Buy Town Food Service 18 Inch Steel Canontese Style Wok

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This is a round-bottomed carbon steel wok that isn't designed for flat surfaces. If you have a gas range with a wok ring or fairly open burner cover and are looking to approximate the very high cooking temperatures of a restaurant, this works well. You may think you'll be able to use this on an electric cooktop if you find a "wok ring" for that, but you're wasting your time, since you won't get the heat transfer or stability. This wok needs to be sitting in open flame, and once you've seasoned it and used it a few times, it'll work great. It will also begin quickly to turn dark brown into black, which is normal. That's the whole point.

It's pretty much as advertised. It's a wok made of carbon steel, that arrives coated with inedible oil that you need to remove with hot soapy water. Wash it well after receipt (several times, since the coating machine oil is everywhere), rinse well, and set over a high flame. When the water has evaporated, add a little cooking oil (peanut or canola or something that's appropriate for high temperature), wipe the oil around the inner part of the cooking surface, and turn the heat up high. Expect smoke. Once you've used it a few times, the residual oil on the surface will continue to smoke, and over time the wok will start to darken.

If you've ever seasoned a cast iron pan, this is similar. Basically, you want to heat this thing as high as you can get it with some oil on the cooking surface, and as you do so, the oil will smoke quite a bit, but the more you season it, the more non-stick it'll become. Use protection, but swish the oil around while doing this part, and angle the wok several times to blacken the surface.

You can do the seasoning of the wok (after washing off the oil it's coated with upon receipt) on an outdoor grill if you can't handle the smoke inside.

But, again, if you're intending to put this on a flat surface, like an electric stove, you don't want this, and you shouldn't even try.

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I used to encounter difficulty mixing all the ingredients needed for the food I was preparing due to lack of space (I had 2 woks before this) but after using this capacious wok, that experience is now a thing of the past. This 18 inch round bottom wok is so superior in quality as long as you follow the proper way of seasoning prior to using it the 1st time. I searched the internet on the best way to do it. After the initial seasoning required for woks made of steel, mine is now a non stick one. I just recently purchased mine but I used it already a number of times and I am very satisfied with the results. I highly recommend it

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After seasoning it worked fine. I was able to cook some very large meals for a lot of people in a short time.