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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wok
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
heat
▪ Drain and rinse well with cold water. Heat oil in wok.
▪ To cook the crab sauce: Heat the wok and add the oil.
▪ Drain and pat dry. Heat wok, add 3 tablespoons oil.
▪ Pat dry with paper towels. Heat oil in 14-inch wok or large skillet until smoky.
▪ Transfer to a plate and cover to keep warm. Heat a wok or a heavy skillet over high heat.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Heat wok, add 3 tablespoons oil.
▪ Heat a wok or large frying pan until hot.
▪ Place in a hot heavy-based pan or wok and cook until lightly browned, stirring occasionally.
▪ Pour off the oil, leaving two tablespoons in the wok.
▪ Stir into liquid remaining in wok.
▪ To cook quail, pour oil to a depth of at least 1 inch into a heavy-bottomed frying pan or wok.
▪ To cook the crab sauce: Heat the wok and add the oil.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wok

1952, from Cantonese.

Wiktionary
wok

n. A large, oriental, round-bottomed cooking pan. vb. To prepare oriental cuisine using a ''wok.''

WordNet
wok

n. pan with a convex bottom; used for frying in Chinese cooking

Wikipedia
Wok

A wok ( Cantonese: 鑊; Mandarin Chinese: 炒鍋) is a versatile round-bottomed cooking vessel, originating from China. The use of the wok is very prevalent in South China (particularly Guangdong Province). It is one of the most common cooking utensils in China and also found in parts of East, South and Southeast Asia, as well as becoming a popular niche cookware in all the world.

Woks are used in a range of different Chinese cooking techniques, including stir frying, steaming, pan frying, deep frying, poaching, boiling, braising, searing, stewing, making soup, smoking and roasting nuts. Wok cooking is done with a long handle called chahn ( spatula) or hoak ( ladle). The long handles of these utensils allow cooks to work with the food without burning their hands.

Usage examples of "wok".

She loved her oversized, fire engine red stove imported from France, her Cuisinart, espresso machine, Belgian waffler, pasta maker, her Magnalite pots and pans, Henckels knives, cast-iron bakeware, microwave, and even her electric wok.

When he woke up from his dream he 185 believed this was his fate, until he glanced at the millet soup cooking in the wok, and realised that he was in truth just an ordinary man and the things he had dreamt were too good to be true.

Peking squirrel with hoisin sauce, chipmunks cubed in a dry wok, and chinchilla chow fun.

For a severely nauseated stomach and vomiting, before simmering the ginger slices stir-fry them in a wok or skillet until they are lightly browned.

It included a sizzling wok filled with unidentifiable wriggly vegetables.

After depositing the hairtail on the counter, he set the lightly oiled wok on the gas burner to heat and started a pot of jasmine rice.

Gertrud Woker, in a paper on this subject contributed to an enquiry by the Interparliamentary Union in 1931, gave a useful summary of the existing state of knowledge at that time.

I left Phnom Penh I could have written a Cambodian cookbook called 50 Ways to Wok Your Dog.

Newman made his way through the swinging doors at the back of the restaurant, past the chefs and servers stirring woks over a huge gas range with steam tables full of vegetables.

He grabbed the wok by the rim, dumped the contents into a metal pot, and dropped the wok onto another burner.

The immense and spotlessly clean kitchen was filled with ovens, cooktops, griddles, huge woks, deep fryers, warming tables, sinks, chopping blocks.

Goto Dengo dances back and takes half-shelter behind a coconut tree, holding the wok up over his chest like a shield.

She pulled the rubber stopper from an Erlenmeyer flask and poured oil into the bottom of an unpainted metal wok that was heating over an open gas ring.

The chef cast them into the vast wok, added a handful of monosodium gluta mate, whisked them twice and scooped them out, put a handful of steaming peapods on two platters and divided up the pink, glistening succulent prawns on top equally.

She turned on the wok, poured more oil into it, and stood smiling at Gonzales as the oil heated.