Andrew Zimmern

For wok cooking, use oils with a high smoke point and low polyunsaturated-fat content: grapeseed oil, peanut oil, etc. Sesame oil and olive oil will burn and taste bitter. Oils with high polyunsaturated-fat contents like soybean oil will also make your food texturally unpleasant.

American Critic

Parvesh Cheena

When my family did shy away from Indian food, we'd eat a lot of Chinese. We'd use the wok a lot. I never had a problem with Brussels sprouts or broccoli growing up. I always grew up with the mentality of finishing your plate.

American Actor

Jonathan Miles

A combination of stir-fry and salad, Lok Lak is a popular staple in Cambodia. It's usually made with beef, but in olden times, in the country's mountainous areas, venison would've gone sizzling into the wok.

Yotam Ottolenghi

For those, like me, who can't rely on being given a home smoker this Christmas, you can build your own approximation with just a roll of tin foil and a big wok or pan for which you have a lid.

Israeli Chef

Cat Cora

I like to abide by the seasons and let the natural flavor in food speak for itself. I use quick cooking techniques of high heat with very little fat, such as quick saute or wok stir-frying.

American Chef

Guy Fieri

The wok is one of my favorite things to work with when I'm camping. Outdoor cooking is not just about hot dogs and hamburgers. There are so many styles of food you can make.

American Businessman

Jennifer Lee

With wok cooking, you chop things up into little pieces for maximum surface area, so they can cook in minutes, if not seconds. Sauteing is energy efficient; baking is not.

American Journalist

John Torode

The most used thing I have is my wok. I prefer it to a pan or pot. It is my wonder. They're really easy to clean, I am a lazy cook like that, so it appeals.

Australian Chef

The wok is one of my favorite things to work with when I'm camping.

Eddie Huang

I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.

The wok is specifically a kitchen tool, known for its use in Asian cuisine, especially Chinese.

Culinary Utensil

A wok is often used for stir-frying, a fast cooking process using high heat and constant stirring.

Cooking Method

The wok's bowl shape allows heat to be distributed evenly, making it a versatile cooking vessel.

Shape Significance

 them before they harden like softshell crab according to researcher chris simon although even then she's not a big fan i did taste them at a party where these other people had collected some and they made them sort of a szechuan sauce and so they stir-fried them in a wok they're kind of

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 if that wok had been in Istanbul most probably Charlie and I would be there we were so sad by the lost ones and their families we canceled the wedding in the following days there were other bombings happening all around the country and

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 and this explains that. Well, that first cutaway picture worked, so we said, "Okay, let's do some more." So here's another one. We discovered why woks are the shape they are. This shaped wok doesn't work very well;

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