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		<title>Strip this Pan, Part Four</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2021 01:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In short, and to conclude this short series of posts, the effort to strip and re-season the twenty-inch reversible grill was a modest success. In the end, it was a combination of elbow grease and chemical oven cleaner that seemed to net me the best result of the multiple methods I tried. I found that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Strip this Pan, Part Three</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2021 17:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Time being limited and linear, it’s taken me over a month to get around to tackling the twenty-inch reversible grill reseasoning project. For reference, check out parts one and two wherein I presented my options to deal with the pitting that was destroying the five-year-old seasoned surface of my Saturday morning pancake flattop and tried [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Strip This Pan, Part Two</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2021 20:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I know that with a name like “the cast iron guy” you might expect that I’m some kind of guru in cast iron when in reality it as much about a philosophy of life that is expressed in the form and function of cast iron as much as a so-called cast iron expertise. I write [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Strip This Pan, Part One</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2021 20:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My big ol&#8217; twenty inch reversible grill has developed some pitting over the summer and I&#8217;ve been contemplating the pros and cons of various methods to strip a pan down to bare metal and start the seasoning process from scratch. 1. A self-cleaning oven on clean mode heats up the pan hot enough to incinerate [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Hot Pan of Endless Convenience</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2021 16:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is not the first time I&#8217;ve brought up my mushroom grilling wonder pan on this blog, and it is unlikely to be the last. A summer of backyard grilling and open-flame cooking has done nothing short of cementing my resolve celebrate a years-long (if accidental) effort to season a chunk of generic cast iron [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Should I avoid using soap on my cast iron pan?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2021 16:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[About a week before I am writing this post, the official Twitter for Lodge Cast Iron posted a simple question: &#8220;Soap or no soap?&#8221; About fifty people weighed in on the debate, asserting a broad range of opinions from both Team Soap and Team No Soap. For the uninitiated the argument goes something like this: [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Can I use an outdoor grill or campfire to season my cast iron pan?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2021 16:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Iron. Oil. Heat. These are the three foundational ingredients needed to season any cast iron pan. If you have a cast iron pan, a bit of oil, and a heat source then you should be able to season that pan. And so the simple answer is, yes, if your heat source is a campfire or [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Season</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2021 14:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[autumn colours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cast iron seasoning]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[spring thaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[summer sun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter weather]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Three months into writing daily missives here on this blog and it occurred to me that there is one particular word woven through my stories to which I have not given much thought. It is a word with multiple, distinct meanings, and that fact should have been obvious for a guy who writes about the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How do I know when I need to re-season a cast iron pan?</title>
		<link>https://wander.8r4d.com/2021/02/how-do-i-know-when-i-need-to-re-season-a-cast-iron-pan/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2021 16:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[cast iron]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[You get a new pan from the store, or an old, new-to-you pan from a family member, and the first thing you&#8217;re likely to do is spend some time re-seasoning. Fresh from the factory, or stale from neglect, obviously is a great time to put in the effort. But what about the pans you already [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How long does it take to season a cast iron pan?</title>
		<link>https://wander.8r4d.com/2021/02/how-long-does-it-take-to-season-a-cast-iron-pan/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2021 15:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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