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Who tests
the recipes.

EasyWok is written by home cooks who cook the food they write about. Every recipe carries a name, a test count, and a date.

3 people in the test kitchen3× minimum test cooks per recipe48 h target reply time on corrections

The test kitchen

The names behind
the wok notes.

Three people keep the recipes honest and the feedback useful. Between them they cook in three countries, with three different sets of supermarket shelves.

Recipe editor

Mei Chen

Vancouver, Canada

12 years cooking Sichuan and Cantonese food at home; former line cook in a 40-seat Cantonese kitchen.

Focus
Writes and re-tests every recipe three times in a domestic kitchen before it ships.
Cooks
Twice-cooked pork, mapo tofu, steamed fish
Test kitchen reviewer

Daniel Okafor

Lagos, Nigeria

Home cook and food writer; has cooked through more than 300 Chinese recipes with locally available ingredients.

Focus
Checks that each step works with supermarket substitutions, not specialist imports.
Cooks
Kung Pao chicken, hand-pulled noodles, egg fried rice
Community lead

Priya Raman

Manchester, UK

Runs the Circle moderation queue and the weekly Wok Challenge rhythm; previously built volunteer review communities.

Focus
Keeps feedback specific and kind, and makes sure no homework goes unanswered.
Cooks
Dumplings with her daughter, chilli oil, scallion pancakes

How we test

Three cooks
before you see it.

Recipe testing is not a taste test. It is a check that the steps, timings, and quantities survive a normal kitchen on a normal Tuesday.

01

Cooked three times

Every recipe is cooked at least three times in a home kitchen: once to write it, once to break it, once to confirm the timings.

02

Supermarket ingredients

If a step needs an ingredient most international supermarkets do not stock, we either swap it or tell you exactly where it matters.

03

Reviewed by a second cook

A second member of the test kitchen cooks the recipe without talking to the author, then files what went wrong.

04

Re-checked after launch

Reader corrections are logged, tested, and folded back into the recipe. The “last tested” date is the honest one.

Editorial standards

What we will
and will not do.

  • No sponsored rankings. The monthly board is sorted by member check-ins and nothing else.
  • No invented authority. We say when a recipe is our home version rather than a restaurant standard.
  • Corrections are published, not quietly edited. Email us and we will test the claim.
  • Allergens are named plainly. Substitutions are tested, not guessed.

Corrections and questions

If a step does not work in your kitchen, tell us which recipe, which step, and what happened. We test the claim before we change the page.

kitchen@easywok.online

Last editorial review: 28 October 2026

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