Lightweight Flat-Bottom Cast Iron Wok (Sichuan Heritage Brand) - The Mala Market

May 31,2024

We are expecting a new shipment of this wok in mid February. Sign up above to be notified. If you love cooking in cast iron skillets or dutch ovens, you are going to love cooking in a cast iron wok just as much. And because it is lightweight Sichuan cast iron, you don't have to worry about the one and only downside to cast iron cookware, which is weight. Wok pros in the U.S. are unanimous in recommending a 14-inch, flat-bottom, carbon steel "pow" wok, with a long handle and a helper handle. We agree with all of that except that a wok must be carbon steel. It's true that American-made cast iron is very heavy, with the wok made by the best known brand weighing in at nearly 13 pounds! But Chinese cast iron weighs a fraction of what American does—our 14-inch, flat-bottom pow