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Originally Posted by javadog
As someone who first tasted Chinese food when growing up in Asia 50 years ago and who has cooked it himself for 30 or 40 years, let me point out to all of the newbies that you don't need to spend 150 bucks on a wok to cook good Chinese food.
Given tabs' propensity for shopping at the thrift stores, to get something for one cent on the dollar, I'm surprised he advocates this nonsense.
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Granted a good factory made Carbon Steel that you can buy for lets say $45 in the states will do everything a hand made CEN RO will do.
I knew I could get a CEN RO hand made at William Somona for $175, and I wanted to see if if I could beat the William Sonoma price by going factory direct. I did buy one from William Sonoma in the advent that I couldn't get one from Shanghai, once our deal was confirmed I took it back.
My unit cost into the 4 CEN RO's that I bought was $67 each. 2 14", 1 16", 1 18". I sold a 14" for $450 on Ebay. Subtract the $450 minus Ebay fees from the $270 that I had in the 4 Woks, and you get about $120 cash profit and 3 WOKS that are PAID FOR.
CANT BEAT THAT NOW CAN YOU? I did plan on selling one of the WOKS because my Chinese friend changed her mind after the order was placed. I did get real lucky on the timing as I had no idea that it would sell for so much money.
What I did have a feeling about and why I expedited getting on with this project was the notion that the CEN RO's might not be in biz much longer...and THAT GIVEN their almost cult status that they would be a desirable commodity.. JUST LIKE OLD FERRARI'S...same principle.
Let us not mention that I like cooking with them to. They are something a bit different and thus special.