You can also TOSS the veggies or meat with the carbon steel wok as it cooks with the high heat in the bottom half - something that you can't do with the cast-iron wok, simply because it is much to heavy to perform that culinary manuever.
Also, please temporarily disconnect the battery in your smoke alarm while you are heating up the pan for stir-frying, because it won't stop beeping when the pan is hot and you are about to add the oil to it!!
I returned to my friend's apartment last week and had cooked some bacon and eggs for him because he was too drunk to do it himself. I begged him to just "sleep it off" until I returned. He did what I asked him to do. But when I
heated the pan to cook the eggs, and added the butter, the pan began to smoke and it set off the very sensitive alarm and the strobe light started flashing!!
Drunk as he was, my quick-thinking friend Daquan started "fanning" the alarm with a newspaper to stop it from beeping and flashing, while I turned on the electric fan, and it worked!!!
So please, make sure that you don't set off your smoke alarm while stir-frying. Disarm it temporarily if you can until you are done stir-frying. Thank you.
~Corey123.