Learn how to buy a wok, how to season a wok, and the best recipes to use to start cooking at home with a wok.

A Beginner's Guide To Choosing The Best Wok To Transform Your Stir-Fry A wok is a deep round-bottomed cooking vessel with a Chinese heritage. It is used in several types of cooking.

With just a little elbow grease, you can get your wok in tip-top shape for making stir-fries, fried rice and more.

Published in 2006, Eileen Yin-Fei Lo's sweet, personal book about learning to cook with her grandmother is a lovely way in to the world of Chinese cooking, especially for nervous beginners.

Wok cooking requires some precision and special attention. Even if you’ve done it before, there are a few tips and tricks that can make a big difference. For example, the type of oil you cook ...

A great wok gives you deliciously seared stir-fries at home—but that's just the beginning. Pros know that the pan is also suited to many cooking techniques, from steaming dumplings and pan ...

Beginner's cookbooks, like "How to Cook Everything" by Mark Bittman, generally don’t require expensive, fancy equipment to complete recipes. Maybe one day, but you don't need them as a novice.

What's The Best Beginner's Cookbook? Read More Voting was tight all weekend long, but ultimately How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman took the top spot in our poll with close to 28% of the vote.

Give your wok a “facial” with salt and oil to help clean and condition it. Scott Suchman / The Washington Post Food writer Grace Young tells Washington Post’s Kristen Hartke about the basics ...