Haldi

Hey, who enhanced the title of the thread I opened and named? It's an improvement, actually, so I don't mind.

This business of very high heat and seemingly no smoke from oil, etc must be very easy to suss out:

oil - many of us use exactly the same oil, i.e. vegetable oil

heat - most of our cookers produce a lot less heat than a BIR, so they should produce less heat and less smoke

pans - this is the only remaining variable if there is one. We need to make sure we are using the same size pans as they are, with the same metal type and metal thickness, for both base and sides. Best to get exactly the same brand and model.

It can't be anything else! Minor coatings on the pan, built up over months wouldn't make hardly any difference to something like the smoking point of oil. Moreover if vegetable oil reaches a certain (known, predetermined) temperature it WILL smoke.

Regards
George

One other thing I noticed at the takeaways
The pans are only washed with water
No washing up liquid used
Maybe some sort of coating does build up

Quote from: onion on March 28, 2007, 11:16 AM
I use one of these hi flame burners from Nisbets, it is fantastic, it is available in both propane and natural gas versions. It is very high power and pan recovery times are fast, great for Chinese as well.
I have adapted one of my kitchen cabinets so it fits level with the worktop.

Hi Onion
I'm having difficulty finding this on the net
Can you point me in theright direction?
Is this a double ring burner?

Quote from: haldi on March 30, 2007, 08:03 AM

Quote from: onion on March 28, 2007, 11:16 AM

Hi Onion
I'm having difficulty finding this on the net
Can you point me in theright direction?
Is this a double ring burner?

Hi Haldi

Here is the link http://www.nisbets.co.uk/products/ProductDetail.asp?productCode=L492

Onion

Quote from: George on March 29, 2007, 10:22 AM
Haldi

Hey, who enhanced the title of the thread I opened and named? It's an improvement, actually.

I disagree that it's an improvement, George, but the thread did lose it's direction somewhat. It has become one of those Chinese whispers.

As interesting as the burner debate is it doesn't bear much relevance to the "why does this forum exist" - lambasting of KD which, I admit,  had run its course. Maybe a new thread should be started to save confusion - anybody clicking on the thread for the first time now is going to find it a little confusing.

Col