John, thanks for the reply. I'll have to check the flame in my water heater to see what it looks like....for the first time!
Jeff, the wok ring is a long story; I'll try to shorten it. I went to buy a wok ring for my stove after it was installed during an out-of-town family emergency when I couldn't check it, and there was none...NONE! An enterprising salesman remembered that the previous model of my stove did have one and he knew that the cooking grates were exactly the same, so he ordered one for me. $40 later I found that with or without the wok ring, the outward direction of the flames heated the outside and upper sides of my carbon steel wok but not the center, because there is a heavy cap (similar to cast iron) over each burner that forces the flames out to the side and would not allow the flames to burn vertically under the center of my wok. I guess GE learned from the previous model that a wok just wasn't going to work on the sealed burners and discontinued the wok ring for my model.
I'd been successfully wokking for over 40 years with the same wok and I'm so exasperated that I can't think of what to do next. That's why I'm thinking about the Camp Stove, although I'm not looking forward to carrying trays of mise-en-place through the kitchen, through the dining room, around the table, and through sliding glass doors on the other side onto the deck...and back again...to accomplish it!
I've thought about induction burners and other indoor butane stoves but it looks as if they are not hot enough. I tried the wok on my Genesis grill and that didn't work either.