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How to season a carbon steel wok? The Easy Method!

How to season a carbon steel wok ?  A lot of people apply the technique the wrong way and end up ruining the wok.  So I am showing how to do the process step by step the right way.  I've got a new wok and guess what I have to do I have to season it and I thought this would be a great opportunity to show you how to seasonal wok as well. Seasoning is not grease seasoning is definitely not flavor or salt or anything like that that you're putting on the pan.  Seasoning is a very thin coating of oil that is polymerized you have oil molecules and if you heat them enough they link together and go from being a greasy liquid to being a dry plastic like solid. If you notice the color of the metal of a new unseasoned wok, it's gray like gunmetal gray. Why is this not rusting well because it shipped from the manufacturer with some kind of protective coating on it that's not seasoning. For comparison I have a wok that has already been seasoned a bit it can be se...

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