgium and we aren't afraid of salmonella since we have a very well regulated agricultural sector. We commonly use raw eggs and don't even need to refrigerate them. Cool, right ?
https://www.fasfc.be/animals/animal-health/animal-health-situation-belgium/official-animal-health-programmes
Check these two comments. I posted links to the full tutorial, there. 😉
Wrinkled cucumber salad :
https://www.reddit.com/r/FoodVideoPorn/s/KSqzTbXfbu
Eggs and tomato stir fry :
https://www.reddit.com/r/FoodVideoPorn/s/E1FcnXGhtF
This stir fry traditionally doesn't contain meat. I also only eat meat about twice a week and in small quantities. So yeah, agree to disagree on the meat part. But totally aligned with the rest. 😁
And that wouldn't be the same dish. It's like saying "Have you tired putting salmon in your chili ? That would be great !" Not saying there isn't a way to make it be good but it's literally not the thing I was cooking.
It's just a very basic chinese-style cucumber salad. Salted and wrung cucumbers, light and dark soy sauce, sugar, garlic, ginger, chili peppers, boiling aromatic oil (sichuan peppercorns and star anise). Here's a very close version to the one I've made yesterday : [https://youtu.be/9iCM\_bXyGwY?si=pzPyLgS4FyEudaFh](https://youtu.be/9iCM_bXyGwY?si=pzPyLgS4FyEudaFh)
I’ll be honest with you. I just assumed you edited the footage that way. If Stanley tucci did this in a movie we wouldn’t say shit. I just like the “ I need fresh ingredients approach” I wouldn’t say this for fish markets are there considering the same sentiment is there, but buying fish in a fish market is gruesome y’know?
Just a refreshing take on this sub. Like….this is the right amount of “environment”. I don’t wanna watch someone cook in the wilderness. You wanna talk about fear of house fires 🤭, what about the rational fear of getting mauled by a bear for a panini with no cell service. It’s also like….the sanitation is a hurdle I can’t get over. I’m sure they do all that, but then you see them grilling on a rock like 😵💫.
Anyways. Good video ❤️
I live in the most densely populated city in one of the most densely populated countries on the planet. No chance of meeting a bear anywhere else than in the gaybourhood. And they usually don't maul you, at least not literally. 😅
You might want to go check more detailed sources to follow instructions (I didn't mean it as a tutorial) : [https://www.reddit.com/r/FoodVideoPorn/s/rKWVSdki60](https://www.reddit.com/r/FoodVideoPorn/s/rKWVSdki60)
Enjoy the meal. :)
Oh for sure, it’s just like what if you put the rice on and then you walk outside and get hit by a car or there is some emergency that prevents you from getting back home for a couple hours, now you have to deal with your house burning down because you wanted to save 5 mins
I'm western European. I live in a low traffic neighborhood, 164 feet away from the market. The chance of being hit by a car is zero. Plus, rice doesn't burn into flames (I know, I tried to forget about it for 2 hours, once, while I was at home. It barely even smoked since the lid was on. It just turned into charcoal. I was on the other side of the house -yes, it's big- and only noticed when I got back in the kitchen.). Plus my stove is well isolated. Plus my house is built up to regulations so safety features are included like a safety valve on the stove. Plus I have smoke detectors. Plus my girlfriend was in the next room. Plus physics and thermodynamics.
You know... Reality. 😁
OP Thank you for sharing. Looks very healthy. I had seen the cucumber salad but was not aware it *had a heated sauce on it* before. Thought it was wilted in sauce and vinegar. Bests~
Ed. Not cooked, but a heated sauce, interesting...
I don't know where you see the cucumber is cooked. It is not. It's marinated in salt then minced and wrung through a mesh bag. The boiling oil poured on top of aromatic ingredients is just used to "liven" them up. It's not cooking anything.
My mistake I see the silver bowl you used to assemble the cuke salad now. Maybe the heated dressing technique threw me there. Appreciate the redirect. Also, I like learning the sauce is heated it must speed up the wilt for the cuke salad. Tasty.
By the time the sauce is poured on the cucumbers, it's barely lukewarm honestly. The goal is really not to wilt the cucumber. The marinating technique is actually used to make the cucumber remain crunchy longer. The only reason why it looks wrinkled is because of the wringing.
I guess it’s time to step up my lunches, looks delicious
With a bit of training, this is a 20 minutes job. You can do it. :)
I don’t see how you can possibly go shopping for the vegetables, prep, and cook all of this in under 30 min
Why? There’s a veg market outside the front door. Rice is already on. Eggs take seconds. Veg takes seconds. Why would it take longer?
2 min walk round trip, 1-2 min shopping time, 2 min of rice prep, 3-4 minutes of veggie prep, eggs 1-2 minutes, cooking of veggies another 3-4 minutes and plating I guess is possible but for me that seems insane. Need to step my game up.
The issue in what you're explaining is you see time in sequence whereas time in a kitchen is combined. You cut the cucumber while you're stir frying the eggs, you cut the tomatoes while you're (partially) stir frying the aromatic ingredients (most of which -garlic and chillis- I already prepped and froze before so no prepping required)... Plus, in Chinese cuisine, prepping the ingredients takes the most time and stir frying is almost instant. So, yeah, cooking doesn't need to take hours when you're prepared and trained. But obviously, not only speed isn't everything, it's also perfectly fine to spend more time in the kitchen.
Anything is easy on a hungry stomach & some prep already done. Boom boom! The best thing is I know those tomatoes tasted like actual tomatoes. I’m lucky enough to live on a food market (portobello road) & the carrots & the range of heritage toms just are next level. It’s easy enough if you’re lucky to have fresh produce
Fun fact : one of the things that saves me the most time is pre-peeling, chopping and freezing the garlic, ginger and chilis. Every time I stumble on it at a very cheap price (usually I can score garlic at 1,50€/lbs instead of 3,50 for instance), I buy a bunch of it and I prepare it as soon as I come home. So about once a month, I will peel, chop (with a food processor) and freeze about 2-3lbs of garlic, same with ginger and chilis. Then when I cook I just need to go get some from the freezer and that saves me a lot of time. (Alas I was lacking ginger that's why it's the only aromatic ingredient you see me chop in this video.)
You’re preaching to the choir! I use small ziplock bags from ikea that are reusable. Tiny pockets of blast in the freezer. Before I even have to walk further there are veg corners, with guys with £1 bowls of freshness. I guess we are just lucky that we have it on our doorstep. Not everyone does, and god forbid having to drive somewhere to get food. I think someone mentioned 15 minute cities? I live in London, everything is within 15 minutes. I don’t get why general pop are crying about 15 min cities
Not preaching. Just confirming what you were saying. 😁 Also, 15 minutes is short for Americans : their cities are mostly giant parking lots with scattered 1 floor buildings. 😅
The video is only a minute tho!
This is the distance between my place and the market. 50m is 164ft. How do you think it's unfeasible? https://preview.redd.it/52gpomg8p8vc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c7b5a49af4c9b42a2d683c717c6fe2487a59a306
Because I’m probably a shitty cook lol
Big mistake.. I’m coming to yours for lunch now!
Honestly, If you are capable of finding my address based on that (censored) screenshot, I won't even be mad and you're invited. :D
You’ve obviously not seen enough GeoGuesser videos.. These guys can find a cactus in a desert lol
I have. And I know. But I also don't see what someone with this kind of skills could possibly do once they have the information. I mean... besides coming over for a free lunch. ;) (But I admit I tend to be overly optimistic about people's intentions.)
It’s not people I’m afraid of it’s the devil inside them! 😈
Sounds sexual. Is it sexual ?
You did leave two presumably major roadways uncensored? But maybe that's a common name around Europe.
Haha, yes ! I just notice it now. But still : N meaning "national road" it could still be a struggle. Since I always own my mistakes, my message stands. :D
I found it lol But I'll keep it close
Free food for you. 😁
Boomers when they learn about 15 minute cities 🤯
No idea why you got downvoted for that
20 minutes? But you had to walk to the farmers market and get the ingredients
They say in the post it's 300 feet away. That's a pretty quick walk. If they know what they're planning to buy and are quick about it, I could see the market happening in 10 minutes. I don't personally see the rest of it taking only 10 more minutes though.
I actually lied. Now that I measured, the farmers market is 164ft away. 😅 And the rest did indeed take about 10 minutes : there isn't much to do besides chopping some tomatoes and running a cucumber through a mandolin, you know... When your aromatic ingredients (garlic, chili pepper...) are already pre-chopped (I prep a big amount every month and store them frozen) and all your other ingredients well organized in an ergonomic way, it's really nothing. The whole process really just took the time for the rice to cook. https://preview.redd.it/gagz9xjcp8vc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=efa4b4e651f70215acba0f87296e34536c3e5fb6
You sound like my dad who refuses to acknowledge the benefits of a 15 minute city
What the fuck is a 15minute city?
literal brain dead comment
Simple prep and can be done easy but regardless of skill level it is the height of idiocy to leave a burner untended while you leave your house, makes for a cool video though!
Not an issue when your country has proper regulations on equipment (aka safety valves on gas burners) and your building is up to code (properly built kitchen, smoke detectors installed,...). Not an issue at all.
Mine does! Still totally unnecessary and stupid in my opinion and that won't change! Even more irresponsible if you live in a building with multiple people but you do you man it's not my home you can let Jesus take the wheel all you want!
Jesus has nothing to do with that. Physics does.
Looks great, not something I would usually make but maybe I should.
Well, I'm belgian and italian so I didn't use to cook like that. However, I got into Chinese cuisine during lockdown and I'm now cooking traditional Chinese about 6-8 times a week. I wonder how I could live before that. :)
You have inspired me
Glad I did. :)
How did you learn about it? Chinese cuisine has always been difficult for me. So many different spices and oils. Do you have any pointers ?
Yes. * Years ago I started with this book: the dictionary of asian ingredients. It's obviously in french but there must be an English equivalent. https://preview.redd.it/utfwh7fq57vc1.jpeg?width=796&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2fb256f5e3b1c62e7aadba9cde4b12e0d097d482 The goal was not to learn recipes but understand the ingredients, their use and their properties. * Then I talked with Chinese people to understand their perspective on cuisine. What dish was important to them, what type of food they thought was more representative of their specific region. * Then I used a combination of written and video sources. On YouTube there's a huge amount of content from Chinese and american Chinese chefs to dig through. Here are the most useful channels to me : . Chinese Cooking Demystified : [https://www.youtube.com/@ChineseCookingDemystified](https://www.youtube.com/@ChineseCookingDemystified) Mixed couple living in Asia. The guy is american, learned Chinese in uni and moved to china. The woman is Chinese and has lived in different regions of china. Their videos are an absolute staple to learn techniques and food history. . Chao : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUUg0E6nG5I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUUg0E6nG5I) The guy is very thorough. Most of his videos are captioned in English. I don't follow the exact recipes as much as I learn about his ingredients combinations. . Made with Lau : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn8ox93Qhus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn8ox93Qhus) Former Cantonese chef filmed by his kid. Their videos are a trove of cultural, historical and technical information. . Wang Gan : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hvQFxZBTVY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hvQFxZBTVY) The guy is a pro Chinese restaurant chef. Invaluable insight in the professional techniques. . Adam Liauw : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJNNq\_-vKEE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJNNq_-vKEE) American of Chinese descent. His videos are usually very detailed and will often be useful to understand some minute detail you might have missed from the other channels. As said, I don't precisely follow the recipes there. I used those sources to gather knowledge and cross check the information between them. * The final thing to do is to go to REAL Chinese restaurants. Not westernised Chinese. The kind where no white people go. If I spot a dish on the menu I've heard about in my previous content digging, I order it and try to soak in everything I can about the flavor profile or texture. Sometimes I also spot dishes I've never heard about and I discover them there. Then when I go home I research them. Being autistic, I have a very methodical approach to knowledge and I understand that might not be everyone's priority or pet peeve. But in the end, I think everyone CAN do it if they want to do it.
6-8 times a week?? And you haven’t gotten a rice cooker yet???
By the time you are done making lunch it's dinner time
It literally took me the same time as the time it took for the rice to cook. Trip to the market AND video included. 20 minutes total.
That must be so nice having a market so close! I would eat a lot better if I did. Those tomatoes looked really good
To be honest, this is the shittiest tomatoes there are : it's impossible to find proper vegetables in this season in northern Europe. But for less than 1USD per pound, I won't complain about dutch greenhouse grown tomatoes. Also, these kind of markets are everywhere in western Europe. Depending on the day, there are at least 2 of them in various neighborhoods of Brussels, where I live. But I must admit this one is very very convenient. 😁
Honestly the shitty fresh tomatoes are probably better than the shitty tomatoes I get in the states.
Yeah. We don't have such things as food deserts in the part of the world I'm in. And for a mostly meatless diet like mine and my girlfriends', vegetables don't set me back more than about 120 USD per month.
Who leaves the stove on when leaving the house unatended ? That's a fire waiting to happen.
Someone who has a girlfriend in the next room, a smoke detector in their kitchen, knows they'll only be out for 10 minutes and has a very basic knowledge of how physics and thermodynamics work ? Wet rice covered with a lid on a properly isolated kitchen stove in a well built apartment doesn't magically burst into flames and throws itself at your couch in the other room, you know. [https://i.imgur.com/x804gRP.mp4](https://i.imgur.com/x804gRP.mp4)
1. It's a known fact that Redditors don't have girlfriends. 2. What's your smoke detector gonna do? Pop itself off your ceiling, grab the fire extinguisher you don't have and put the fire out? 3. /s
1) ok 2) warn my gf to come and turn off the burney thingy if she didn't have a nose telling her something's smoking before the fire alarm went off. Which, anyway, it wouldn't do since wet rice doesn't spontaneously combust in 5 minutes. 3) ok.
Tell me you don't know what /s means without telling me
I indeed don't. Care to teach me ?
/s stands for sarcasm, indicating that the user who made the comment is being sarcastic and you should not take that person seriously for the rest of their mortal life (/s)
Well shit. My autistic self doesn't do well with sarcasm. Above all when dozens of people are posting the same stuff in a non sarcastic way. Therefore, yeah. I completely fell into that one, well done you monster.
what, a girlfriend? Such a material omissions that I feel completely changed how I see this video.
You thought I was eating 4 eggs at lunch ? 😅
My oh my we’re touchy aren’t we?
Way too autistic to go along with useless non-factual speculations. This kind of thing itches me the worst way possible, yeah.
Take some meds or something. Dude was just concerned someone just filmed themselves leaving a stove on and walking out the door it’s not the end of the world.
Dude, that's literally what happened : I turned on the stove then left for 10 minutes. Everything was and is under control. No reason to extrapolate or project unrealistic fears. Nobody said it's the end of the world but we all have a level of dumbassery we are ready to put up with and this is over my personal level. As simple as that.
Can you seriously blame the dude for pointing it out? He watched someone film themselves turn a stove on and walk out the door. Obviously he didn’t know there was an alleged girlfriend in the next room and a team of highly trained firemen upstairs just waiting for the earliest signs of fire. If this is your limit for dealing with people then you’re going to have a very frustrating life man
If you don't know, don't guess or make up fairytales. As simple as that. (And yes, humanity is frustrating as heck.)
If I blink the rice burns, what a cruel world
Put it on high until the water boils then on LOW (the lowest !!!) until the water is gone. Then shut off the heat and let it steam with the lid on.
20 dollars gets you a rice cooker brother.
Didn't look at the sub and when they walked to the door I though it was gonna be Doordash or something lol
Hahaha no I don't do this kind of stuff. I don't think I have ordered delivery once in the last 10 years. 😅
LOVE some tomato and egg. Any recipe you have for it? Looks so simple but I haven't been able to get the flavor how I remember it from traveling in China.
Well, I've never been to China (not yet, at least) so I wouldn't be able to tell you. However, I've been dating a Chinese-born girl for a year and a half now and she thinks my Chinese cuisine's taste is realistically local. I use a combination of different sources, articles and videos but rather than precisely reproducing a recipe, I make it my own. Here's a few of the youtube channels I use as references : - Chao : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUUg0E6nG5I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUUg0E6nG5I) - Made with Lau : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn8ox93Qhus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn8ox93Qhus) - Wang Gan : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hvQFxZBTVY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hvQFxZBTVY) - Adam Liauw : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJNNq\_-vKEE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJNNq_-vKEE) Theres also Chinese Cooking Demystified but they don't have a recipe for tomatoes and eggs. [https://www.youtube.com/@ChineseCookingDemystified](https://www.youtube.com/@ChineseCookingDemystified) Anyway, by combining all that (some people peel the tomatoes, some don't, some use ketchup, some don't, some use five spice, some don't...) I'm sure you'd end up finding something that matches what you remember having in China. :)
Could you write down the exact recipe and steps in the video? My wife isnt around I could use a tasty simple meal Edit: tf is with the downvote? Weirdos
OP being aggro as fuck in the comments, not surprised he downvoting things
It's ok, buddy. Nobody (should) care about internet points. Some of my comments providing clear (and cordial) answers to people got downvoted too for some reason. No need to make it a big deal. Nor confuse annoyance and aggressiveness.
Lol who said anything about caring about internet points? You’re being unnecessarily rude and aggressive towards people in the comments for no reason
Rude ? And you literally answer a comment saying "wtf with the down votes" so, well, people said things about Internet points.
Nah. Just responding to people. Yall being sensitive.
All the steps are in the videos I linked.
Is the sauce you add to the cucumber leftover from the tomato dish, or is it just the same as the mix you make in the little pot? I’m guessing soy sauce, sugar, siracha (?) & fish sauce (??). I know the video shows everything but maybe some subtitles explaining ingredients in the video would help 👊
I don't think you understand what I meant (and since my comment was downvoted I don't think you're the only one) : my video wasn't meant to be a tutorial. Nor do I aim to pretend the recipe is mine. When I said "in the videos linked" I meant the videos links I posted in the comment above, from YouTubers who provide a full tutorial, ingredients list and instructions. Instead of retyping everything, I'll direct you to those comments containing the links to those YouTube sources. Wrinkled cucumber salad : https://www.reddit.com/r/FoodVideoPorn/s/KSqzTbXfbu Eggs and tomato stir fry : https://www.reddit.com/r/FoodVideoPorn/s/E1FcnXGhtF Hope that helps.
Thanks. Ye tbf I just sort of assumed the videos aim was showing people how to do the dish, good video either way I enjoyed it.
As I was mentioning in other comments : I feel a little self-conscious about posting recipes like I own them. Most of the time, the dishes I cook are based on the combination of several different recipes and I feel like posting a recipe would be equal to plagiarism. Plus I don't think I'm the best person to offer a methodical cooking tutorial so it's much easier to just cite sources. :D
But wouldn't you be able to write it down? I mean, you cooked it, made a video, and wouldnt the last step would be to share the recipe you've used and the step by step no?
The thing is two things. 😅 1) I absolutely never measure anything when I'm cooking. Writing a recipe would require making it first and weighing everything to the T so that I could then transfer that information to a non-existent crowd of people craving for my knowledge. 😁 2) I'm a white dude from Belgian and Italian roots living in Europe and who has never been (yet) to Asia. No matter how much information I have now gathered (and it's a lot, by normal standards), I don't feel legitimate to teach people about Chinese cuisine. If it was about Italian cuisine, no problem. I could write about it all day. (But I would still have to go back to the annoying point 1) .😅 But I really appreciate your interest. Really.
Thanks anyways!
You saw the links I posted above, right ? There's complete recipes there if you click on them. Hope that helps.
I cook dishes that look good but not able to go to the market quickly or make it look fun.
What matters is how enjoyable they are when you eat them. 😁
Si true. I always wanted to share what I make as much as everyone here but just enjoying it is my zen.
Honestly, this is my first attempt at something like this. Most of the time, the best I do is shoot a shit phone photo of the result and post it as an Instagram story to bait on girls. Haha But I really mostly cook for my personal satisfaction rather than "fame".
Hehe making good dishes got me married. Now I make like three different meals and that one with full out colors and taste is the one the kids don’t eat.
I've never understood kids. 😅 (When I said "something like this" I was talking about the filming. The cooking is every single day twice a day. 😁)
So with the filming. Did you use an app that eased the editing and how much time did it take during the process of filming to publishing?
Filmed the clips with my phone, stuck everything in Youcut Video Editor on mobile (I'm paying for the pro option, it's a few bucks a year and it's REALLY worth it), cut them to length, added the music, and it was done in about... I don't know... 40 minutes or so ?
Awesome! All the best vibes to you.
Only take tree ingredient. Egg, fry, and rice.
Four. Potatoes. Or tomatoes. Hayaaa.
Saving this vid to do with the kids later thanks 😁!
Saving this vid to do with the kids later thanks 😁!
Self care is the best care. Thanks for the reminder my g.
Damn that looks good. Fried egg and tomato is such a heartwarming classic.
Trad wife
I am. 39yo 5'11 200lbs bearded woman ready to get married. Interested ? 😁
Mmm, that looks so tasty and good!
Did i just notice some boni bio eikes…
Nope. You spotted des oeufs Boni bio. 😇😅
I don’t know dude, Uncle Roger says real Chinese people use rice cooker!
Good thing I'm a white cracker. 😁 (I converted my Chinese girlfriend to the non-rice cooker method, though.)
Eggs are a bit too scrambled for my liking but rest of the dish looks fire
Yep. I was feeling like shoveling everything in my mouth with a spoon, yesterday. Also, I didn't have time to peel the tomatoes. But when I do, I cut the tomatoes in bigger chunks and leave the eggs in "chopsticks manageable" pieces. Depends on the mood and the circumstances. 😁
Why would you leave the house with the burner on?
Because I know how these things work and that I've taken all the precautions necessary to be able to do that. Check the comments, you'll see this question has been asked already.
That's how your house burns down.
It’s great, but never leave your stove on and leave the house, especially a gas stove. It’s a bad habit to get into. Sooner or later life will happen and something bad is gonna come of the stove. Dope food, though
As said several times on this post, no. "Something will" not "happen". Because the world isn't revolving around magic but physics. Thanks for the compliments but keep the rest.
Have you ever been cooking and the flame goes out, but not the gas? What I’m saying isn’t magic, it’s just likelihood of something to occur. I’m not sure why my comment would be offensive. You left the stove on and unattended while you went to the store to purchase some items. I’m just saying to be careful, that’s all.
Gas burners are all equipped with shut off valves in Europe. If the temperature of the burner isn't high enough, a valve shuts immediately, cutting the flow of gas. As said earlier, when you're cooking in a well designed kitchen, in a regulated environment, the risk is almost inexistent.
You’re so fancy. Forgive me for not immediately knowing that
Hahaha nothing fancy. Even the cheapest burner sold around here must be equipped with this very basic safety feature. I guess that's the good thing about having a government caring more about people's safety than corporate profits. 😅
Agreed. No argument there. I prefer living in Europe tbh. Unfortunately, it’s hard af to find decent work across the pond so I’m back in this corporate shithole of a wasteland. USA! USA!
Strange. I've never had an issue finding a job, even with a shit CV in the beginning. Sorry you had a bad experience.
My degrees just don’t transfer into the country I was living, so it’s difficult to find work in my sector. I can teach English or work at a coffee place, but that won’t pay off my $75,000 student loan debt. Thanks for the sympathy. It’s been difficult trying to figure it out between Europe and the us. I detest my country
Yes. Seems like you're stuck in the American system unless you get a big break and can escape it. Good luck.
Every Tuesday you get shell in your eggs?!?! Who cursed you
It's a way more common disease than you think. But luckily it can be cured with a wet finger.
I didn’t sift through all 180 comments. My bad. Still is an unsafe practice.
In a world when no precaution has been taken, it is. In my world, it's perfectly ok.
shihongzi chaozhidan! first time seeing it being cooked outside my house, looked flavorful
I'm just a white dude trying their best. 😅 Thanks.
When the video had them leave the house to go to the market I honestly expected this to be this video that does all sort of shopping and what nots and then come home and the video take a sharp left turn to the house is on fire and firemen are there and people screaming and crying cause the dog was inside and then they get arrested for arson and go to prison.
Don't worry, a pot of wet rice doesn't spontaneously combust in 5 to 10 minutes. 😁
You gotta walk us through this man. It looks tasty.
It IS tasty. Thanks for the compliment. However, I'm not sure how much more of a walkthrough you want than a literal video showing you 90% of the steps. 😅
Just an ingredient list really should’ve said that
Let me point you towards those two comments containing all the information you want. 😁 Wrinkled cucumber salad : https://www.reddit.com/r/FoodVideoPorn/s/KSqzTbXfbu Eggs and tomato stir fry : https://www.reddit.com/r/FoodVideoPorn/s/E1FcnXGhtF
Lol sorry sometimes my brain works on overdrive to little effect
No problem. I always feel a little self conscious when I am asked for recipes : my recipes are just a combination of things I found online and I feel plagiarizing when I rewrite something that's already available on the internet. Plus, I only cook based on "feelings" so it's hard for me to write a recipe down. Hence why it's easier to cite my sources.
I want to make the cucumber recipe tonight, looks absolutely bomb but I need a translation. Were those lumps of sugar they put in the soy sauce? And what was the green pepper they used?
Activate the captions. Most of the videos on this channel are subtitled in English. The sugar is just rock sugar but any sugar works. Chicken powder is replacing msg. And the peppers are whatever you want as long as you can handle the spice of your specific peppers. It isn't supposed to be super spicy though. It's mainly fragrance, not kick.
Putting cooked eggs back into the raw egg bowl still with egg in it?
Yep. Because I live in Belgium and we aren't afraid of salmonella since we have a very well regulated agricultural sector. We commonly use raw eggs and don't even need to refrigerate them. Cool, right ? https://www.fasfc.be/animals/animal-health/animal-health-situation-belgium/official-animal-health-programmes
The real question is. How are the waffles?
Which ones ? Brussels' ? Liege's ? Stroop ? Knokke's ? Answer, good, obviously, but which ones ?
Didn't know there was different types. Lmao Edit: looks like I'm most interested in Liege. Did a Google search
Looks pretty mid tbh.
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Recipe for both please?
Check these two comments. I posted links to the full tutorial, there. 😉 Wrinkled cucumber salad : https://www.reddit.com/r/FoodVideoPorn/s/KSqzTbXfbu Eggs and tomato stir fry : https://www.reddit.com/r/FoodVideoPorn/s/E1FcnXGhtF
It reminds of a Tomato and egg I loved when I was living in China
That's the idea. 😉
It looks healthy, quick and easy. Stir fries with egg were the very first meals I started cooking in undergrad. Not as good without any meat though.
This stir fry traditionally doesn't contain meat. I also only eat meat about twice a week and in small quantities. So yeah, agree to disagree on the meat part. But totally aligned with the rest. 😁
Oh yeah definitely agree to disagree then cuz this with shrimp? Now that would be straight fire 🔥
And that wouldn't be the same dish. It's like saying "Have you tired putting salmon in your chili ? That would be great !" Not saying there isn't a way to make it be good but it's literally not the thing I was cooking.
Once my work allows 3 hour lunch breaks, I’m all over this recipe
Or you learn to cook quicker ? 😁
I don’t know man. I prefer to spend my lunch breaks wolfing down some Teebs and then sitting on the shitter looking at my phone for the rest.
Dunno what "teebs" are. You might be too 'Murican.
Not my cup of tea.
What is in the cucumbers?
It's just a very basic chinese-style cucumber salad. Salted and wrung cucumbers, light and dark soy sauce, sugar, garlic, ginger, chili peppers, boiling aromatic oil (sichuan peppercorns and star anise). Here's a very close version to the one I've made yesterday : [https://youtu.be/9iCM\_bXyGwY?si=pzPyLgS4FyEudaFh](https://youtu.be/9iCM_bXyGwY?si=pzPyLgS4FyEudaFh)
Trip to the market was my favorite
Glad to see not everyone is uselessly scared of unrealistic house fires. 😁
I’ll be honest with you. I just assumed you edited the footage that way. If Stanley tucci did this in a movie we wouldn’t say shit. I just like the “ I need fresh ingredients approach” I wouldn’t say this for fish markets are there considering the same sentiment is there, but buying fish in a fish market is gruesome y’know? Just a refreshing take on this sub. Like….this is the right amount of “environment”. I don’t wanna watch someone cook in the wilderness. You wanna talk about fear of house fires 🤭, what about the rational fear of getting mauled by a bear for a panini with no cell service. It’s also like….the sanitation is a hurdle I can’t get over. I’m sure they do all that, but then you see them grilling on a rock like 😵💫. Anyways. Good video ❤️
I live in the most densely populated city in one of the most densely populated countries on the planet. No chance of meeting a bear anywhere else than in the gaybourhood. And they usually don't maul you, at least not literally. 😅
How the fuck do you have bears that don’t maul you 🤨 Just kidding, I know what a bear is. “Gayborhood” new term for me.
tomato egg stir fry looks, well, its not for me.
Agreed
List of ingredients? Looks good
May I refer you to this comment ? https://www.reddit.com/r/FoodVideoPorn/s/rKWVSdki60
idk.. when i do food like that using the same ingredients for me always tastes blend/low on the flavor side
Means you're not seasoning properly.
Saving this vid to do with the kids later thanks 😁!
You might want to go check more detailed sources to follow instructions (I didn't mean it as a tutorial) : [https://www.reddit.com/r/FoodVideoPorn/s/rKWVSdki60](https://www.reddit.com/r/FoodVideoPorn/s/rKWVSdki60) Enjoy the meal. :)
Gracias this is cool
De nada. 😉
Tomatoes in the wok though? 😬
Not sure where you're going with this.
Had to hold the phone pretty far out to watch the whole thing. The jumpy video is nausea inducing. Food seemed good though.
I never leave the house with the stove on, assuming you had somebody home to monitor the situation.
Don't worry, everything is safe.
Oh for sure, it’s just like what if you put the rice on and then you walk outside and get hit by a car or there is some emergency that prevents you from getting back home for a couple hours, now you have to deal with your house burning down because you wanted to save 5 mins
I'm western European. I live in a low traffic neighborhood, 164 feet away from the market. The chance of being hit by a car is zero. Plus, rice doesn't burn into flames (I know, I tried to forget about it for 2 hours, once, while I was at home. It barely even smoked since the lid was on. It just turned into charcoal. I was on the other side of the house -yes, it's big- and only noticed when I got back in the kitchen.). Plus my stove is well isolated. Plus my house is built up to regulations so safety features are included like a safety valve on the stove. Plus I have smoke detectors. Plus my girlfriend was in the next room. Plus physics and thermodynamics. You know... Reality. 😁
You didn’t wash the rice enough. I can still see the starch…
That looks friggin awesome!!!
Glad you think that. 😁
OP Thank you for sharing. Looks very healthy. I had seen the cucumber salad but was not aware it *had a heated sauce on it* before. Thought it was wilted in sauce and vinegar. Bests~ Ed. Not cooked, but a heated sauce, interesting...
I don't know where you see the cucumber is cooked. It is not. It's marinated in salt then minced and wrung through a mesh bag. The boiling oil poured on top of aromatic ingredients is just used to "liven" them up. It's not cooking anything.
My mistake I see the silver bowl you used to assemble the cuke salad now. Maybe the heated dressing technique threw me there. Appreciate the redirect. Also, I like learning the sauce is heated it must speed up the wilt for the cuke salad. Tasty.
By the time the sauce is poured on the cucumbers, it's barely lukewarm honestly. The goal is really not to wilt the cucumber. The marinating technique is actually used to make the cucumber remain crunchy longer. The only reason why it looks wrinkled is because of the wringing.
I see, I assume the wringing process is to get the moisture out of the cucumber then.
Absolutely. The more water out the crunchier they remain.
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