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Fourteen Different Uses for a Wok

Put Your Wok to Use Even When You're Not Cooking Chinese Food

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It's great for tossing a salad. Plenty of room with that wide top and surface.
From Jo-Ann

Woks are great for making taco filling or any of the rice-and-pea sort of dishes...
From Yosemite

Since using a wok on an electric stove is cumbersome and inefficient, my wok now serves as an elegant flower pot, decorating my garden area, resplendent with impatience, luxuriating in its "new" life.
From Marcia

A 14-inch wok is perfect for mixing batters and kneading dough.
From Jo-Ann

A wok is great for scrambling eggs, especially in large quantities (although I've used the wok for as few as three eggs). The eggs cook almost instantaneously, with no sticking, even if you've pre-cooked some vegetables before adding the eggs to the wok.
From Phoebe

I have two stainless, lightweight woks on hooks in my kitchen -- one 14 inches, the other about 8 or 10 inches. I am using them constantly for mixing things. Last evening I was mincing some leftover beef for a spread for sandwiches, and I used the small one. When I make meat loaf - down comes the bigger one. When you have to season or flour stuff - onions, potatoes, whatever - nothing beats these woks. I sometimes put them into the sink (over the drain which helps stabilize them) and use the big one for cutting corn off the ear.
From Jo-Ann

We use an electric wok for beef fondue. It beats a regular fondue set - no denatured alcohol burning (and smelling), and a bigger pot. Works like a champ! Just be sure to watch that no one trips over the electric cord...
From Darhl Stultz

When I'm having a Mexican-style get together I use mine (set on very low heat) to keep tortillas warm.

It makes a dandy room freshener - put some water and a piece of lemon, orange, lime, cinnamon stick, etc, and put it on low heat.

I have also put mesquite chips in mine, lay a rack over it, and used it to impart a quick mesquite smoked flavor to quail (a la the Chinese dish where you use tea instead of mesquite and chicken instead of quail). Just make sure you have a good exhaust fan. Also, putting foil in the bottom makes cleanup a LOT easier.
Three Suggestions From Craig Moore

I've often used my wok (electric with silverstone lining) as a steamer. I put an empty tuna fish can, both ends cut out, a pan on top of that, and a little water on the bottom. I still do halibut this way, with a little bit on ginger and garlic.
From Ellen Scott

You can roast green coffee beans in a wok, though you need to do so outside (lots of smoke).
From Melanie Uy

A wok is great for steaming lobster.
Mark Hessey

A good use for a wok is to make spaghetti. People often make the mistake of putting sauce on spaghetti. Italians always put spaghetti into a sauce and then combine the two. A wok is ideal for this - the sauce can be cooked in the wok while the spaghetti is boiling, and then the drained spaghetti can be added.
From Zbyszek

Finally, for myself, I find nothing beats a wok for preparing an omelet, whether it's a plain cheese omelet or a western-style omelet loaded with ham and vegetables.

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