When I was 11, my Irish American stepdad came home with a $10 wok and a used paperback Chinese cookbook. Chinese food was a treat reserved for the rare occasions when we ate out at local Cantonese ...

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.

Wok-style cooking requires quick heat adjustments, a hot center and cooler edges, a material where proteins can tumble and fry in a touch-and-go manner, and something light enough to lift and move.

Now you're ready to cook. You know where to shop for Chinese ingredients and which pantry basics to pick up. But after that, how to get cooking if you've never used a wok?

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 ...

Whether you’re buying a wok for the first time or you’re a seasoned wok user, Consumer Reports offers tips on how to choose and use your wok.

Cooking Asian Many ways many foods but Just hot sweet sour salt Putting into a few hundred words “the basics of Asian cooking,” the overall aim of today’s column, is such a very Western ...

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