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Default Can you WOK on an electric coil stovetop?

Omelet wrote:

> In article >, "Mr. G D Geen"
> > wrote:
>
> > Andy wrote:
> > > Do I need a flat bottomed wok or what? How hot does a wok need to
> > > get to do stir-frying?
> > >
> > > Andy

> > Someone else mentioned having a glass top stove here. Any of you
> > have any experience with a wok/ring on a glass top stove. I was
> > thinking of getting my parents a wok but I am not really fond of
> > the "electric" wok if you know what I mean. If they work fine on
> > the glass top surface I would like to get them for Christmas this
> > year. -G

>
> The manual that comes with my stove does not recommend it...
>
> That is why we bought the electric one.
>
> I could not bear to use it. I gave it away.
>
> I stir fry in a CI skillet and that works fine. Who needs a wok?


The sides of a skillet are too low to allow really good stir-frying.




Brian

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