Questions for cooks
January 2, 2013
Is there a wok in your kitchen?
Is it a proper wok or one of those flattened-bottom monstrosities?
What’s it made of?
DrugMonkey
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Is there a wok in your kitchen?
Is it a proper wok or one of those flattened-bottom monstrosities?
What’s it made of?
DrugMonkey 
January 2, 2013 at 7:46 pm
Yes. No. Dunno.
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January 2, 2013 at 7:47 pm
No- meaning not a flat bottomed garbage wok.
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January 2, 2013 at 7:51 pm
Yes, yes, steel.
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January 2, 2013 at 7:55 pm
Doesn’t everyone’s Mommy send them off into the world with a proper, inexpensive, carbon steel round bottomed wok?
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January 2, 2013 at 8:00 pm
Depends- round bottomed ones work like ass on electric stoves. We have a real one, it is steel, and we use it on the side-burner of a propane grill, which is probably good any way so the house doesn’t get stunk up, but less enjoyable when it is freezing on the porch.
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January 2, 2013 at 8:07 pm
I’m not sure what mine’s made of, but I’d guess carbon steel, and probably cost $11.99 at TJ Maxx. It has two handles so you can shake your stir fry all around! My mom did not teach me much about cooking–most of it I just picked up as I went along.
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January 2, 2013 at 8:16 pm
Yo I might have spoken too soon. I own one of them flat-bottom joints. I wish I could say it’s because I have an electric range. Sad too, considering one of the burners on my crazy ass cast iron stove would accommodate a true wok quiet nicely. Turning my Asian card in in the morning.
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January 2, 2013 at 8:31 pm
thin-walled, high-carbon (I assume) steel. Round bottom. Heat first, then oil.
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January 3, 2013 at 3:22 am
beautiful cheap-ass ($25 at local chinese market) cast iron, round bottom, does amazing on our Viking gas range
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January 3, 2013 at 3:48 am
For some of us Mommy’s idea of stir fry is poking a hole in the plastic cover of the sweet and sour chicken lean cuisine and putting it the microwave.
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January 3, 2013 at 4:15 am
Yes, I have a well-seasoned round bottom wok. I don’t know what it’s made of but I’m going to guess carbon steel. Got it from The Wok Shop on Amazon. I have an electric range though which is annoying but doesn’t stop me from making awesome Chinese and Thai food.
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January 3, 2013 at 4:52 am
No wok. Don’t know if we have room for one in our tiny kitchen.
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January 3, 2013 at 5:40 am
Does this count?
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January 3, 2013 at 6:21 am
We have the cheapest flat bottom wok that you can get at IKEA but we are also working with an electric stove in an apartment too.
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January 3, 2013 at 6:43 am
Traditional round-bottom cast iron, with a wok ring, although we hardly ever use it. I had really good luck ordering from The Wok Shop in SF.
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January 3, 2013 at 6:46 am
Yes, Steel, round bottom, bought in Chinatown in mid-70’s, and in constant use since then.
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January 3, 2013 at 7:10 am
Yes, round bottom, calphalon’s hard-anodized surface. It was a gift, I don’t love it, but it does the trick.
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January 3, 2013 at 7:25 am
Yes: a round-bottomed Christmas gift wok, made of machine hammered carbon steel.
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January 3, 2013 at 7:44 am
Fucke offe, cockewadde.
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January 3, 2013 at 8:07 am
Round-bottomed steel with long wooden handle. Bought it 35 years ago for $12 at GemCo.
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January 3, 2013 at 8:23 am
Does Uncle Ben’s fry up better in a round bottomed wok?
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January 3, 2013 at 8:32 am
Is your Resolution to troll more?
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January 3, 2013 at 9:03 am
Meybeee? I certainly can’t run more until my crack heals.
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January 3, 2013 at 5:55 pm
Yes 2 actually round bottom. Got it from India
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