Alessandro Corazza 🇨🇦
@miiamustang@eliitin-some.fi Only worth it if you have a gas stove IMO. Woks don't retain enough heat to work on electric stoves - I have a flat-bottom wok and much prefer to use a pan with a heavier bottom.
Miia Mustang@alessandro@mstdn.ca :o
I haven't ran into that issue before with woks! But it's true the wok might struggle a bit in heating all the way through due to smaller surface area that's against the stove!!
Alessandro Corazza 🇨🇦@miiamustang@eliitin-some.fi Yes I think that's the issue, the small flat part gets hot but the sides don't receive any heat at all (unlike on a gas stove where the flames go up the side of the wok)
Electric stoves are also much less hot than gas ones and because the wok is too thin to retain much heat, the temperature fluctuates a lot as you add things, especially if they're a bit cold.
Personally I almost never use my wok for those reasons... I much prever a very large ceramic pan with thick bottom, especially for things where consistently high temperatures are important, like fried rice.