Cooking Oil for use in a Wok
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Caporegime
Sunflower.
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Rapeseed oil for us with the wok 
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Rapeseed oil get used in the wok we use
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Indeed. Peanut oil if we have none of the former. Supermarket-bought sesame flavours the food overly, IMO.
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Food section imo.
Caporegime
This reminds me, I must watch Ching He Huang again.
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You didn't make the mistake of using olive oil; you made the mistake of not preping the wok properly.
There should definitely be no black carbon deposits with any cooking oil.
Sounds like you got the wok/oil too hot.
What exactly were you try to cook in the wok?
There should definitely be no black carbon deposits with any cooking oil.
Sounds like you got the wok/oil too hot.
What exactly were you try to cook in the wok?
Woks are supposed to be used hot and good quality olive oil has an extremely low smoke point compared to almost all other oils.
I've had one of those once.
And +1 on peanut/groundnut oil burns off quite cleanly, also it's composition doesn't change for the worst unlike other oils.
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1. Soybean Oil (the most commonly used oil in China). The flavour is not too powerful, and is not too expensive.
2. Peanut Oil (Increased flavour, but a lot more expensive out here).
3. Sunflower Oil (hardly ever used in Chinese cooking, but becoming slightly more available out here - I only use this in western cooking).
Sesame oil - quite expensive out here, and only used in splashes to enhance the flavours.
Olive oil - at £10 per 1 ltr bottle minimum, it's hardly ever used out here. I use it only to enhance the flavours of certain western dishes.
I have no idea what ground nut oil is - is it the same as peanut oil?
2. Peanut Oil (Increased flavour, but a lot more expensive out here).
3. Sunflower Oil (hardly ever used in Chinese cooking, but becoming slightly more available out here - I only use this in western cooking).
Sesame oil - quite expensive out here, and only used in splashes to enhance the flavours.
Olive oil - at £10 per 1 ltr bottle minimum, it's hardly ever used out here. I use it only to enhance the flavours of certain western dishes.
I have no idea what ground nut oil is - is it the same as peanut oil?
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I use vegetable oil with a splash of toasted sesame oil to flavour the food.
Uh, isn't the whole point of stir frying to make stir fried food, where sesame oil is one of the key flavours?
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be a man and use lard!
but I use sesame oil I love the smell and tatse
but I use sesame oil I love the smell and tatse