Seasoning Wok for Sweet & Sour Chicken & Pork

Video Transcript

"My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today I'm going to show you how to make sweet and sour chicken as well as sweet and sour pork. Alright when cooking with the wok you are going to use one setting. That is as hot as you can possibly get it. One of the other things that I forgot to mention is super super important long sleeve shirts. Whenever you are wok cooking I recommend a long sleeve shirt quiet enough. Okay we are taking that oil and salt mixture I had from earlier, we are just going to put it right in the wok. One thing you want to make sure you don't do don't get any water in your oil. What we are doing here we're just going to get the oil all the way near the edge near the wok. When you cook with the wok most of the action is going to happen in the front side of the wok that is when you are flipping everything. So you want to make sure you get that side cause this wok has rivets in it. We want to make sure we get it all the way to the rivets. What we are doing here is by heating the metal we are basically opening up the pores sort of speaking of the metal. Then we are going to scrub the salt into there. This would also burn off any sort of coating you had on the wok. Like if you bought a brand new wok this would also help out. It helps food from sticking to it too. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to dump the oil out. So I will actually kill my heat so I don't burn myself. I do want to leave some of the salt in there though. So do that and just do avoid any confusion, you are not at all going to be cooking with that salt or that oil for that matter. Cause they would not work out really well. So what I'm going to do is take a towel that I don't care too much about. Make sure it is clean and dry. I'm just going to rub this in to the wok. Ideally I might scare you by telling you this, you don't really don't clean your wok. You don't want to ever want to scrub this. You don't want to ever put it in the dish washer. A nice rinse off would do just fine. If you want to clean it, what you would do is burn anything off of it. Get your heat on high, put the wok like this and let it go for a few minutes. What should happen is anything that is in the inside like burned on should burn right off. So what you can do is put a little water, dump it out, wipe it out it is just fine. So that is how to seasoning a wok."