Your Stir Fry is Missing Baking Soda (Tenderizing & Velveting Beef - 2 ways!) | The Woks of Life

In this video, we're talking all about how to prepare your beef for stir fry—picking out the right cut and using the right velveting technique to achieve the most tender beef. Specifically, we put two methods for velveting beef to the test—one is a "shortcut" method and the other is a "water rinsing" method that restaurants use. Which one do we prefer? More importantly, you be the judge and which one will you use after watching this!

Full post on how to prepare beef for stir fry—with detailed velveting + marinade recipe here!
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0:00 Intro
0:42 What cut of beef is best for stir fry? '
1:42 Two methods for velveting beef
3:00 What is "oil velveting"? / What is "water velveting"?
4:35 How to cut beef for stir fry
5:52 Velveting the beef
8:34 Do you use egg whites to velvet beef?
10:59 Show me the velveted & marinaded beef!
11:38 Searing the beef
13:22 Time for Beef with Broccoli!
15:13 Taste test
18:30 What's the verdict
19:31 Blooper :)

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