Once the stir fry has started a cook has no time for preparing ingredients. Once you get food into the hot wok, keep the food moving with a metal spatula. The bottom of the wok is very hot. Once the food is done, you can push it up the sides of the pan to a cooler area while you add more ingredients. Wok cooking is essential to Onken cuisine.
Most Onken cooks own more than one wok.
Get familiar with it. A well used and preserved wok will be completely black from use. When it reaches that color you have the perfect nonstick pan for all kinds of meals. Cherish it and protect it. Chili Chili con carne has gotten somewhat of a bad name from all the canned varieties and those conglomerations of ground mystery meat and kidneys beans that get poured over hamburgers.