works of wanderlust

Category: tucking in

  • Can I use a self-cleaning oven to strip a cast iron pan?

    Can I use a self-cleaning oven to strip a cast iron pan?

    The short answer is yes. The more complex answer is … maybe. A self-cleaning oven is the closest most of us have to a blast furnace inside of our homes. And as many people will tell you while there are multiple ways to strip old seasoning from cast iron, the high heat of an oven’s

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  • Cast Iron Care Checklist

    Kinda surprising actually that I haven’t written on this topic yet, but here goes… If you’ve been thinking about investing in a cast iron cookware collection, your new pans and griddles need a small collection of tools to live their best life with you. As with many hobbies, there are expensive and cheap versions of

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  • Dozens of Dozens of Sourdough

    I woke up at 6 am this morning to bake bread. It had been proofing overnight in my cast iron loaf pan, dusted with flour and lightly covered with a bit of plastic wrap to keep it from drying out for the twelve hour counter-top rise. It was the one hundredth and fourty-fourth loaf I’d

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  • Griswold Egg Pan (Part One)

    Some more backstory… Just before the pandemic rolled in and I was nursing ideas about how to make effective use of my domain name I struck upon the plan of buying and “restoring” old cast iron pans. My plan was to scour through eBay, adventure through yard sales, and bumble among the aisles of second

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  • Recipe: Cast Iron Campfire Waffles

    Recipe: Cast Iron Campfire Waffles

    Even far from an electrical socket, when I wake up in the woods I still have a few morning rituals. I need my hot cup of coffee brewed in one of a variety of ways: steeped, perked, or filtered. I usually try to eat a piece of fruit to start my day off right. And

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