Thread Number: 82838
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I LOVE MY NEW TECH WOK!! |
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Post# 1070336   5/1/2020 at 19:31 (1,427 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Okay People the gloves are off! JC's back on his stir fry horse! There are people who like my stir frys so much they'd rather eat that, than go out ! Insert David Ross here! Ingrid Winkler here! Well its been a few moons and now with new digs its taken awhile to set things up right ! But I have set things up! I had a great gas range set up in Boston, 17,000 BTU's I had first a steel wok with ring then Lodge came out with an ALL cast iron pan that was round in the bottom but could set on a burner too. Fantastic for 20 years. But now that I have a new Induction range ,everything had changed. Just when I was moving back into Stir Frying! The Lodge though great had a too small contact area so I had to use the smaller induction burner to get it to work. The large burner would shut down with an undersized pan. Was not happy about that. I got a great little NUWAVE induction Wok - great results but at 120 volts it is slow compared to real stir frying on a range. Enter this new pan technology I found ! Thin Cast Iron with a 7 inch flat bottom. I am a purest, I wanted to have a round bottom but you can't with Induction. So I sprung for it. Well that pan has surpassed all my expectations! Beautifully made, with a deep polish. Weighs 5 pounds compared to my 12 pound Lodge. And with the 7 inch flat bottom has amazing contact on the largest burner! It heated in 3 minutes! It seared like a real wok in a restaurant. Look at the sear on those onions in the last picture! I can't say enough let the pictures begin. Too bad all the pictures are sidewise or upside down. C'est la vie here.
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Post# 1070383 , Reply# 1   5/1/2020 at 23:41 (1,427 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O )   |   | |
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I went looking for one last year and was hard to find one that would work on induction. Then oddly I "won" a door prize at the casino and got to choose from some items and saw a wok so I chose it. I get home and show it to my other half and he goes,, well what did you get that for? We already have one and he goes gets it out of the cupboard LOL. I had no recollection of him buying it or me buying it in the past. Now we've got two.. the one I won is quite a bit smaller, and the bigger one looks more like yours but has a plastic type handle that is bolted to the pan like the one you have.
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Post# 1070431 , Reply# 2   5/2/2020 at 08:00 (1,426 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Post# 1070454 , Reply# 4   5/2/2020 at 11:02 (1,426 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O )   |   | |
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It's rare to go into any thrift store and not see one of these on the shelf. The infamous red West Bend electric wok. Often times I'll see two or one in black, but 8 out of 10 visits you find one,, if not in the first store, definitely in the second you visit. They and a few other makers must have sold millions of these since the 70s
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Post# 1070519 , Reply# 5   5/2/2020 at 18:18 (1,426 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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West Bend Electric Wok: Wow! There's a blast from the past I'd forgotten about. My stepfather had one and brought it with him when he moved in.
Being Italian, my mom never made Asian stir fries. Remember pulling it out of storage in the basement when I was in high school and using it a few times. It was pretty anemic, as I recall; didn't get hot enough or retain heat well compared to using a stovetop wok over gas flame.
They certainly were all the rage for awhile back in the day! Saw them in many households. JC— That is one kick-ass wok, but I think you buried the headline concerning its anti-gravity abilities, LOL!This post was last edited 05/02/2020 at 22:00 |
Post# 1070552 , Reply# 6   5/3/2020 at 03:24 (1,426 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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I wonder if this hammered carbon steel model with a flat bottom is a decent choice at $99. CLICK HERE TO GO TO Tomturbomatic's LINK |
Post# 1070558 , Reply# 7   5/3/2020 at 05:10 (1,426 days old) by chachp (North Little Rock, AR)   |   | |
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And next to every one of those West Bend woks was one of these hand vacs. My friend Mark and I used to go to garage sales every single Saturday and one of the things we did every Saturday was count how many of these hand vacs we saw that day. We always saw at least one if not more. I don't know why, they look like they would work pretty well.
We had one of those West Bend woks and like most others we only used it a couple of times because it didn't get hot enough. Then we had one by Maxim that was 1600 watts I think. I don't know what ever happened to that. It must have walked in one of our moves or we lent it to someone and never got it back. I had always hoped I'd see one of those in a garage or estate sale but I never did. So, a few years back we got a Breville Hot Wok that is about 1800 watts and that sucker gets hot.
At the time we had an electric glass top stove. Now we have a gas cooktop with a high BTU burner so we are looking for a traditional round bottom wok but it has to be big because we always make really big batches. |
Post# 1070573 , Reply# 9   5/3/2020 at 06:07 (1,426 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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This talks about the heat pattern needed for wok cooking. CLICK HERE TO GO TO Tomturbomatic's LINK |
Post# 1070633 , Reply# 11   5/3/2020 at 14:14 (1,425 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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Chuck, the commercial? induction wok ranges to which I gave the link in reply #8 have concave heating/power surfaces that give 3 to 3.5 KW of power for cooking in a genuine wok-shaped wok. |
Post# 1071088 , Reply# 15   5/6/2020 at 09:54 (1,422 days old) by Jeff_adelphi (Adelphi, Maryland, USA)   |   | |
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This is the wok that Jon has, I'm going to order one also to use on a 3000 watt induction cooker I found in a thrift store a while back. It only had a blown fuse, but I will need to wire up a 240 volt plug for it. Jon said he would come down and cook for us! CLICK HERE TO GO TO Jeff_adelphi's LINK |
Post# 1071092 , Reply# 16   5/6/2020 at 10:14 (1,422 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O )   |   | |
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This is the one I have
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