Who here wok Hey ?
>>7347755
I wish. Our stove even has a special wok attachment for one of the burners, but it's pointless without that jet engine fucker underneath.
>>7347833
They're out of stock. I should have grabbed one when I had the chance. 100,000 BTU.
I have a cast iron wok and a 12.5k BTU burner. If I take my time letting that fucker heat up I can just about do it right.
>>7347901
Sounds better than most. I wonder how hot this thing gets.
>>7347755
I made a pork belly and celery stir fry tonight with a shitty electric stove and non stick wok.
One took a few min cook and tasted better than shitty take out.
marinade pork belly (sliced into thin strips) in xiaoxing wine, sweet soy, palm sugar, and cornstarch
heat wok to super hot
add in oil
add in sliced celery some ginger and some garlic
fry till mostly done
empty wok into a bowl and wipe down
heat back up and add new oil and pork. cook till mostly done
add back in celery and other veg
add in some more dark soy, sugar, maybe a little salt and msg...
then add in a T of starch disolved in 3 T of water
done
takes 2-4 min
keep flipping it as it cooks...
anyone can do it
>>7347937
There's really no point to using a wok on an electric home range. The heat doesn't climb up the sides very well. Better off just using a saute pan. FWIW
>>7347901
I have a 12k burner. It isn't too bad, but I also don't have a vent hood, which makes it really suck.
>>7347969
The point is so you can toss and catch your food. The fire going up the sides is irrelevant. Heat is retained by the metal you tard.
>>7348173
>Toss and catch your food...
lol
you can do that in a saute pan.
The heat doesn't reach and retain the same as it would with 60K BTU.
The sides of the wok are cooler than they should be if not on a wok burner.
Use a saute pan.
>>7347833
Cookin stir fry like a boss!
>>7347755
I use my wok on my fairly eh gas stove.
It gets hot enough to smoke heavily fairly easily, definitely not anywhere near wok burner levels. I'm actually really tempted to pick one up, I love cooking with a wok due to how engaging and fun it is, I just can't use my carbon steel one to its full potential.
>>7347755
I'd like to learn how to use a wok properly
I have one, and use it a bit but I don't think I'm doing it right, or getting the most out of it
Is it worth dropping 180 dollarydoos for a proper wok burner? Is the difference really noticeable in the end product?
Is this style of burner any good? The put out the required MJ/BTU, they tend to be very low pressure though (2-3Kpa).
>>7349499
The issue with those is not enough flame around the sides of a wok, but you can adjust all 4 rings. Putting the middle ones a little lower would probably give a decent result, but not as good as one that is designed specifically for woks.
We use them as "stock burners". They can get large pots up to temp quickly, the lower pressure is so the flames lick the bottom surface of a pot instead of jetting onto it, so it's good for big aluminum pots, and being able to fine tune the temp across all rings means you can minimize the convection effect for stocks as well as make the flame suitable for smaller pots.
