How to make sweet and sour sauce

[ninjadude1021]

i would reduce the water/soup stock to 1 3/4 cups or 2 cups instead of 3. Sweet and sour sauce should have somewhat of a thick consistency and not be really water-like.

[ZombieFreakful]

Can I be adopted by you? I really LOVE Chinese food!

[Mustang5516]

can you still add corn starch to thicken it

[bertini18]

you need your own tv show

[kylegil07]

you can use your pee!

[bluelifemedia]

You are the Man!!!!!

[krieser559]

what type of soup stock?

[kormaroad]

Hi ,just wondering how many types of sweet and sour sauces recipes video's u have uploaded? This one is totally different from the one you made with pork?

I'm after just the when which is generally served in Chinese take a ways... plz reply .thx

[goodnight4u]

Brontee i know your out there

[louisamrojas]

hindi yan sweet and sour pare...ok para sa iyo ay sweet and sour ..maraming kulang na mga ingredients ...hindi ako gumagamit ng luya sa sweet and sour sa escabeche lang...

[BeyondBracelets]

You can also use water... if you want to...

It sounds like he's implying that we should use the stock. =D

[akaBPhife]

Kai I completely disagree with your methods from the ingredients to the storage method.

[MagnetoMasterOfEvil]

Kai is the GUY!

[AlcoholLevel]

Damn, you are a real motherfucker. Dont be acting so stuffed full of shit

[goladen]

@CarnivoreXYZ Well, I hate people who post shit without knowing anything at all.... Just rambling on about bull shit... Grow up and learn something before posting unintelligent babble fucktard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why would you dog this guy's recipe when you obviously know nothing about cooking like at all? Fuckin asshat... This guy does this from his heart and you fuckin talk trash? You sir are a complete douche bag

[goladen]

@CarnivoreXYZ sugar vinegar and stock are main ingredients in many asian dishes( and yes even ketchup is used)... The word catsup was derived from the word ke-tsiap a pickled fish sauce... You are all fucked up dude learn your cooking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hate noob cooks

[goladen]

@CarnivoreXYZ I have worked at several asian restaurants and thats how its made. Did you try it?

[Strawberry7Lynn]

Can you use lemon juice instead of the vinegar? & how about pineapple & its juice instead of the sugar. Don't forget the cornflower to thicken. And let it go cold before refrigeration

[goladen]

@Strawberry7Lynn Why would you want to use lemon juice instead of vinegar? Why not just have lemon chicken then? You don't have to let it sit out before refrigerating. Wrap in plastic wrap with holes in it! peace!

[blasterowner]

where are you from?

[shani21shani]

Are you Jacky Chan ? you shound like him..

[TheBahamaPoppa]

Looks. SUPER thin or liquidly, no body to it.. Not what the Houston Area is used too..!! (large far eastern population)

[goladen]

@TheBahamaPoppa Houston? You need to stick with steak's then =8. You can add more corn starch to your southern fried bullshit of a recipe

[daredevilpre]

I was in a nice man's kitchen in Malaysia and he made it just like this to go on the fish he was frying us. He did use a little taro to thicken it.

[moonisveri]

hash music at beginning

[Denvermorgan2000]

cool thanks man

[HALLSYSKITCHEN]

thanks for the post...helpful

[jaerinax]

missin the pineapple juice, but ur version is very economical. i prefer tomato paste n brown sugar too but bit more expensive.

[healthyvegan]

nice sauce! I posted a video of a sweet and sour flavored vegan pepper dish I make - not the traditional sauce, but fresh and healthy.

[chincheeweng]

this sauce or soup?

[jadeowl33]

i love the Asian music in the background as he's dumping the Heinz ketchup in to the mix!!

[shannan2000]

should'nt you let the sauce cool down before putting it into the fridge??

why is it watery????

[shannan2000]

should'nt you let the sauce cool down before you put it in the fridge????????

[ReidHarris7]

thats not how my momma makes it :P brown sugar and tomato sauce mmmm lol

[xbeast133]

YOU ARE THE BEST ASIAN MAN EVER! no homo

[bertini18]

@xbeast133 his the best asian man ever homo intended

[bruceleeC64]

realry watrery

[boltanddragons]

can you buy sweet and sour sauce? I have looked in kroger but didn't see any or at walmart.

[deannej1]

@boltanddragons

buy chun's asian sweet and sour at jewel or other larger store

[dmi5151988]

your videos are so easy to follow!! I love it

[7106279]

Awesome!! Thanks for all the great videos!

[benczy]

So watery!

[Jeenymt]

Thank you Kai!!!! I just cook Chicken with your sweet and sour super easy recipe... and it was perfection!!! Did not have ginger :-( But add less than a teaspoon of Chinese 5 spice... delicious... put chicken to marinate with 1 tbs of soy and 2 teaspoons of corn starch... when everything came together was perfect thick sauce... DELICIOUS... Thank you* Your fan from Venezuela ;-)

[whodey8607]

FAIL! i work at House Of Hunan. and they use a neutral red base and they simmer it with oranges, lemons, pineapples, and a couple other things that give it the flavor. this is just a very generic simple recipe, but done expect this to be anywhere close to the kind you have at a chinese restaurant.

[814user]

looks like soup than sauce! Doesn't look appetizing...

[Bnovek2]

That sucks, too much water! Sweet and sour sauce should be dark red and thick!

[4everPandaLover]

you can store it for a month or two!!

AWESOME!

[halostalker]

whats is that yellow thing?

[don417]

Looks more like ginger soup.

[NumberOneOtaku91]

is ketchup tomato sauce? or is it something totally different?

[djkinzo1]

@NumberOneOtaku91 its not ketchup tomato sauce lol..... its sweet n sour sauce n u can add this on any meat dish, it wil b so tasty.^^

[shan2nu03]

every ingridient s ok except the ginger. and MOST importantly, you can not and MUST not put it in the refrigerator when the sauce is hot. :P

[sweetface1502]

thnx

[VicJLo]

this sauce taste like sweet and chili sauce. U need something less hottasting and something sour. Skipp the ginger, add garlic and limejucie, more sugar and a bit more ketchup and more vinegar.

[llanerfyl]

water

[thenewagekid]

So people won't get so confused. The sauce is used for other things as well which I have noticed. But Itkman like in your description for How to Make Sweet and Sour Chicken instead of just having "Chicken.... is so sweet" you should also add to the description to please watch this video to make the sauce. Add like a url in it or something. And here add the links instead of just saying to add it to chicken, bbq pork and ribs. That should solve the problem :) Well done either way good job!

[thenewagekid]

It's pretty simple he made a batch of sweet and sour sauce. When he cooks the chicken (the whole meal) he adds the corn starch then to make it thicken while it's still hot and fresh. Very nice, very nice.

[geohsnider]

If you are going to add cornstarch do so before heating, I think for this recipe one heaping tbsp should be enough. P.S. thanks for posting this

[Ryuki19n]

r u sure its before heating? i mix the cornstarch in alittle bit of water and putting it into the mixture when its close to a boil. putting cornstarch into warm/cool sauce will definitely ruin it.

[BlazingCheerio]

yeah you are right. i work at a restaurant and we add it a mixture of cornstarch/ water when it is boiling it. once it thickens up its complete.

[mysteryman605]

This recipe is way too watery. I love to watch the cooks make chinese food when I order take-out, but they usually add cornstarch to the mixture which makes the sauce thicken. He did not add any cornstarch.

[LittleMissBuzzkill]

I think I made a pretty good sweet and sour sauce, but the recipe called for cornstarch, which just RUINED it.

[mckill2007]

too much water man

[johnnyjohnjohn79]

@mckill2007 he didn't use water, he used chicken stock

[torbinpicnic]

its in two parts he thickens it up in the next part , well done mate :)

[JynXMAMi]

why is it so watery???

[leefoll]

When ready to use a corn starch

[c4wfee]

@ nevermind:

Add some corn starch to make it thicker.

This is a great and handy video, thanks! I add some onion bits and chili flakes to my own to make it a bit spicier.

[ZellCendo]

or just reduce it down which would also concentrate the flavour..

[HouseDJ2008]

How do you make the red sweet and sour sauce that they make in restaurants?

[TopazSkillMauler]

your gonna scratch all your pans

[leefoll]

don't cook if your afraid of scratching pans

[TopazSkillMauler]

lol my mom goes on a 10 hour rant if a pan gets scratched

[mastergsan]

buy some pans for yourself :)

[nevermind89pwnz]

its not thick enough

[djtwistter1]

because he forget stach i think

[JAMministryProject]

this is okay i kinda don't like that ketchup taste though

[david008899]

can you please shut fuckup motherfuckers cocksuckers and let this men showhis recipies sorry for that itkman you doing great job thank for your recipies

[123reminisce]

LOL excuse me experiessence like you were being polite when you gave your advice "I hate to burst your bubble" please..

Good on you ZunnyONe for givin it back and with fact.

[12lemons12344]

i didnt use ginger and it worked thanx

[paullovrey]

sweet and sour sauce is simply regular vinegar sugar and tomato sauce. its not rocket science. try it and tell me im wrong!

[spitfirescotty]

your wrong i tryed it lol epic fail

[experiessence]

I hate to burst your bubble, but it's not a good idea to put hot fluids (sauces, soups, etc.) directly into tupperware and then into the fridge. The heat trapped inside will cause the soup or sauce to sour, especially if there is stock in it.

Always let things cool before covering and refrigerating!!

[ZunnyONe]

well I'd hate to burst your bubble but that is an old wives tale, look it up on google, actually leaving foods out to cool in room temperature actually makes them more vulnerable to "sour", bacteria thrive and multiply in temperatures between 40°F and 140°F, so next time you try to sound like a genius do-gooder help yourself to some fucking research because you sound fucking retarded

[Jhoxi1972]

Listen to yourself! You called experiessence a "fucking retard" simply based on the fact that you presumably know something experiessence does not. What's the matter with you...Insulting people like that over a matter of putting food in a fridge. Stick to playng with your little guns. I wish I could say YOU sound like a fucking retard....but i just cannot insult retarded people like that.

[ZunnyONe]

yes but you seem to miss the most important lesson here, ask me if I care or give two shits....go right ahead.....ask me

[Jhoxi1972]

Wow...OK, ok....I will ask you....give me a minute, because I'm shaking in my boots here over such an important question...I...I..I need to set my mind straight first....Phew! OK, here goes...Fuck! I just fainted! The moment was just too big for me....Hang on, I will try again....I am now calm and should be able to ask your question....Here goes..."YOU SIR!...Mr. ZunnyONe! DO YOU CARE OR GIVE TWO SHITS?" There.....I'VE DONE IT!! I have asked an idiot the most important question of my LIFE!!!

[experiessence]

My you are so charming. Do you always rely on F-bombs as your expressive word of choice? Stupid bombastic cunt.

I worked in kitchens for six years and I never, NEVER, met and/or worked with a chef, i.e. trained professional, who would agree with your statement. And anyone who regards the Internet as the ultimate source of accumulated knowledge and an authority, well, I wipe my ass with people like you. I bet you cook and eat pork to 165F, don't you? Loser...

[ZunnyONe]

hahah shut up old man, take your six years and your pork and blow it out your ass

[experiessence]

right on, Jhoxi1972. Get a life ZunnyONe, and do us all a favor and turn one of your guns on yourself....or should I say you wouldn't know how 'cause all you can do is point them at other things? What a dingle berry!!!

[ZunnyONe]

at the end of the day with all silliness aside, your still wrong about the hot food, and your still a little bitch, have fun being wrong and getting butt hurt about it, oh yeah you can still blow it out your ass....

[experiessence]

Whatever, dude. Next time you feel the urge to correct someone, why not do it in a polite way, i.e. by quoting a reliable source to supporting your assertion. The world is full of people who went to their graves thinking they were right. Have a nice life...

[Defaze3]

LOL

[goladen]

@experiessence You plastic wrap with holes poked in the plastic wrap...... geebus

[aa6757]

@experiessence

isn' t that why it's called sweet and sour,

[NJAW]

@experiessence who give a rats ass, you don't need to tear on little things unless you plan on being a douche and are just trying to get the most thumbs up.

[snaggypaggy]

@experiessence Thats bullcrap, I hate to burst your bubble but your facts are falsified. Sorry.

[klyde333]

I remember making sweet and sour sauce using orange juice as a base, and it was great! just like the restaurant. This was years ago, so I forgot the recipe. Why cant I find this recipe on youtube? It went something like: 1 cup OJ, 1 tbsp cornstarch, 1 tbsp ketchup...

[elijahpryor]

Probably because that Sweet and sour sauce was a restaurant secret recipe. If that's the case, then you won't find it on Youtube.. you could try to ask the restaurant owner/manager but that's unlikely to happen.

[fatlord12]

lol he said 1/2 cup ketchup 1 tsp of pepper 1 tsp of salt 2 tbsp of sugar and 2 tbsp of vinegar 3 cup of soup stock or water and 2 more tbsp of sugar

[ExKon3]

I think your measurements are wrong, my sauce came out too spicy, that doesn't look like 1/4 cup of ketchup.

[soulzreaperzz]

close but not good enough. he didnt add corn starch thus his sauce was watery. it should have been thick and gluey.

[lordthanator]

Anyone know the name of this song? Greatly appreciated ~_~

[gypsyboyizback]

looked more like ketch up soup

[JoeMelyun]

Thanks for this recipe as well Kai!

catsup.... who knew?

[armlesscorps]

Good recipe. It was a little overpowering at first but when i put it in with the chicken that was frying it took away the sourness and became very tasty so I would recommend doing that. Anyone got any improvement ideas?

[JiaPRiX]

chop-ed ginger

[thewolfofthesnow]

When you say "soup stock" are we talking about vegetable stock, chicken stock, beef stock or is there actually something sold as soup stock??

[DevilsCuz]

I think he was referring to chicken stock. From experience, it doesn't matters on what kind of stock you use.

[bombaykitty07]

i think it needs to add more cornstarch to make it thicker

[easternslavic]

Was about to say the same thing. Would plain flour work also?

[e30roundel]

it should

[rikuzgirl4lyfe]

I'm definetly making this as soon as I get all of the ingredients =]

oh && by the way I made your fried rice && It came out great ^^.

[bluesguitarBobbyD]

when you add to other recipes , you add corn starch mix to thicken it. if you want just add corn starch mix when boiling. mix cornstarch with cold water then slowly add to boiling pot.

[semiliteratedgod]

is this the same that u got in cheap chinese restaurants? never knew they make it from fucking ketchup

[VergetenPareltjes]

The Europeans got the idea for ketchup from an old Chinese sauce.

[easternslavic]

You're close but no ciggar.

[Rocflex]

Whoever you are.. you rock. I think I told you before. Thank you. Must be Buddhist. So giving.

[zalfreid]

Thank you very very much,

it's best thing that i have ever cooked!

And it's because of this video!

[tidyboy13]

needs thickening

[mikeygeneral]

very watery!

sweet and sour sauce i have used is always very thick!

but i don't doubt that that tasts good.

[andylionhart]

It's more of a dipping sauce, you're probably thinking of something you typically find in a stir fry, and those are normally thickened with corn starch.

[mikeygeneral]

OOOOOoooh O.K. I understand!

[KARStarla]

You can probrobly add a "Clear gel" to jel it, they sell that I believe to make jelly

[neverBproductive]

yah he made another sause with like a cup of sugar cornstarch and red vinegar that he poured over pork, it looked thicker

[IamtheGrynch]

LOL, I love the plug for Heinz! Kai's the best!

[love9boy]

I made this exactly as you say and it was the BEST sweet and sour chicken I have ever had! This recipe is staying with me for the rest of my life! Thank you!

[jeebs15]

you should get your own cooking show

"Cooking With Kai' has a ring to it

[lukesweatherlight]

Awesome Kai!

You've done amazing!!!!

[lukesweatherlight]

What a stupid comment.

[faitalety101]

i kno im random haha

[PROTOGgouki]

hey Kai ive watched a few of ur vids, nd i all i can say is ur honestly da man!!

btw is using sweet nd sour/spicy sause bought from da supermarket as good as da 1 u jus cooked in dis vid?

[semfoster]

hi

do you have to use rice wine?

thanks

[AZNWOKZ]

TIP: if the sauce is not thick enough, reduction will increase the taste as well as the texture.

try fruit juice for better taste.

[ElectricUniverse]

Pineapple juice. for example

[Shaythong]

Cool! Thanks, this is soo easy to make.