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How long does it take to season a cast iron pan?
Probably one of the most well-known bits of cast iron lore is that the more that you use your pan the better it will get. This rule of thumb is referring to the seasoning, the thin, black layers of polymerized oil that have been converted to this state by heat and have adhered to the
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Embarrassing & Stupid
(serialized fiction) The video faded to credits and I pulled the lid of the computer closed with that familiar magnetic click. My arm hurt. I let the aluminum rectangle slide to my left side where it caught between a fold in the blanket and my hip. I leaned back into the pillow and I’m sure
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Sculpting Sand & Polar Vortexes
The cold is breaking. Where I live in Edmonton, Canada, a small city of about a million people in the middle of the Canadian prairies, it gets cold. Yet, even a stretch of brutal chill is mostly unusual. A polar vortex as they called it, where we’ve not had a day this month where the
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Spreadsheets & Footfalls
Sunday Runday, and I’ve been hiding in my basement from the brutal cold, focussing on cross-training which is never a replacement for actually getting out on the trails. Not in quality of workout nor in the enjoyment of the effort. I’ve also been reflecting on the last year of pandemic lockdown and realizing that I’ve