LCI-19008 Light Cast Iron Wok Pre-Seasoned Non-Stick with Stainless Steel Handles, 14", Black

I used the wok as per the instructions given. On my 2nd use everything started to stick to the wok and it is barely usable. I oiled it between uses and followed the instructions on seasoning and what to do. Now food just sticks to it. If avoid this as it seems to have a lot of mixed review and unfortunately mine began to stick.

This is my favorite piece of cookware. IMPORTANT the vegetable oil based seasoning flakes off, but is hard to remove. Plan to have a wire brush to take it off. Plan to spend a very long time with the wire brush. Or to wait to have vegetable oil flakes in your food for a while. The round groves that are in the wok do not seem to make sticking an issue at all eggs slide around immediately. After striping and reseasoning the black flakes haven't come back. I don't think you have to get rid of all of the original seasoning, just spend an hour with the wire brush and then clean thoroughly. The groves are useful to hold things to the side on purpose. I am not sure how they achieved this, while also having the groves not create unwanted sticking, but they did. Things just kind of stay where you want them to stay and move easily when you want them to move. The stainless steel handles stay cool within reason. The helper handle can get very toasty, but only with long periods on very high heat. The part of the longer handle near the bowl of the wok can also get pretty toasty when long periods are used with very high heat. I still haven't needed a mit for stove top use. The part of the long handle not next to the bowl does not seem to get hot in any reasonable stove top usage. The handles are oven safe. I baked my wok at 400 for an hour and saw no issues. Take caution if you do this as this will cause the handles to get very dangerously hot. I wanted to take off a star for the hours, yes hours it took to strip this wok. They somehow made a seasoning that can't stand up to a minute with an egg, but takes hours to strip on purpose. Really this is a 4.5 star product. I can't take off more than half a star because at least the flakes are just burned vegetable oil. Something our bodies should be able to get rid of with no long term effects. The carbon steel wok is covered in some kind of varnish-like clear coating that is both clear and poisonous or at least seems like its poisonous as it stinks when it burns off. I know this because it was clear, and as a result I didn't know I had failed at taking it off. I wish it would have been red or orange, or some other color that artificial non-stick coatings are not, and yet obvious. Anyway I was much happier with this wok than that one, and even though this natural coating was extremely hard to take about half off all at once, the thing looks and works beautifully. I mean it is a real stunner. It will eventually be all black again, but right now it's about half black and copper (colored), but not splotchy. And the handles pretty much stay cool, nothing without non-stick coatings by De Buyer can come close for any amount of money. You could buy 4-5 of these pans for the cost of the closest thing that is made in France or the USA.

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The pan comes pre-seasoned, which I presume means that they burn some oil onto it before sending it out. It doesn’t appear to have any coatings on it, as such. It isn’t as non-stick as a teflon coated pan, but I like that I can heat it very hot, without worrying about damaging any coatings. Heavier than a coat and aluminium pan, but quite acceptable.

not bad not great just soso

good product if you know how to use it, and good valué too.