u/AnarchoPlayworker

I used a flat bottom wok on a glass top stove for like a year and then gave up on it because it was so frustrating, and now I’ve been using it just for steaming dumplings. I’ve wanted to get a wok stove and a round bottom wok for like a year and a half or two years or something. And I finally did it! I ordered the Concord “the block burner max” (the double one with a regular burner and a wok burner), and got a round bottom wok, and I am so pumped! But most of the people in my life are like “🤷🏻‍♀️ cool!”.

I thought y’all might understand the excitement better. 😬

It’s arriving on Friday!!

I just ordered my first outdoor stove (it’s got a regular burner and a wok burner. I’m pumped.), and I’m thinking of putting in a countertop next to it on my deck, but I’m not sure what to make the top out of. I don’t have a ton of money to buy something fancy. Any suggestions? I feel like I saw something about wrapping wood with steel flashing? Is that what it’s called?

Thanks!

Why do so few people on this sub use a Cantonese style wok?

I'm curious because my first wok was a flat bottom Cantonese style wok that I used on a glass top stove (wedding gift I rescued from the back of a closet. It was pretty bad using it on a glass top). I'm planning to get an outdoor wok stove soon and considering what round bottom wok to get to go with it. I've been assuming I should get a pow wok but maybe there's no reason to assume that.

I guess the handle would get hot, but chefs just use a towel or something right? And their burners are surely way hotter than what I'm going to use (the Concord double burner max or whatever it's called). Is it about the rocking motion? The home-use outdoor stoves are not stable enough and would fall over?

Thanks for your thoughts!

So, I’m getting plans together for an outdoor kitchen, and found out you can fairly easily make a DIY tandoori oven involving some terra cotta plant pots and vermiculite. I am pumped to potentially be able to make (relatively) legit naan, but I’m wondering what else I can make in it. I know you can stick vegetables (or meat) or paneer on a skewer and put it in there, but are there other traditional or creative things folks have done in a tandoori oven? Or seen others do?

Thanks!