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Wok Tossing

Inquiry: 

If you don’t mind me asking a question, with the leg stabilizer is it pretty sturdy enough to do wok tossing? Or if I decide to put it on a hard surface (i.e. table) instead of using leg, would it be safe enough to do wok tossing without the burner moving? 

Outdoorstirfry: 

When tossing, we always advise to lift the wok fully up away from the stove before tossing.  This should release the stove from being affected.   Purposely tossing by using the stove edge, even with the stove stabilizers properly installed under heavy objects or short leg version on a table, will end up the stove falling over, creating a fire hazard.   However, we understand that tossing can’t be perfect every time, the stove should be able to handle slight carry-away situation with stabilizers under heavy objects or a short leg stove sitting on a table.  

We have customers building the short leg version stove into their outdoor cooking surface (mostly a thick concrete piece) by cutting a hole on the cooking surface and sinking the stove fully down into the hole.   In this way the stove edge can by fully utilized for tossing as the entire stove is secured by a sturdy heavy cooking surface.   This is like a restaurant cooking surface seen in most videos for tossing.