Fajitas al Disco: Demonstrating My New Cowboy Wok or Discada from Southwest Disk
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ส.ค. 2021
- When I speak English I usually call it a discada. In Spanish discada refers to the delicious stir fried meats and vegetables that are prepared in these. The Spanish term is “disco”. To not be confused with ‘70s era dance music, English speakers often have many names for these cooking vessels converted from a plow disk (or disc). Cowboy Wok, plow disc cooker, discada, disk grill are some of the more common ones. I first saw one during the mid 1990’s it was hand crafted by the fellow who was cooking with it. Since I don’t have welding skills to make my own I bought one someone who does have the skills to make excellent ones. I purchased this one from www.southwestdisk.com , out of Albuquerque, NM.
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I have 3 of these SouthwestDisk cookers, fixing to order my 4th. Like you, I did my research, and determined them to be the best on the market- and they are. I've literally cooked everything on them, even crab legs... get a dome lid, thank me later.
Absolutely LOVE them all !
I plan to eventually get the lid. It arrived Friday, I made the fajitas on it. Yesterday smash burgers. This morning bacon, hash browns, scrambled eggs, and Italian bread toast. Tonight I will attempt liver and onions on it.
Super nice. I first saw one of these back in the early 80’s. Visiting some folks in Port Lavaca Tx they were frying some oysters in a home made one. I didn’t know you could buy one either. They also fabricated a gas burner using the guts from an old water heater. I’ve always wanted one and now all these years later I’m going to contact Southwest Disc. Good job and like your Spanish. After all we all in this together.
Southwest makes awesome ones. There are others but I think Southwest is Crème de la Crème. So there’s some French for ya.
im vey late to the show here on a discada....
based on your vlogs, I looked at a bunch of different makes and focused (thanks to you) on the southwest discada....it was delivered today and it is AWESOME! its a new family heirloom!
thanks for your work and your outstanding channel!
Thank you! I love me Southwest Disk. I have no affiliation with them and I purchased my disk from them as well. I just think they are fantastic cooking vessels.
That disc works great and those fajitas looks delicious.
Thank you they were. As always I appreciate it.
Yet another reason I wish I had welding skills, discadas, discs, disco, whatever you want to call them are really cool. The fajitas look fantastic, quick and easy dinner. One day I’ll get one of them, definitely on the list! Have a fantastic week big Lew!
I do too, wish I could weld. I made a “C” in welding shop in high school. Welding masks and my glasses didn’t get along.
Anyway for those of us who don’t weld, Southwest Disk can do it for us at a very fair price. Thanks for the comment Charley.
Looks good. To tenderize beef here’s an excerpt from WoksOfLife:
HOW CHINESE RESTAURANTS TENDERIZE BEEF
It’s time to share some Chinese restaurant secrets on how to tenderize beef. Tenderizing your beef is the first step of the traditional process of velveting beef practices by Chinese chefs.
The first step is to add a good amount of baking soda to the beef--about 1 rounded tsp per lb
Next, add 1/4 cup (60 ml) water (per pound of beef), and massage the beef so the baking soda and water is uniformly distributed. Set aside for 1-2 hours. This step tenderizes (baking soda) and hydrates (water) the beef.
Next, the beef must be rinsed thoroughly under running water to rid it of any excess baking soda, or you will taste it in the dish.
Use your hands to stir up the beef during the rinsing process.
Once the water runs clear, drain the beef thoroughly in a colander and transfer it to a bowl for the marinating process.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing!
And Thank you for watching
Enjoyed the video. First time seeing anyone cook on a plow disk. Food looked delicious 😋.
Wow, really? First time you have seen a plow disk cooker!
Love your Spanish bro
Much love
Looks delicious as always BL. All the best from Calgary, AB!
Delicious looking burrito BL. That disk is very handy.
Best thing I saw, was that rice. The more seasons that you use , it turns into a gravy out.. You never cook fajita skirt , unless you marinate it.. watch this TH-cam link..it good.
Looks great Lew! I love cooking on my plow disc 👍😉
Thanks man!
Great video compadre !!!!
That is such a cool device. The fajitas look really tasty. Cheers, Big Lew!
Thank you! They were. I appreciate you watching.
I was about to say "baker's 10", and then you said it! Nice device! God Bless!
Thanks Paulie
GREAT post Big Lew, looks soo good. Will probably for the kids this coming weekend. They lov spanish/mexican food like this :)
Oh yes, they do. Knife and t-shirt video coming soon.
Those look so good. Looking into getting one of those woks.
Seriously consider Southwest Disk. Glad I did and thanks for watching
I bought them too
Looks good. Bet it smelled delicious. I don’t have a scratch off smell phone yet. Lol. I enjoyed your Spanish, keep at it brother. Bendiciones
¡Gracias! por verlo y sus comentarios.
Got a 24incher from southwest and new gas stand. Ima get some vids up soon. Love mine
Thank you this is my Southwest Disk playlist. th-cam.com/play/PLCMmeo0Gae74UsQVWK5k_VSwViD7LxEvM.html
Thank you Big Lew I just order one with lid today :-0)
I think you will enjoy it.
Thanks Big Lew! I have had one of these for years, love over 10 year I think. Our nephew that works in the oil field where they use these a lot went out and bought me one. We never used it, I'd never seen one and had no idea what to do with it so it got put in a corner of the garage and well, it's just been sitting there where I forget I even have it! I wanted to cook on it with him and we could never get together unfortunately. And I have thought about breaking it out lately too. And now after watching this, I will have to. It looks simple enough and I have a Blackstone so how different can it be? And your fajitas look delicious! Thank you again Big Lew for the inspiration!
It is similar to a griddle and similar to wok. I’m making smash burgers on it today.
Lookin good Big Lew!
Thank you Tom!
Necesita más manteca 😂😂😂 very nice 👍👍👍👍
Thanks
I have one of those and you can make some good fried tators on it too!!
Thank you, I plan too do just that fried fish too.
Hahaha, we call that a Portuguese wok in my area, I need to clean mine up, and move it by the new smoker when it gets here. I had some of my students make mine, we designed it for charcoal and wood and we concluded a grill we swap out,
Awesome, if I had welding skills I would have made my own.
I made a few of my own plow discs that I cook on. You should copy my Breakfast Discada Cooking Video, very fun to cook breakfast that way. Good job on the cook Big Lew! Take Care Buddy!
I have breakfast taco video on this. I will re watch you breakfast one soon.
Great video Lew, is that the 22" size? Thanks for your channel, from Slidell.
Yes it’s the 22”. I was in Covington last weekend.
@@BigLewBBQ Thanks for the quick reply Lew, Cheers!
Where did you get that burner I want one God bless have fun
That burner is the five gallon jambalaya pot stand from Cajun Classic Cookware.
You know, you should make a cooking video that when you are explaining the cook, repeat it in Spanish. Would be interesting to see how well the video will do.
U invited to the carnita asada bro
¿Me invitas tú? Gracias amigo.
Ok