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Can a 35K BTU home wok burner improve food taste, and mimic restaurant wok hei?

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Many Cantonese restaurant chefs advise me to install a wok burner, even in my home, to procure wok hei 鑊氣. But "commercial wok burners blazes at over 100,000 BTU/hr!" "[A] wok burner can deliver up to [...] 200,000 BTU/h of thermal power."

But are these chefs wrong? Because HOME wok burners discharge merely ≤ 35K BTU, too little to be a "professional wok burner (which would likely require expensive ventilation upgrades for use indoors)"!

What can a ≤ 35K BTU wok burner accomplish, that a gas burner or electric induction cooktop can't ? What's exclusive to a ≤ 35K BTU wok burner ?

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x-post https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/124167/can-a-35k-btu-home-wok-burner-improve-food-... (1 comment)
x-post https://www.reddit.com/r/asianeats/comments/13f6ls4/can_a_35k_btu_home_wok_burner_improve_food... (1 comment)
35k BTU in perspective (1 comment)
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