Inquiry:
if I purchase the stand (not the long legs) can I slide and toss with stability or would it be shaky? Thank you.
Outdoorstirfry:
We usually recommend putting more weight on the stand bottom shelf to increase stability in case of tossing. A couple examples can be found by clicking on the “Usage Examples” section of the stand product page.
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.
Customer (PF13L160):
Thanks for the guide. I noticed that the legs are stable enough for normal cooking but wobbles when rapidly tossing food. I’m thinking that it can be much more stable if the legs are bolted to a metal triangular plate and a weight like a propane tank is placed on the plate. Have you tried that?
Outdoorstirfry:
You have very good thought. Making a plate holding the tank is a very good idea. We did not try it out but we are sure it should help to stabilize when tossing. Making a plate like what you describe requires welding. A simpler way is to tie 3 strings from the long leg adapters (next to the stove base plate) to the tank to lift the tank up a bit, or hang some heavy weight like bricks from the strings. We don’t offer these as shipping charge of these does not make sense.
