American Wok Hei: Stir Frying on an Electric Stove (in a Cast Iron Wok)

To celebrate my YouTube channel surpassing one mllion views, I thought I'd try to show off a kind of cooking that's very popular, has been used for centuries, AND is seen by many people as being more than just cooking: Oriental stir frying. There's a long and traditional form of stir frying in the Far East that's so special, it's actually seen as a kind of spiritualism. In China they call it WOK HEI: the breath of the wok, and when a stir fry is cooked in this tradition, folks even say it gives an energy to the food that's a kind of Qi. Now, whether or not you believe this is "magic," I'll just say that doing a stir fry in the traditional Oriental manner is a LOT of fun, and it gives you some delicious food that tastes far more than just meat and vegetables thrown together in the pan. That's a good reason to give this a try, and see how tasty a well cooked stir fry can be.

This video is especially made for using cast iron on an ELECTRIC stovetop. Most of the stir frying videos on YouTube star a gas stove or grill, but here we present some tips on getting a decent stir fry if you don't have a gas stove in your kitchen. Welcome to 21st century America, where not everyone can cook with gas. :)

Some additional rambling about the mystic art of stir frying can be seen on my Web site, Cast Iron Chaos\, at: http://www.modemac.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/Wok_Hei_-_The_Mystical_Art_of_Stir_Frying

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