Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?

Re:Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years? by rstupek on Thursday May 20, 2021 @01:09PM (#27223908)

Professional cooks swear by carbon steel pans and they're surprisingly not that expensive.

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Re:Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years? by ska on Thursday May 20, 2021 @01:24PM (#27224133)

Professional cooks use a ton of stuff, and not all of it would be what they choose at home.

Carbon steel is great, requires a little upkeep, but part of what makes it great is how it works with a really high heat source; the stoves in a restaurant behave very differently than your home one.

An extreme case of this is woks. There is very little you can do at home to reproduce the effect of an 80k BTU burner and a carbon steel wok.

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Re:Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years? by greyhair on Friday May 21, 2021 @08:40AM (#27233258)

I agree, 15k BTU is not 80k, but with a little patience on preheating (I don't have waiting customers) I still enjoy working in the wok I own. Also, it is not a restaurant sized wok, but for flash frying chopped food, or getting a nice quick sear, it works great.

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Re:Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years? by basch on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @01:22PM (#27279631)

not a perfect solution but, https://www.wokmon.com/

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Re:Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years? by AdamN on Thursday May 20, 2021 @01:23PM (#27224109)

Yeah I bought one during lockdown and it's great and lower-stick than stainless steel. Better in every way basically.

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