Stir-Fry Observations (7th November 2011)

Another delicious night in with Fiona. Timings were measured by the time on my watch.

Estimated Timings

11 mins
Rice
~5 mins
Chicken
~3 mins
Stir-fry veg

Ingredients

250g
Rice (middle right cupboard)
1 pack
Cooked chicken pieces (Tesco or Waitrose)
1 pack
Cooked quorn pieces (Waitrose)
1 pack
Stir-fry veg (Tesco)
2 tablespooks
Ground Nut Oil
1 pour
Stir-fry sauce
¼ sausage dog cup
Cashew nuts
See also:
Recipe for Fiona’s Sauce

Actual Timings

6:45
Boiling 2/3rds kettle.
Frying pan on medium left hob.
Deep wok on big right hob.
6:46
250g Rice for 2 fills a red and white sausage dog cup.
6:47
Kettle has boiled.
Assessing ingredients.
6:50
Prepare Fiona’s sauce.
6:55
Prepare to microwave rice in Pyrex mixing bowl.
Boiled kettle again.
6:57
Added 0.6 pints of boiled water onto rice in mixing bowl.
7:00
Bowl goes into microwave full power 11 minutes.
Cover top with small plate.
7:02
Stir Fry Oil, not quite covering bottom of wok.
7:02
2 tablespoons of Ground Nut Oil, not quite covering bottom of pan.
7:04
Start heating oil for chicken.
Hob is on lowest heat.
7:05
Start heating oil in deep wok.
Stir fry veg pack opened.
7:06
Chicken goes into frying pan.
7:07
Cashew nuts added to deep wok.
7:08
Stir Fry Veg goes into deep wok and is stirred.
Beware, it spits!
Add all the sauce, quite high heat.
7:09
Turn over large pieces of chicken.
7:11
Rice finished in microwave.
7:13
Stir fry veg done!
7:14
Rice served onto plates.
7:15
Veg served.
Chicken served.
7:16
Entertainment started.
Virtual memory lagging…

Extras

1 pack
Quorn something (Tesco)

Recipe for Fiona’s Sauce

This is carried out in a breakfast bowl before anything starts being heated. The stir-fry sauce is separate.

1 tablespoon
Soy sauce
½ tablespoon
Rice vinegar
½ tablespoon
Honey
½ tablespoon
Tomato ketchup

Stir with spoon thoroughly. Now add:

¾ teaspoon
Thai 7 spice

Stir with spoon briefly. Sauce is now ready.

New Timings (31st December 2011)

We cook the chicken for less time, now. Virtual memory is no longer a problem as the old PC has been replaced by my first laptop.

Improving the Rice Overlap (11th January 2012)

Brought forward timings by 4 minutes which come after the rice going into the microwave. This reduces the standing time for the rice and shortens the overall process by approximately 4 minutes.