My SO found a recipe for some green tea orange duck she wants to make for Christmas. I have a cast iron wok about 17 years old now and well seasoned.
But, her recipe requires the wok have a lid. So, rather than buying a lid for my wok, she went out and bought a new wok.
I asked her if she knew how to season it. She said, “well, the instructions say something about putting it on the stove and I forget the rest.”
I went and looked at the new wok. It’s teflon.
Should I start divorce proceedings?
Or if you ever need a temporary lid for a pot that doesn’t have one and it doesn’t really need to be super-well-fitting, just slap a cookie sheet on that bad boy. I do it all the time.
I assume the recipe involves hot smoking in green tea?
Never smoke in Teflon, that’s a rule.
Yes.
A teflon wok is an abomination. When one veg is done, and you try to park it up near the top while you cook the next thing, it slides right back down. Get a cast iron wok, and never look back.
When you’re cooking, you can sing along with Train Kept A-rollin, “She taught me to wok this way!” 
It a Joyce Chen Exacilbre non-stick wok. It’s got a 25-year warranty. It’s probably fine for her, but I won’t use it. Just doesn’t seem right.
Why would you need to season a non-stick wok?? 
I have given up Teflon forever. As someone mentioned above, cast iron wok is the way to go, it gets hotter and cooks faster.
Sounds like a good recipe!!!
I asked her if she knew how to season it before I found out it was non-stick. I’m pretty sure she didn’t actually read the instructions and I"m pretty sure you don’t season a non-stick.
I love my cast iron wok, and I’d be happy with a well-used carbon steel one too, but this non-stick thing is an abomination. 
It’ll be interesting to see what happens to the duck.
I think it is dangerous to smoke anything in Teflon, I wouldn’t do it, it might be toxic.
She’s marinating and assembling things now. She’s got a layer of tinfoil in her new wok, and some dry rice & dry green tea spread on it, and a rack over that, so it does look like she’s going to smoke it on the stove top that way. Apparently the duck needs to be finished in the oven and her wok has wooden handles so she’s going to use my wok for the oven part. :rolleyes:
We got into a fight over the damn wok last night and apparently I hit a nerve 'cause I got blasted for everything I’ve ever done or not done over that last ten years. Yeah, one of those fights.
So, she’s on her own. If it smells toxic I’m going to Taco Bell.