Woks ?.

[oldypigeonpopper]

16 minutes ago, samboy said:

Yep. Got a carbon steel one off a mate of mine.

Well done 👍 

[Fargo]

But off piste here but despite the Asians seemingly cooking everything in lot of oil they seem to all be thin and healthy . Even our local takeaway owners are bone thin and smoke like troopers but always seem glowing 

[Poor Shot]

16 minutes ago, Fargo said:

But off piste here but despite the Asians seemingly cooking everything in lot of oil they seem to all be thin and healthy . Even our local takeaway owners are bone thin and smoke like troopers but always seem glowing 

That's because the whole fat = bad thing is a bit of myth and in the USA at least, has been badly smeared by those who have an interest in selling sugar in order for them to be able to continue to sell large quantities of sugar while fat takes the rap for the obesity crisis.

It's all about the amount of calories you consume vs how much you use on a day to day basis. 

That's not to say that all fats are good because they aren't. There is around 9 calories in a single gram of fat so it wouldn't take all that much to send you spiraling over your daily calorific requirements. That being said, it would probably be quite hard to consume 180-200ml of fat when using it to fry meat and vegetables as is traditional in an Asian diet. I would assume that the bulk of the oils used are drained, retained and re-used for the next meal. The fat consumed vs how much is used is probably minimal. 

The Asians you refer to probably move a lot and eat relatively little compared to a general western lifestyle of large periods of inactivity and consumption of lots of processed foods. A Mediterranean diet is broadly similar with lots of olive and nut based oils consumed but with a more active lifestyle and probably smaller/ less portions. In my local takeaway, the workers in the back who do the heavy lifting are lot leaner than the two girls who sit out front taking orders.  

[JohnfromUK]

It is also said that fats that are liquid at room temperature are 'less bad for you' (e.g. the oil types) than those that are solid at room temperature (mostly the animal fats).

How much truth there is in it I don't know, but I generally try and eat no more than needed to make a decent meal!

[Fargo]

5 minutes ago, Poor Shot said:

That's because the whole fat = bad thing is a bit of myth and in the USA at least, has been badly smeared by those who have an interest in selling sugar in order for them to be able to continue to sell large quantities of sugar while fat takes the rap for the obesity crisis.

It's all about the amount of calories you consume vs how much you use on a day to day basis. 

That's not to say that all fats are good because they aren't. There is around 9 calories in a single gram of fat so it wouldn't take all that much to send you spiraling over your daily calorific requirements. That being said, it would probably be quite hard to consume 180-200ml of fat when using it to fry meat and vegetables as is traditional in an Asian diet. I would assume that the bulk of the oils used are drained, retained and re-used for the next meal. The fat consumed vs how much is used is probably minimal. 

The Asians you refer to probably move a lot and eat relatively little compared to a general western lifestyle of large periods of inactivity and consumption of lots of processed foods. A Mediterranean diet is broadly similar with lots of olive and nut based oils consumed but with a more active lifestyle and probably smaller/ less portions. In my local takeaway, the workers in the back who do the heavy lifting are lot leaner than the two girls who sit out front taking orders.  

Very true and whilst living in Croatia once for work the diet there was very much based on unprocessed foods and not so much sugar apart from cakes and natural sugars in fruit.

Uk has a huge obesity problem and very little help or education for it.