30cm Cast Iron Wok
School of Wok · £38
Worth being NRY provisional
Cast iron rather than carbon steel, pre-seasoned, and oven capable as well as hob, for £37.50. The trade is deliberate: it is slower to heat and much slower to cool, so it holds a temperature when a cold handful of vegetables goes in where thin steel would drop. Heavy, which is the price of that.
- For
- Someone who overloads a wok and resents the pan losing heat.
- Not for
- Anyone who tosses food by flicking the pan. This is too heavy for that.
What we checked
- It is pre-seasoned and suits the hob or the oven. Harts of Stur
Marked provisional: the justification rests on 1 source(s); two independent ones is the bar. We publish it anyway and say so, rather than waiting for evidence that may never arrive.