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Wok Guide: Everything You Wanted To Know About Wok
Published July 29, 2011How I got started to Love and Cook in a Wok
When I was in college, me and my friends used to hang out at one place after classes that served great stir fry and spring rolls. Food was inexpensive enough for students, however when we started eating out almost every day, cost added up. Friend of mine and I decided to make same stir fry at home at fraction of cost. After making several failed attempts of making a stir fry in a frying pan, stainless steel pan, I bought a thin and inexpensive wok, it did not work as well as metal was too thin, I had no real patience of seasoning the wok.
Around that time I started watching “Yan can cook” in PBS cooking show and started to learn lot more about cooking Chinese food and… Continue reading
How To Season Your Carbon Steel Wok?
Published July 29, 2011How to season your carbon steel Wok?
Wok are one of the best way to cook quick and healthy Asian stir fries at home. I love cooking in wok, if you like to see our wok guide to learn more about types of wok and what are best features to look for in traditional wok and electric wok, check out our wok guide here.
Best traditional woks are made of carbon steel material. What is a carbon steel? Carbon steel is usually rolled or hammered into tiny thin sheets of material. Material supposed to be strong and holds heat well enough. Hand hammered and double to triple ply woks are generally best quality.
You got the carbon steel Wok and love it, what is next step to season it? Let’s look at ways to season your carbon steel wok.… Continue reading
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