 The puffed rice is then quickly removed with a metal sieve and set to cool.At times beef steak is fried in this manner - by preheating the frying-pan and salt and the placing steak on it on one side for a minute and then on the other side for two minutes depending on the thickness and how well done one wants it.Hot sand frying is a common cooking technique for street-side food vendors in China and India to cook chestnuts and peanuts.