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You aren't cooking many things if all you're using is a wok.
A wok is simultaneously a frying pan, a sauce pan, a soup pot, and a deep frier, when not in use. It's Schrodinger's kitchen appliance.
I'm a former chef that was trained in over 10 styles of food prep. I just don't bake much.
Woks don't have buttons! How the hell do you expect to deep fry things without any buttons!? I've seen into the back of a McDonald's before, their deep fryers have buttons and beep and shit. If a wok ever beeped at me, I wouldn't think "oh, fries are done," I'd think, "am I going insane?"
Unless you're using one as a helmet, in which case it's more of a ding than a beep, but it means it just saved your life and you should tip your blacksmith. You should also probably clean the wok before you use it to sear something and set it aside or bake cookies or anything, though.
You just pout oil in it, bring the oil up to temp, and set a timer when you drop the food in. Just like deep frying in a pot at home
A wok is great for searing stuff and then putting some of it aside, so that you can cook several things at once. Nothing else has ever come close to it.
But that's the limit of the wok. It's a fucking amazing device, but it's not the ultimate cooking ninja super appliance that does it all.
Ummmm wow. Wasn't aware that the 7 wok stove that I cooked on daily for a decade was just for searing things and setting them aside. I guess the chicken broth in the center wok, and all the frying of the frying wok should stop existing since a French cook is trying to tell Chinese cooks how to use their own invention.
jokes on you, i am