When recreating your favorite dish from your local Chinese or Thai restaurant, it’s essential to have a wok. These versatile kitchen tools are found in every Asian kitchen and can braise, deep fry, ...

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It’s guaranteed to elevate your dinner. A must-have item has just arrived at Costco—and no, it’s not the bakery’s latest sweet treat. This time around, the product from the warehouse that’s receiving ...

A: I’ve never owned an electric wok. I’ve always used a standard carbon-steel wok on my stove. So, I turned to the experts for their opinions. When it comes to electric woks, “there is no advantage,” ...

Surprisingly, this electric wok set was able to impart wok hei without a single lick of flame. Meats seared stunningly, vegetables blistered, charred, and popped with abandon, rice crackled and ...

Enjoying a bit of a blast from the past last week, I spied the sad and dusty red electric wok I had acquired in a previous life, tucked away on a back closet shelf in the laundry room, all but ...

Microsoft chef Jevic Acain works on an electric wok at Pacific Rim, a culinary concept at the new One Esterra Food Hall at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser ...

When you think of a wok, you might imagine a large, dark bowl engulfed in flames—and while that's not wrong by any means, it's far from a complete picture of this efficient cookware. Woks aren't used ...

David Soohoo is, first and foremost, a chef. Over the course of decades, he’s owned and run a variety of Sacramento restaurants, like Bamboo and Ming Palace. One lesson he’s learned: It takes more ...

For how incredible a wok is, it’s not very high on people’s list when stocking their pots and pans. Especially in the west, the pure bliss of cooking – not set-it-and-forget-it cooking, but active, ...

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