Re: Request: Wok
From Veronica Karlsson <dre...@on.spammer>
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· 15 Sep 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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Glory Moon wrote: > [ 8< ] > mom said: > we call it a handle-pan rather than a wok. it's smaller in size, which > is only capable of "small scale" frying, e.g. frying an egg. not big > enough for frying for a decent dish. > traditional woks r made of iron. and there r also some made of > stainless steel. (iron?! i doubted, so i tested ours with a magnet. > it's iron) > Don't worry, there's iron in stainless steel (try that magnet on something you know is stainless steel...). You can recognise stainless steel on that it is polished and shiny and doesn't rust quite as easily as ordinairy steel (which, btw, also contains iron). Actually, what you call "iron" is steel (pure iron is a brown powder that is quite useless until you mix it with carbon to create steel...). -- _ __ __ _ _ __ ___.--'_`. \ \ / /__ _ _ ___ _ _ (_)__ __ _ .'_`--.___ __ ( _`.'. - 'o` ) \ V / -_) '_/ _ \ ' \| / _/ _` | ( 'o` - .`.'_ ) _\.'_' _.-' \_/\___|_| \___/_||_|_\__\__,_| `-._ `_`./_ ( \`. ) //\` '/\\ ( .'/ ) \_`-'`---'\\__, uggc://jjj.yhqq.yhgu.fr/~ix/ ,__//`---'`-'_/ \` `-\ r93...@fz.yhgu.fr /-' '/ ` ascii art chat: http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/cgi/asciichat/ '
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