Few cooking styles captivate quite like stir-frying in a wok. Elements like the fragrant smoke, licks of the flame, and constant clangs lend a visceral appeal unique to the style. And even involved ...

Cooking food with an Asian-style wok is a healthy alternative to using a traditional frying pan. The wok is a beautifully constructed and versatile piece of cookware that should have a place in every ...

Wok tossing is essential for making a good fried rice -- or so claim a group of researchers. The researchers became interested in the physics of cooking and, seeking to satiate their curiosity, they ...

In a restaurant kitchen, it’s all about economy of motion on the line — whether chopping an onion or giving an insouciant flick of a sauté pan to give the ingredients a parabolic toss, cooks are ...

Physicists have paired China’s long culinary history with kinematics in order to “identify an optimal regime for making fried rice.” To do this, they studied five restaurant chefs, using slow-motion ...

Need a pan that can deep fry, sear, braise, and steam? The wok might be the pan you're looking for. When you think of a wok, you might imagine a large, dark bowl engulfed in flames—and while that's ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 19, 2018 -- Wok tossing is essential for making a good fried rice -- or so claim a group of researchers presenting new work at the American Physical Society's Division of ...