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Subject: Re: Request: Wok
Date: 1998/09/17
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Veronica Karlsson wrote:
> 
> Glory Moon wrote:
> > [ 8< ]
> > mom said:
> > we call it a handle-pan rather than a wok. it's smaller in size, which
> > is only capable of "small scale" frying, e.g. frying an egg. not big
> > enough for frying for a decent dish.
> > traditional woks r made of iron. and there r also some made of
> > stainless steel. (iron?! i doubted, so i tested ours with a magnet.
> > it's iron)
> >
> 
> Don't worry, there's iron in stainless steel (try that magnet on
> something you know is stainless steel...). You can recognise stainless
> steel on that it is polished and shiny and doesn't rust quite as easily
> as ordinairy steel (which, btw, also contains iron). Actually, what you
> call "iron" is steel (pure iron is a brown powder that is quite useless
> until you mix it with carbon to create steel...).

Iron is a brown powder??? Hmmm, sounds like rust to me ( Oxidized Iron )
 =)

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