How to Prepare a wok for operation

Recently, I really like and find interesting tips before you write an article about them, test. This time I got to the kitchen utensils - our cheap and not very high quality of the wok. I found interesting advice on how to make such an inferior wok, which will last a long time and from which the prepared dish will not have to tear off the efforts of the whole family. Read - done!

I warn you once, it will be very much smoke and the smell is not very pleasant. So I gently corrected the process, given our small apartment, poor drawing and nervous neighbors.

After quite a long search of the wok for a trial, I settled on the simplest of the IKEA, which cost just under $ 10. I understand that it's not as high quality as those walky-talkies, that I found in specialized stores (starting from $ 100 and up). As you know, to buy such an expensive thing, without being completely sure that I like to cook Thai and Chinese dishes, it would be an unforgivable extravagance. Therefore, the cheapest option was selected. It is a pity that I did not find this article before, as its first wok I'm still a little bit spoiled. The error has been corrected. Outwardly, he is now in the window will not pull, but now it does not stick to anything, and the food does not stick!

So, cheap woks are mostly made of carbon steel, and the smell of them with machine oil and more than a technical one. You need to get rid of the smell of the frying pan and prepare for full use.

How to harden the wok

1. The first thing to do - clean your wok on the contrary, the smell of machine oil and a topcoat. Wash it thoroughly with soap and hot water, and then use of washcloth metal pozhostche to scrape upper spraying. Ideal for the difficult lessons of suitable steel brush and, as an option, sandpaper.

2. Open all the windows, turn on the hood, place the wok on the stove and pour any vegetable oil odorless. Ideal refined sunflower oil - the less there is left of this sunflower oil is better.

Once the oil starts to warm up, the bottom pan begins to darken. The entire inner surface of the wok must be completely covered with oil. I will say from my own experience: do not need much to pour oil, otherwise it will be awful smoke and stink! It is better to gradually add the butter and gently daub walls of the wok with a paper towel and anything with a long handle (I reeled in the wooden spatula).

Author of the post advises calcined for 15 minutes. I could not stand it for so long. My conclusion: the first session lasted 10 minutes, the second - 7 minutes, and threatened to expel from the apartment on the third me. Then you need to turn off the stove, wok to cool, rinse it with water and start again calcined oil. Very dark is only the bottom surface of the rest of the color will look like burnt caramel. Smell, by the way, as well. Author firsthand calms us that the entire pan will darken over time. And the food will stick less and less each time. I tested the following two prokalok - practically does not stick. And compared with the way to the surface of the wok food stuck in its original form, the pan works best twice.

Test the pan vegetables:

The test pans of meat:

Nothing stuck and not burnt. In general, the wok has started to work better than before such treatment.

My personal conclusion: if you have the opportunity to buy an expensive and high-quality dishes. If you're like me, you know that the minimum price of $ 100 is not a guarantee that your cooperation will be fruitful and will last for a long time, try this option. If everything happens, your family will forgive you this little mess in the kitchen and will enjoy Asian cuisine.

Soap and then also not recommended to wash. The author advises simply wipe with a paper towel, and if you're ready for something very fat, you can add a little salt and then rinse well.

And please, before you start, make sure your pan is made of carbon steel. We would not want you to spend so much energy is wasted and spoiled the wok. If you do not know, but the purchase was made long ago - search the web from this manufacturer, and carefully read the description.