Quick drying bamboo?

[clemson2fan]

Was searching around trying to find the best way to dry bamboo and came across this. For those of you that don't look at the video it is a guy using a torch to dry bamboo.
 
   

My question is has anyone tried this. Is this a bad idea for drying bamboo that is going to be used as backing?

Thanks everyone.

[Roy from Pa]

The boo will most likely warp.