It’s Important to Preheat Your Cast Iron

There’s a common myth about cast iron cookware. It’s so pernicious, I’ve endorsed and spread it myself: “cast iron cookware heats evenly.”

That’s simply not true. Not just simply—demonstrably. So much so, that I have observed the falsehood of this claim in my personal experience, and yet disregarded it.

It took America’s Test Kitchen to change my view, and now, I preach their gospel!

Cook It in Cast Iron

Cook It In Cast Iron, (paid link) from America’s Test Kitchen’s Cook’s Country series (Image: Overdrive Media).

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Monthly Movie for November

I can hardly believe that this year-long project is already drawing toward completion. I decided to shoot a short film from the same spot on the beach each month of 2019, and here, already, is November’s film! Just one more to go after this, to complete the set.

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