Supor Traditional-Craft Pumpkin-Pattern Refined Iron Wok 26cm | Uncoated, Rust-Resistant · Deep-Bellied · With Glass Lid

After a few years abroad, the hardest thing to recreate in a British kitchen turns out to be one word: wok hei.

This Supor pumpkin-pattern iron wok is 26cm — a household size that handles daily stir-frying, searing and griddling for one to four people. The uncoated fine-iron body takes a metal spatula without complaint; scratch it all you like.

The traditionally crafted pumpkin-ridged surface gathers oil and conducts heat, letting oil settle along the grooves so frying heats evenly. The more you cook, the more seasoned and glossy it grows — the sort of wok that follows you from your master's degree into working life.

Afraid of non-stick coatings peeling, but put off by how rough and needy ordinary iron can be? Branded fine iron covers both ends: after everyday cooking, rinse with hot water, dry, wipe on a thin film of oil, done.

A little recipe

• Chilli-fried pork: heat the wok, swirl oil to coat, render sliced pork belly until the fat runs, then green chillies and garlic on high heat for ten-odd seconds — serve while the wok hei is alive.
• Egg-fried rice: hot wok, cool oil, day-old rice tossed over a high flame until every grain wears its own coat of egg.

Flavours of home

Hunan chilli-fried pork and stir-fried yellow beef; Sichuan-Chongqing twice-cooked pork and cured pork with garlic shoots; Cantonese beef chow fun and black-bean-chilli spare ribs; northeastern di san xian; Jiangnan stir-fried prawns; northwestern cumin lamb — half of Chinese cooking is stir-fried, and this wok is the foundation under that half of the empire.

Specifications: 26cm | uncoated fine iron | pumpkin-pattern surface

Notes: dispatched from our UK warehouse

A taste of home, in a foreign kitchen.