As you probably know by now, we love to cook at home. Indian, Italian and French dishes rub shoulders with traditional English classics. One of our favourites is Chinese; we currently have two large woks – one for veg and the other for fish and meat. Nothing beats a wok if you’re making a mixed stir fry or an egg fried rice. However, making the latter in our current woks is a horrendous experience, the rice sticks to the inside very badly.

We’ve had enough… we’re after a couple of decent carbon steel woks that makes cooking fried rice a pleasure, not a pain! We use them so often, we know exactly what we want – carbon steel rather than aluminium or Teflon-coated, a long handle so we can toss properly, a hanging hook to store it out of the way and finally, the higher the sides and larger the size the better.

1. Typhoon® carbon steel signature wok, ∅36cm: £24.99, Lakeland
2. John Lewis wok set, ∅35cm: £35, John Lewis
3. Swift carbon steel wok, ∅34cm: £16.46, Divertimenti
4. Ken Hom Tao Plus carbon steel wok, ∅36cm: £29.99, Argos
5. Flat-based carbon steel wok, ∅36cm & wooden handled wok shovel: £17.50 eBay