What is the diameter of the wok used at home?

Household woks are generally about the same size, with a larger size of 50cm and a smaller size of 30cm. There is no uniform norm. Iron pot is a traditional kitchenware for cooking food. Generally, it does not contain toxic substances, but it will be oxidized when exposed to water for a long time. The main varieties of iron pots are printing pots, ear pots, flat pots, oil pots and pancake pots. The main component is iron, but also contains a small amount of sulfur, phosphorus, manganese, silicon, carbon and so on.

Iron pots can be divided into raw iron pots and cooked iron pots: the raw iron pot is made by melting gray iron and casting it with a model; Cooked iron pan is forged with black iron sheet or knocked by hand, which has the characteristics of thin pot blank and fast heat transfer.

Pots are made of a variety of materials, whether metal materials, enamel or casserole, which may contain a certain amount of toxic substances. If not properly selected and used, these toxic substances will enter the human body with food and endanger health. In contrast, wok cooking is the healthiest. Iron pots are mostly made of pig iron, which contains almost no heavy metal elements harmful to human body and is durable.

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Precautions for using iron pan:

1. Deodorization with new iron pan. The new iron pot has a strange smell. Before use, empty the pot with fire, then add hot water and vegetable scraps and cook for a quarter of an hour, and the strange smell will be removed.

2. In addition to the oily smell in the fried pot, boiling water will also have oily smell. If you put a pair of unpainted chopsticks in the boiling water pot, the smell of oil can be eliminated.

3. In addition to the fishy smell of pork, when stewing pork or sparerib soup, adding a few pieces of orange peel to the pot can remove the fishy smell and oily feeling and increase the umami taste of the soup.

You can put some sweet potato skins in the pot for a while, and then pour out the washing pot, which can remove the iron smell of the new iron pot.

5. Iron pots or other fishy utensils should be washed and dried with clear water, and then wiped with 10 ~ 15g liquor. After drying, the fishy smell can be removed.

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