Oxo Good Grips Nylon Asian Turner

 (9 customer reviews)

I love OXO products for their quality and design, but an asian turner is something I will stick with in steel. I have both this nylon turner and the OXO steel stainless steel asian turner. This nylon one is made very well, but I find that the handle being made of nylon goves too much when you are really diggin in there and tossing everything around. To each's own but i do reccommend a stainless wok and a stainless metal turner.

It's a great shape and fits my non-stick 14-inch wok perfectly. Nice long handle with a comfortable grip and it's very stiff. I'm not sure what these other reviewers are trying to stir-fry that is so heavy that it bends the handle. Lead pellets, perhaps. But unfortunately I didn't read the fine print until afterward - it is only heat resistant to 250 degrees, which is ice cold for a wok. (Actually, it's cold for just about anything; I mean, you make pancakes at 350!) Woks are supposed to used be over the highest heat your stove can produce. Ideally, for true traditional wok cooking, you'd want something even hotter, like a charcoal grill or an outdoor turkey-fryer burner. In my case I'm settling for an electric stove on high for every-day cooking, which isn't great but will do. But even then, this turner will melt in no time flat. It melted a little of the edge on the first use, and then a lot on the second use. It's going in the trash. Guess I'll try silicone or bamboo...Read more

Good:

not as bendy as the prior review had me fearing. YMMV. Like my stainless oxo turner, a perfect shape for the wok. However, being plastic, it's better suited to cast iron woks.

Bad:

If you really dig around ar scrape the heated surface wit this item, the end melts and scrapes-off. I have a feeling that I'm going to use this until I establish the seasoning on a few new pieces of cast iron, then I'll switch back to the oxo stainless turner.