50k BTUs, comes with a wok, and is available in May 2024 for about tree fiddy. What do you think?
https://www.cuisinart.com/shopping/outdoor-grilling/grills-griddles/cgg-1265/
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this is just more encroachment. nobody should be buying or embracing "wok" anything, ever.
We have stir fries and such pretty often. I cook them in a big stainless skillet. I've been thinking about buying a wok. Any opinions on this? Should I or should I not bother?
Looks like a nice little addition to the consoomer with an outdoor kitchen.
Stir frying in a wok is easier than in a skillet. It's deeper with a rounded bottom, so you lose fewer bits while stirring vigorously, and the angles are better for tossing the ingredients together. The problem is that it's a pain in the ass to use them on a normal western flat cooktop, you need either a specialty burner as in OP or some kind of adapter to let it sit on a regular gas burner. They don't really work on electric stoves unless they have a flat bottom.
Yeah, I had my eye on this flat-bottom boi: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002AQSWMU
ATK rates it highly and I usually agree with them, so I feel fairly good about it. I just don't want to invest in a piece of cookware that sits in my cabinet for the rest of time.
Made in China shit from cuisinart yet given some French name, we'll all have ro get on that immediatly.
Woks are from China, and Chinks know what they need to cook with one. I fail to see the problem here.
Encroachment? Wtf are you on about here, sjw?
The problem with woks on electric, which I assume is why people buy flat bottom woks, is that as soon as you lift the wok off the burner to toss your food, it stops heating. A lot of wok technique is lifting the wok to constantly flip your food, so you will need to compensate with a wok spatula, but the additional problem is that now you've got a flat bottom wok with uneven curvature, so a wok spatula won't be able to easily scrape anything in the crease just above the flat spot.
Yeah, that makes sense. Fortunately I'm on gas, and my stove has a pretty oomphy high-output burner. (I don't know the BTUs cause it came with the apartment, but it's the burner we use for boiling pasta water etc.) I've been assuming that a flat-bottom wok plus that high-output burner would be a decent combo. Probably not as good as a round-bottom wok but a lot safer to use on a standard gas burner.
Woks are for larpers. A skillet will give an equivalent or better result.
wok shape allows you to use less oil
tree fiddy and wok away.
man that looks like a shoddy piece of shit that wouldn't last one season
Most propanegays don't even grill once, they just keep it around as a larp for their husbands and their molested adopted sons.
Yeah, the plastic wheels, sheet metal construction and plastic knob would make me want to use it in a garage instead of on a deck.
I am so sick of using a removable wok trivet. An integrated wok burner with an attached table is nice to have.
It's a step in the right direction. Restaurant wok burners don't need to be used on 100% power all the time for all foods anyway.
What this thing purports to accomplish is offering a platform that you can use to keep your wok continuously tossing food, at the correct height, without dealing with a wobbly wok trivet sitting loosely on a flat top. It would be nice if the flames are hot enough to get some wok hei in your food, although I do wonder if 50k BTUs will be enough for that.
Would rather have a Blackstone griddle.
I wonder if this is designed as a workaround for California Asians who aren't allowed to install gas stoves in their houses anymore.
It would make more sense if it was a flat top with a removable or flip up top. Then you could just use the burner. This is single use bullshit.
Wok burners are specialized things that wouldn't work as well for regular pots or pans, so it kinda makes sense that it's single use. Making it a separate outdoor $350 thing is a lot more reasonable than installing one permanently in your indoor range too.
>50k BTU
That's like 40% hotter than a stove and fully 100% less hot than an actual wok burner, how useless.
don't they already have wok burners that accept propane tanks? This seems like 100$ extra for shitty plastic construction
I never would have thought to use a boomer grill for wok cooking.
This is what you can get on Amazon:
Freestanding:
https://www.amazon.com/King-Kooker-24WC-Heavy-Duty-Portable/dp/B000BWFTJE/
https://www.amazon.com/Eastman-Outdoors-Big-Kahuna-Burner/dp/B0000CAQ0R/
https://www.amazon.com/Eastman-Outdoors-Portable-Adjustable-Removable/dp/B003GISCDK/
https://www.amazon.com/Eastman-Outdoors-37212-Outdoor-Gourmet/dp/B0002OOMRG/
Non-freestanding:
https://www.amazon.com/CONCORD-Single-Propane-Outdoor-Camping/dp/B0CTJ9KXTT/
https://www.amazon.com/ARC-USA-Portable-Regulator-Pressure/dp/B07ML62FK2/
https://www.amazon.com/Propane-0-20PSI-Regulator-Outdoor-Cooking/dp/B0BQ8JJ4QS/
These are turkey fryers, NOT wok burners (you need a separate wok trivet, which reduces stability):
https://www.amazon.com/GasOne-B-5350-Propane-Regulator-Pressure/dp/B08HCRRRMQ/
https://www.amazon.com/COOKAMP-Pressure-1-Burner-Adjustable-Regulator/dp/B079Q351J4/
Not a single product available on Amazon is like the Cuisinart one, where the burner is integrated into a work table. In a Chinese restaurant kitchen, the wok burner is sunk into a table. It's not some sort of free-standing thing on a flimsy camera tripod outside, but always integrated into a table that you can set things on and abuse the shit out of.
this shit sucks
I love wok. You suck
You can get free standing propane powered wok burners off Amazon for like $50. Looks like something for absolutely clueless yuppies.