The Boomerang Wok by Nikolai Carels allows you to flip omelets back onto themselves or cook without flinging food out of your pan. The pan has a strategically-designed inner lip that curves inward to keep food from flying over the edge.
From the website:
Stir-frying enables you put a delicious, varied and healthy meal on the table in no time at all. Unfortunately, when stir-frying some of the ingredients do tend to end up next to the pan. However, with the Boomerang Wok this is a thing of the past! Thanks to the unique patented cupped edge of the Boomerang Wok, the ingredients can be turned with a simple movement of the spatula. The ingredients always end up back in the pan.
The Boomerang Wok not only makes stir-frying a bit easier, but larger pieces of food, such as a fillet of fish or meat can be turned in no time at all using the unique patented cupped edge.
The Boomerang Wok means it is no longer necessary to lift up the pan; the skills of a Chinese chef are incorporated in this pan.
Stir-frying has never been as much fun and as easy, and the cooker stays clean!
saridout on 09.02.2010 at 11:59 AM
this is a fantastic idea, and i want one. but i can’t pay over $100 for a frying pan, just for the design. it may be flimsy or have a finish that isn’t durable.
whateber on 09.02.2010 at 12:29 PM
It is completely retarded that something as trivial as that can get patented.
alexish on 09.02.2010 at 14:50 PM
If you feel you need this, you don’t cook enough to warrant buying it.
Seriously, flipping food in a pan is akin to boiling water.
If the condition of your perfectly flipped over omelet is a big deal to you, you are probably going to figure it out with out a special pan.
ryo on 09.02.2010 at 16:21 PM
I do have to agree with saridout it is a great idea. The price will steer me away from this.
Sam on 09.02.2010 at 16:51 PM
But it’s not a wok, it’s a fancy frying pan!
jimbob on 09.03.2010 at 01:43 AM
For a start its non stick………wtf
Secondly if you can’t flip your food without this, you shouldn’t be allowed in the kitchen.
matt on 09.06.2010 at 00:32 AM
If you have the money for this, and don’t want to waste a dozen quail eggs practicing, this is the way to go. People will buy anything. I can’t quit laughing.
office business centre on 11.22.2010 at 06:43 AM
My question is, WHY didn’t anyone come up with this any sooner? It is so simple and functional! O_O
Silvia on 07.12.2011 at 16:05 PM
It is obvious the “inventor” does not cook, only eats. The shape of the pan will allow for steam to stay on top of your food giving it the consistency of steammed rather than fried. I am no inventor but I have been cooking for over 40 years.