Customer Reviews

Joyce Chen J31-0063 Chrome Steel Wire Wok Ring

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I'd been wanting one of these for ages, so was eager to try it out on the stove - but it was a disappointment in the end. It slides around a lot, so never feels particularly safe (although I guess to be fair this has as much to do with the stove as anything; others may have better luck with that aspect), and raises the wok too high above the flame for my purposes. I've found it's easier to balance the wok on the burner, and to use the wok ring as a stand on the table - for which purpose it works perfectly!

I ordered this wire wok ring.The wire was broken in two places, and very poorly made.I was very disapointed with it.My husband said he could try to fix it, but I said it's not worth it, nor wasting my time sending it back.

Solid construction. Plenty of airflow for gas burner and heat rising up the sides of a wok.

The distance between the bottom of your wok and the burner will depend on the curvature of your wok. So, it may or may not be the proper diameter/height depending on the curvature of your wok and how high your burner sits.

On my Heartland range, I remove the grate and put this ring directly on the part of the cooktop that contains spills and boiled over liquids. As a result, the ring is very steady and the bottom of my wok sits just a fraction of an inch from the inner flame of my burner; the positioning is perfect!

I've tried other rings and none of them worked. Basically, all the others are short, solid aluminum or steel chimneys with a few holes for air circulation. But, this chimney style of wok is for electric ranges, not gas. They don't provide for enough oxygen for my high-BTU burner. And, the heat is trapped in within the chimney so it doesn't lap up the sides of the wok. The bottom center of the wok gets warm/hot but the rest stays cold.

If you want a wok ring for a gas range, you must get a wire one like this. And the only wire ring I can find is this brand, Joyce Chen.

I bought this wire style Wok ring because we have a high end restaurant quality gas range with 18,000 BTU burners, and the more typical sheet metal Wok Rings get red hot and deform when cooking at high temps with our various Woks. This ring looked in the photo to be what we were looking for and Joyce Chen stuff tends to make good products, but on receiving it were disappointed to discover that the ring was poorly made and was also much shorter in height than other Wok rings. I assumed based on the selling price that this would be a high quality product, but instead the wire was not spot welded at the joint and didn't match up to the other end making the ring not sit flat so it wobbled when placed on the stove grate.

In the end we returned this to Amazon for a refund and bought a much higher quality wire Wok ring from The Wok Shop in San Francisco for only $2.95 plus shipping! (Just type the name of the shop into Google for a link)

So... Save you money on this junk and buy what we ended up buying instead!

This is a nice, well made wok ring. It is much lighter weight than I had hoped and so isn't quite as steady on my stove - slides around a little. I think it would be better for a smaller wok but it's not really very stable with a 14" one. I will probably use it as a stand. I do like the design which allows for the flame to hit evenly on the entire bottom of the wok. It's make of polished stainless steel so is easy to clean when you slop something on it.

I bought this Wok Ring in spite of some bad comments made regarding its stability and durability. Well maybe I am just lucky but I have had neither problem with mine. The connections are solid, the metal firm, and the base stable with a wok on it (just so I don't get too TV-chef crazy with it). Definitely a must-have if you're using a wok over a gas stove.

This wok ring will serve as a stop-gap until I change my cooktop for one with a built-in wok burner. It will not be discarded, as it is a practical & stylish wok support for the benchtop.

The first ring I ordered had one badly welded post (at the top ring). I exchanged it (thanks Amazon) and the second one was even worse... three posts badly aligned, two of them not even welded. Even if the workmanship had been perfect, the bottom ring did not fit over the burner ring on my electric stove top, and I also noticed that the wok would not sit level due to the ring being too smooth. I gave up and ordered one of the others (cheaper, holes versus the open design).

This ring would work with a number of the stir fry pans sold here, but I bought it to work with the Simply Calphalon Hard-Anodized Nonstick 9-1/2-Inch Stir-Fry Pan, which some raters had rated as tipsy. It works perfectly for that.

They invented the warm water. It is very good to cook with WOK. It stay firm on the kitchen, very useful.