How To Keep Meat Juicy With Science

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Velvet chicken with snap peas and lemon-ginger sauce. J. Kenji López-Alt hide caption

Velvet chicken with snap peas and lemon-ginger sauce.

How do you make the perfect stir-fry chicken without drying it out? Today, we answer that question with cookbook author and chef J. Kenji López-Alt and science! Host Emily Kwong talks to Scientist-In-Residence Regina G. Barber about velveting, a technique used to seal in moisture during high heat cooking. Then, some listener mail!

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This episode was produced by Berly McCoy, edited by Gabriel Spitzer and Gisele Grayson, and fact checked by Margaret Cirino. The audio engineer was Gilly Moon.

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