I worked at home yesterday as our new stove was being delivered. It’s an Electrolux Chef. Our handy man, who is a qualified gas fitter came over and hooked it up today. I was out at the time, shopping for my friend MK’s birthday present. Apparently I missed all the fun of cleaning behind the old stove before the new one was installed in the space – Jac said she found a few ghastly and unidentifiable but unmistakably organic bits mutating there. Heheheh. The best bit about the new stove (besides that it is so shiny, new and CLEAN) is the wok burner. I’ve NEVER owned or used a stove with a proper wok burner before! This is quite an upgrade for our tiny little kitchen.
Friday evening we went over to Jac’s brother’s place. Here’s the birthday card I received from Brad, Kelsie and the kids. Heheheh. I got a Coles-Myer gift card as my pressie. The Myer Big Brand sale is on now… or maybe I’ll wait for a Kmart 15% off sale day. Hmmm. These new gift cards are valid for two years, so there’s plenty of time to decide :).
Jac and I then went to have dinner at our favourite food hall. I am so so addicted to this particular combination! I’ve eaten the same two dishes the last three times now! On the left is the chee cheong fun (rice flour roll), on the right the loh mai kai (glutinous chicken rice). I’ve posted about these two dishes before here and here.
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For about $130 you can have a full outdoor wok burner setup ( large cast iron wok holder with integral high pressure burner, piezo electric startup, plumbing and a full 9kg gas bottle )
We don’t cook indoors much anymore. Stand out in the garden. Flame away for a couple of minutes and you’re done.
Domestic wok burners just don’t cut it when you’ve got a burner that can really stir fry ! It puts out about 8x more heat than your kitchen wok burners :P
Maybe you might want to think about it.
Hi Andrew, thanks for the suggestion.
My parents cook outside using the wok burner + gas bottle on their barbie. We’ll use our new stove wok burner for a while and see how it works out, seeing as we paid for it and it’s there to be used. We do cook dinner on our barbecue too sometimes in summer. Our old stove has been dying for some time now, so the new wok burner will be a noticeable improvement – so even though an outdoor wok burner setup would be brilliant, the domestic work burner will probably be enough of an upgrade for now. :)