works of wanderlust

Tag: cooking

  • Can I use a cast iron pot or pan to boil water?

    One of the adages of cast iron cooking is that to improve your cast iron cookware, just use it. What is not necessarily clear in that basic advice is that to make any cast iron seasoning better, stronger, and more resilient, the use of your cast iron should follow a couple basic principles about how

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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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  • Why I Cook on Cast Iron (Part One)

    Do you remember the first time you got the perfect sear? I do. We had come into a couple thousand dollars as a small inheritance. The decision had been made years prior that any windfalls like that would be rolled back into our house. It was simple: money from a family legacy transformed into value

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