Question
Nancy Johnson-Cramer
How do you learn to flip or rotate food in a frypan like chefs do? Do you start with a certain amount or size? Do you practice with cold food?
Answer
And so a good way to practice the flipping technique is to get the pan that you intend to use and you know, maybe there are multiple pans but use a pan that's suitable for sauteing meaning that it has relatively shallow size. Okay, if you use a pan that has sloped sides that will be easiest that facilitates this rotation or flipping process. You've got also pans that have straight sides and it's not impossible to flip food, but it's certainly more challenging. So as you start out, especially my recommend using a pan with sloped sides and get a slice of bread and so a cold pan cold slice of bread and you gonna move the pan forward and give your wrist a flip and sort of move in this rotational manner with your arm and your wrist and you're going to try to flip the edge of the bread that's farthest from you. up and Towards you okay and then let that, you know, you'll put this the pan at an angle to allow the slice of bread to slide away from you and then you're gonna flip it over. Okay, and then repeat that process is much as you need to and I would say at least a hundred times to get started but you know, otherwise as much as you need to to find a rhythm. Okay where you're getting that the pan to move in this rotational manner with the wrist that sort of promotes this flipping action. And you're gonna watch that bread flip over once with each rotation of the pan. Okay, once you do that about a hundred times then graduate to Beans some sort of legume or grains in their uncooked form and just put a a handful in there. Maybe that's a quarter cup, you know, maybe it's a third of a cup something like that the amount can vary and give that a try as well. Okay, and you know your goal is to keep all those beans or grains. In the pan. All right and just keep practicing that until you maintain this rhythm. You're gonna see you're gonna see a flow of beans and Grains like a wave coming in toward the coast for the Surfers. Okay, and it's a beautiful thing and you know, once you get some confidence and that Rhythm down that in some develop some muscle memory then go ahead and and move on to some food that you're actually cooking. Okay, and you keep in mind that lubrication in the form of oil of some sort will make things easier for you, but that's not a requirement. It just makes it easier give that a try and I think you're going to be just fine. Okay. Thank you, Nancy.
