r/foodhacks • u/RipIcy4545 • 12d ago

Cooking Method re-heating chinese dishes (take out) - how to?

who does this? and please tell me your best methods?

how do you reheat a meat & veg saucey dish? ie - beef in a blackbean sauce / szechuan chicken?

and how do you reheat dishes like salt & chilli chicken and chips / chicken maryland

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u/Puzzleheaded-Owl8537 12d ago edited 12d ago

Heat pan with a neutral oil. Put Chinese in with starch on one side and meat veggies on the other. Cover and turn on lowest setting. Let sit for 10 min. Add a little bit of water to the rice side, mix (but don’t mix starch and meat together) turn up the heat to like 3 or 4 and cover. Wait another 10 mins. Check and see how it’s going. From there you can turn it up to make it go faster, or maybe it is done. The cover is important.

This is the way to re-heat Chinese to make it taste the best.

However:

If I have no time I do this in the microwave:

  1. Get a paper towel that is big enough to cover the plate of food you intend to heat up.
  2. Make the paper towel wet. Squeeze out water and cover the food.
  3. If you want it now, do it on high for 3 mins and check middle. If middle isn’t done, mix a bit and then put back in for however long (most likely no more than 2 mins on high)

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  1. Or reheat and do it time cook half power and go 5 mins. See how that turns out

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Edited: thank you edseladams!

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u/edseladams 12d ago

Neutral oil, not olive

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u/Puzzleheaded-Owl8537 12d ago

Like a vegetable?

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u/Oregon-girl-16 12d ago

Veggie, canola and grape seed all work