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"We chose to launch an all new category - Value Woks, keeping in mind our customers' discerning palate.

Aside from using gas, you can also make use of electric heating elements for woks. Although usage of gas can provide even heat at the bottom of the wok, the electric stove is much needed in a household kitchen.

'To season your carbon-steel wok, scrub it with a scourer, then heat it over a high heat until it turns dark blue.

The report by Public Health England (PHE) confirms food safety experts have found signs that the salmonella illnesses at Woks Cooking, as well as a series of other cases across Europe, were linked to eggs from a German supplier.

Typhoon US, which makes woks and other Asian products, agrees.

Stir-fry pans, a modern cookware term for any rounded wok-like pan meant for cooking cut-up ingredients over high heat, are typically smaller than traditional woks. Carbon steel is still considered the best metal to use.

But if you don't want to slave over a hot wok, try Waitrose's Oriental range, which includes appetisers, soups, main meals, rice and meals for one or two.

You choose your dish in raw form and watch the chefs cook it in huge woks.

The most useful piece of equipment is the wok, which is easier to use than a frying pan because its depth makes it easier to toss foods quickly without spilling them.

So we've checked seven popular woks on sale in the high street.

Today it's woks, tomorrow it's wax for your floor."

The Woks Cooking eatery, in Richard Hesketh Drive, Westvale, in Kirkby, was shut down last month.

HOT woks and sizzling curry pans are just as likely to cause fires in Merseyside as the notorious chip pan.

Some woks have a non-stick coating, which is useful but not essential - and you get what you pay for.

That influence has helped drive sales not only of woks, but also of Asian cooking gadgets, knives, tea-making accessories and serveware.