Cooking Videos — 2026-05-06#

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If you struggle with cooking soggy, oil-logged eggplant at home, you absolutely must watch 陈老师家里的珍藏家常菜【煎烧茄子】，不油不腻，又鲜又香，配米饭可以一大碗！#民间手艺人 #鲁菜老厨陈宗明 #美食 #美食教程 #家常菜 #老手艺 #鲁菜. Chef Chen shares a brilliant, practical home-style technique of scoring the vegetable and coating it in egg wash before pan-frying, perfectly sealing the flesh so it cooks up tender without becoming a greasy sponge.

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On the channel 鲁菜老厨陈宗明, Chef Chen demonstrates a home-style pan-fried and braised eggplant recipe that is an absolute game-changer for your rice bowls. By sealing the crosshatch-scored eggplant in an egg wash, it fries to a golden 70-80% doneness without soaking up excess fat, before being briefly braised with minced pork, scallions, ginger, and garlic. For a deeply refreshing summer dish, check out 再升級！這樣做讓沙拉醬汁更夠味｜魚凍五花肉沙拉 [詹姆士] on 詹姆士官方專屬頻道, where Chef James prepares a bouncy blanched pork belly salad topped with crushed nuts. The standout culinary technique here is creating a savory bonito “fish jelly” (魚凍) using gelatin, which slowly melts in your mouth as you eat to continuously release rich umami flavors into the crisp greens.

Food Science & Tips#

In a clever display of manipulating textures, Chef James uses gelatin to create a savory bonito jelly that stays solid in a cold summer salad but melts precisely at human mouth temperature to extend the duration of the dish’s flavor profile on the palate. Meanwhile, Chef Chen shares a highly effective mechanical tip for notoriously porous vegetables: coating scored eggplant in beaten egg physically fills its empty internal cavities, preventing the flesh from absorbing excess oil during the pan-frying process.

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Beyond the culinary tutorials, Chef James’ video also functions as a detailed equipment showcase for a Japanese refrigerator featuring multiple highly precise temperature zones and an independent ice-making system that prevents flavor transfer. He excitedly notes that this appliance’s unique freezing technology chills meat from the inside out, allowing home cooks to effortlessly slice straight through frozen blocks of pork belly without ever needing to thaw them first.