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Can anyone recommend a wok?

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Nitemare

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Was thinking about getting this one
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How hard is it to season these? and could someone recommend a place/book with good recipes?
 
I like to wok around lakes... along rivers can be good too. Makes sure your with a significant other. Always makes it more special 🙂
 
Its not hard to season these at all........cast iron-------->just rub it with cooking oil, not olive 😉 and instead of baking it like a cast iron pan just heat it on the stove tip. Apply oil liberally maybe a couple of times😀

Nice prices!!!!!!!!
 
Wok cooking takes skills. You have the experience? 😛

EDIT: The woks my relatives who own/work at restaurants are usually seasoned in through hundreds of uses. So many scratches from a metal cooking-shovel that its become dull brown/black/silver and smooth.
 
Originally posted by: Ogg
Its not hard to season these at all........cast iron-------->just rub it with cooking oil, not olive 😉 and instead of baking it like a cast iron pan just heat it on the stove tip. Apply oil liberally maybe a couple of times😀

Nice prices!!!!!!!!
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Indeed shipping is a killer though, but then again cast iron is not light
 
Originally posted by: Mallow
I like to wok around lakes... along rivers can be good too. Makes sure your with a significant other. Always makes it more special 🙂
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🙂
 
Originally posted by: Atomicus
Wok cooking takes skills. You have the experience? 😛

EDIT: The woks my relatives who own/work at restaurants are usually seasoned in through hundreds of uses. So many scratches from a metal cooking-shovel that its become dull brown/black/silver and smooth.
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Not with a wok. I'm familar with virtually every other cooking item though.

Thanks for the 2 serious replies.
 
Originally posted by: Ogg
Its not hard to season these at all........cast iron-------->just rub it with cooking oil, not olive 😉 and instead of baking it like a cast iron pan just heat it on the stove tip. Apply oil liberally maybe a couple of times😀

Nice prices!!!!!!!!
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Why not olive oil?
 
Originally posted by: Jzero
Originally posted by: Ogg
Its not hard to season these at all........cast iron-------->just rub it with cooking oil, not olive 😉 and instead of baking it like a cast iron pan just heat it on the stove tip. Apply oil liberally maybe a couple of times😀

Nice prices!!!!!!!!
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Why not olive oil?
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Too light... You need to season it with a heavy oil that sticks to the pan. I actually recommend either vegetable oil or crisco.
 
K, went to the "Foremost Oriental Grocer in North Carolina" and all they had were some teflon coated numbers. I don't really want to get one of those because I know with high heat I'll be eating chemicals.

So is the cast Iron in the first post still the best deal? Also what size wok for 2 people? 13, 14 or 17"?
 
Originally posted by: Chunkee
i wok on the wildside
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more hardcore would be totally round ones🙂 gotta get the matching cookingtool thingy. can't believe i forgot the name🙁 anyways the shovel bit is perfectly angled for the round shape. great for stir frying etc. with flat bottom its harder since u got that corner bit. very bottom of total round ones also works as a sorta sauce holder thing so u can more evenly distribute during toss. there are adaptors if ur stove can't handle round.
 
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
more hardcore would be totally round ones🙂 gotta get the matching cookingtool thingy. can't believe i forgot the name🙁 anyways the shovel bit is perfectly angled for the round shape. great for stir frying etc. with flat bottom its harder since u got that corner bit. very bottom of total round ones also works as a sorta sauce holder thing so u can more evenly distribute during toss. there are adaptors if ur stove can't handle round.
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Total round you need a ring and a gas burner, electric is hard to use.

A wok is nice, I had no idea the skill was any greater than using a regular pan...it's cooking not rocket science.

I have a huge stir fry pan that's keeping us from getting a wok now, plus storage space issues 🙂. When we buy we will have a gas range and we will have a wok.
 
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