Maybe there is something about me that old people like to talk to. I have heard stories from my wife’s grandparents that she has never heard. That being said, this story is not one of them. But, it is quite a bit out there as in unbelievable. Believe it or not, but this is the story of my wife’s paternal grandfather who had all the kids and was also the first birthday in what I call ‘Birthday Week’.
Author: bhayes952
August 1, 2025 – Boundaries, Chapters 11-12
One of the nice things about this book is that it seems to flow with how I want to do things. That would be two chapters at a time and the subjects seem to work topically together. This week it is boundary problems with work and the digital world. For many of us working at home or in the technology sector, the digital world is a must. The truth is the digital world is here to stay whether it is required for work or not.
Let me tell you that I have had some boundary problems with work. One thing that taking a two years off really helped me was with perspective. I have a much stronger propensity to have better boundaries now then I ever did before I just let everything go. It doesn’t mean that I still don’t struggle at times but creating that separation made things so much clearer.
I find it a lot easier to take a stand in a large company then when I was with a small one. Their, you are almost family and those bonds quickly become strong. But, the weak bonds and relationships in a large company are much easier to defend. It makes it especially true when I am working from home. I just put things on my calendar and walk away when it is time.
I think where work boundary problems are evident is that this is an environment of sanctified hierarchy. Once we are deemed adults, we are all treated as equals (in theory). So friendships, romantic relationships and even familial interactions we have the ability to declare the we are independent adults and with it comes the ability to lead our own lives and consequences thereof. Not so at work.
I wouldn’t call my dad a workaholic by any means but there were a lot of times where he travelled for months at a time sometimes returning home every other week and sometimes once a month. That was my model and work was supported and encouraged. Add to my travelling being on-call and work never ended. I worked and worked in various jobs.
As funny as it sounds, I have a much less likely to have boundary problems with the digital world. Part of that is because I do not participate in much social media. The other part is that I want to be done with technology by the time I am done with work.
It was about 15 years ago, a co-worker was leaving. I talked to him about his decision and from that conversation he asked a favor. Create a LinkedIn account and join a particular group that was common to the work that we did. I did and didn’t think too much about it as it has not been super busy over the years.
I have the application on my phone. Particularly when I was looking to get back into the workforce, I had notifications turned on. My logic was that I had to be ready at the drop of a dime for a recruiter to contact me and offer me a job. But, I started noticing a couple of things as well. One of those things was that I was starting to get in the habit of clearing my notifications every time I saw them.
The second thing that I was noticing was that I kept getting notified of the same stories. This was not a notification from a different source or a variation but that it was the same story I read a week ago. It was happening over and over again, Every time I unlocked my phone I had new notifications. Of which, nothing was ever significant.
I decided to turn off notifications and I have not looked back. Important things like messages from recruiters also send emails. Every time I log in, there are 20+ notifications because I only check every couple of weeks. But they are almost always ‘so and so likes this’ and things of that ilk. These days, I recognize LinkedIn as a necessary evil. My last two jobs were the result of having an active profile and I have had multiple interviews as well. But, I do keep it at bay.
End Your Programming Routine: There is a ton to be written about these two subjects. I really cannot do justice with digital boundaries in one quick write-up. Even if you are not reading the book, observe your digital habits as a third person. I see all the time most people are on their phones the entire waiting period at the doctor’s office. We have forgotten how to be still because most people are addicted to technology. Just wait until AI is fully integrated.
July 31, 2025 – Rip It Up
One of the things that I take for granted living in Oregon is the coastal, sand dunes. As I understand it, it is not the only sand dunes in the United States. Apparently, there are dunes in Utah, Colorado, Michigan, Indiana, California and North Carolina at least. When I was doing a quick check on where the others were located, I was also checking to see if off-roading was allowed; that is not universal.
In Oregon at least, the dunes are off-roading heaven. They also go on for miles and miles down the central and south central coast line. All my life I have known people that aspire to spend their weekends jumping humps and drag racing up extremely steep hills. This is what my son wanted to do for his 19th birthday.
If you watch the video, you can see that he got a four wheeler. I ended up renting a Honda Talon side by side for various reasons. One of which is that my arm is still bothering me some and I thought it would be a little smoother (which I believe that it was). I felt no pain or soreness after riding around for three hours. I know that my son wanted to rent something bigger and faster but you had to be over 25 to rent and drive this vehicle.
We had a lot of fun for the majority of the time. Unfortunately, there was a small accident that cut our time short. It was no big deal but it did break the flag pole off and we were instructed to call the shop if a roll occurred. They wanted us to nurse the thing back which is why we went so slow in the video.
Right before we left, I packed my Baofeng GMRS radios. I have never used them before and I thought this might be a good place to test them. It turns out it was the perfect place to test the radios. When the accident occurred, we of course did not have any reception. So, I went down the hill to get cell signal. Once I got the instructions from the shop, I radioed to my son. We would have never been able to do that without the radios.
I would estimate that we got about 3 miles maximum of reception. It seemed 1.5 miles was reliable but beyond that things got spotty. I heard him at 3 miles but he did not hear my response. When we got back home, I realized that I actually have a longer set of antennas also in the box. It would be interesting to switch and see what the difference is. I also had a set of Midland walkie talkies that are lower power, but we didn’t really have enough time to mess with those as well.
We call it Sand Duning. It is one of those things that it seems like many out of state visitors are drawn to. Many people that I have met seem to bee-line to the sand dunes and rent a ATV. This is why I started out today saying that I just don’t think about it much. I guess it is been there, done that.
That being said, it is one of those activities that seems approachable. If you watch the video carefully, you can see the RVs on the left hand side at points. People trailer their vehicles and camp out on the sand. Then, they can just leave from their camp sites and go play. Four new quads is certainly cheaper than one new boat. I could see really getting into it. But then again, I don’t need anything else to take my time and money.
End Your Programming Routine: I think that it has been ten years or so since the last time we went Sand Duning. That was also for my son’s birthday. My wife was jealous, she wanted to go as well but she was out with her girlfriends for her birthday. I guess that is the way the cookies crumble. But, I wouldn’t be surprised if we have another trip in out near future.
July 30, 2025 – Getting In the Mood
Believe it or not, I had a free Saturday not too long ago. I was free of any obligations because everybody was working or doing things that they deemed more important. I didn’t have to wait around for somebody to pick-up something or deliver something or babysit or host a party and I have literally been waiting weeks to try out my recrafted Danner boots as well as jump start my return to hiking.
I put on my boots and only packed a day pack. I put up water and a couple of snacks because the focus was the boots and it was only going to be a five mile loop. Using the All Trails app I found a pretty close trail that I never knew about and set off.
I am happy to report that my toe no longer rubbed on the plastic toe cap. This would become raw in a day or so and my enthusiasm to put on the boots rapidly diminished each day to the point where I would rather take other shoes even if that meant wet or cold feet. One other side benefit I noticed immediately that I didn’t realize was a problem was the constant squeaking with each step.
Apparently, the heel supports had detached from the sidewalls, that is what the cobbler said. With each step it would rub on the leather and cause a very slight squeaking. It was definitely annoying and not the kind of thing you really want while out trying to sneak up on game. There were two, new kind of minor issues I noticed.
The most pressing was that the tongue was biting into my ankle. I tried to adjust it a couple of times but I cannot see anything unusual. I don’t know if it was the socks I was wearing or I just laced them up in a weird way. More to report some other time but I never had that problem before. The second was that the boots left a black ring around my socks. I think this must have come from the re-dying of the leather. I assume that will resolve itself.
I took a number of photos when I was out. Most of them were from animals that I ran across as I was out and about. The one that I chose spoke to me because if you change the sky and the temperature, it could easily have been deer hunting season. I saw four different deer after all.
Now that I have finished my kick, my mind is drifting to the fall. I realize that we are a week or so away from the technical, mid-summer point. Traditionally our whether starts to turn in a couple of weeks. The sun looks different, it is more muted and by the end of August it is setting by eight o’clock. The overall humidity often goes down and so it feels cooler that it actually is. This becomes harvest season.
Coincidentally, harvest season is also hunting season. The official start of Dove season is September 1. If I was an archery hunter, my big game season would also begin. But a short and pleasant month leads to the real, big game seasons. As I have stated previously, we won our tag draw this year and so I am planning on doing Mule deer hunting rather that Blacktail deer hunting this year. Maybe this is the year I finally go for coastal elk, I have seen plenty of them this year. It all depends on how things go with medical appointments and things as we move past summer.
I am adding some new gear this year (surprise, surprise). I have heard over and over on Meateater how the binocular harness is the number one piece of gear that they use. I will write more about that later. But I just got my base part and so I am anxious to get that tested out before the season. It seems like a good idea to put on my boots again and get out there just to feel things out a bit. The season is barreling towards us faster than I can imagine.
End Your Programming Routine: We are getting to my favorite time of year for many reasons but chief among them is anticipation of hunting season. I can say that the money was worth Danner boot recrafting if for anything than removing the squeak, I am sure that I will work out the ankle pressure thing next time I put the boots on. Yeah, I could have paid less and gotten new boots that would possibly work better than these. But, this is why I believe in buy once, cry once.
July 29, 2025 – Let’s Try These Reusable Cubes
I went into a chain farm store the other day on a whim. It has probably been six months since I had last been there. I stopped buying dog food there a couple of years ago because it was $10 a bag more than another local store. I would buy it there if that was the only local option but the price savings is nothing to sneeze at.
When I went in, I had it in my head that I was going to peruse the news stand. They carry lots of titles that I enjoy namely Backwoods Home and Self-Reliance but really lots of things like that. This is when I ran across these reusable seed trays by Burpee. Clearly, I don’t know how they are going to work, but the idea sounds good at least.
In recent years, I have been using peat cells that fit perfectly into proprietary trays. They are pretty small so each tray holds 72 cells. That is a lot of starts for me. They do work but based on my propensity for negligence, I feel like optimally they should be transplanted into larger containers before planting.
These reusable cells are significantly larger which translates into a much larger plant and more likely to take off when planted. I think the theory is that the root wad will hold the cube soil together which allows these trays to be re-useable.
There are several features about these trays that I like. The first one is that they are re-useable. One of the problems with the peat cubes I find is that they are a seasonal item. Once the season is over, they are gone from the stores. The last time I bought a bunch of them, they had to be found and taken down from the high stock shelves on a fork-lift. This big box was the only place I could find them in retail and not exactly ideal when you are looking to start out of cycle. I know, Amazon is a thing and it is largely season agnostic. But again, I would like to do this with less inputs. I don’t like really relying upon consumables for success.
The second thing I really like is that the cells are gridded. This means that you can easily and accurately keep track of what seeds are in what cell by the label. I have tried all kinds of things, none of which I love. If each cell is not identified then you are confined to a row of one variety or devising some other method. For instance, this year I made a ton of straw markers for a bunch of seeds that never germinated.
The third thing that I like is that the water is in a tray below the cells. This eliminates the flash flood type watering when using a can. I have often had seeds end up in other cells because the watering process was too aggressive. Then, I am guessing about what is actually growing and I question myself about thinning.
There is one thing that I am going to have to see. There is no humidity dome to cover the trays. I think that they pose two advantages in this situation. One is they keep the water from evaporating, especially when the trays are on a heat mat. The other is that I believe they help keep the temperature inside the tray. This is the we’ll have to see part.
As soon as I get results from my seed germination testing, I am going to start planting. I already have a pretty good idea but I don’t want to spoil the results here. I wish that I had started the seed testing weeks ago because I don’t know if I am going to have enough time to get a root ball to solidify the cube. I will have to roll with what I have.
End Your Programming Routine: I’ll be the first to say that technology does not make the expert. It doesn’t make you the best golfer or chef. Once you have the fundamental skills, technology makes things faster, easier, better. I am still working on those gardening skills but I am hoping that these new cubes will make bigger, better plants when they actually get into the ground.
July 28, 2025 – The Kick
If you have ever been a long distance runner, then you know the term. I explain what it means and how it is all related to the subject today. This won’t be a sports show but an analogy to how and why it is important to know your pace and pace yourself so that you can achieve the best possible finish.
July 25, 2025 – Boundaries, Chapter 9-10
These are two chapters that I have been interested in reading, boundary issues with the spouse and children. I feel like the two are kind of joined at the hip considering that one might have issues with one that bleeds into the other. I am pretty convinced that people don’t just have boundary problems in one area, at least I don’t.
The concept of systems thinking comes to mind. By now, I hope that it is obvious that most problems have a systematic approach to resolution. I am not seeing much of a difference between a boundary issue with friend versus a spousal relationship. Sure, there is more intimacy between partners and hopefully more grace as well but the reality is that they have similar roots and resolutions.
In fact, this chapter reapplies several laws found in chapter five to use as examples. The book also adds a nine point list to help with resolution. I don’t see it specific to spousal boundaries but to all mature boundary problems.
- Inventory the symptoms
- Identify the specific boundary problems
- Find the origins of the problem
- Take in the good
- Practice
- Say no to the bad
- Forgive
- Become proactive
- Learn to love freedom and responsibility
Moving to chapter ten, let’s hope that you don’t have too many boundary problems with children. Otherwise we need to call the police and protective services. Rightly so, a large focus of this chapter is all about installing age appropriate boundaries as well as teaching them so children grow up as healthy, appropriate adults.
When I was a young child (pre school) I remember that my bedtime was seven o’clock. As I moved into grade school, my bedtime became 8PM until summertime and then it was nine. Throughout grade school it bounced back and forth in this manner, it seemed normal. So that by the time I was in middle school, this was routine and there were no questions asked.
We had a bit of a kerfuffle in middle school as my peers and friends found Saturday Night Live. My mom said that we were expected to be ready and attentive for church the next day. The pastor’s husband was also a fan of Saturday Night Live and he could not make it to church routinely and slept late on Sunday’s. After that point, I never questioned that my bedtime was nine o’clock no matter what season or day it was.
It was late May in my senior year and my parents were confronting me with something else. I was already 18, but what I said in the conversation is that I had no meaningful connection with my peers. They were exercising their adulthood and transitioning out of the house and yet I felt nothing relatable with them. My parents responded with ‘there was no reason why I couldn’t do the things that they were doing’.
Somewhere in the age of middle school to high school, I missed the boat of age appropriate freedom and boundaries. Ultimately, it was my fault for not trying to exert or push for expanded boundaries but I never realized it was something that I should be doing or that would have long term effects. To date, I have a hard time relating to pop culture trends and platonic relationships.
This is a polite way of saying that I have to own my own problems. I have the power to do anything that I want if I desire to change this. That being said, it is the parents responsibility to guard their children against retarded development. I think that my parents fell into the convenience trap of saying ‘well he is not asking for anything, so it should be fine’ rather than saying some of these choices are more age appropriate.
My wife and I are completely opposite. As much as I had severely restricted boundaries, she had almost no boundaries. Therefore, we have struggled over the years to set appropriate boundaries with our kids. It is almost the opposite where she would want more and I would want less for them. And then we went full circle to boundary problems within our relationship. It is always way more complicated than this but it is an example.
End Your Programming Routine: There is a lot of discussion in chapter nine about feelings. Not what you do causes this or that result but I feel scared, lonely, abandoned, whatever. I have never been much into feelings but I now understand that these are signals for boundary problems. Be warned that it is just as likely a boundary problem that other’s own to cause negative feelings. But, that is delicate and this is the place that you really need double down on collaborative resolution.
July 24, 2025 – The Seed Test
I have spent some time soul searching and have come up with some answers. A large part of why I failed at getting motivated to plant a garden this year was because I had so few seeds germinate. I had new tomato seeds, new tobacco seeds and and kale that actually sprouted. Everything else was just dormant or dead.
The urgency to get a bed prepared was tempered by the fact that I would have to buy pepper starts and it was too early (at the time). Things remained at a stand still because this weekend was too busy, I’ll think about next weekend until that came and went. Pretty soon it was really too late to get started.
I was looking at my seeds and I was on a kick to pickup free seed packets at the library at one point. Many of the seeds I have, came from that mechanism. Most of them are at least seven years old and the truth is that I have been struggling with successful germination since I have started using library seeds.
I find it hard to believe that they have mistreated their seeds any more than I have the ones I purchased. Before library seeds and my germination station, I used to keep them in my garden shed where it would get to freezing in the winter and 120 degrees in the summer. I never really worried about germination because it was never a problem. Keeping them at room temperature for a year seems like a no brainer compared to what I was doing.
Now I keep them in the basement in my seed starting area. It is always dark and cool varying from 35 – 60 degrees. This should be even better than room temperature at the library. What I really need to find out is if this is a seed viability problem or some other factor. I am going to describe a seed test that I have used in the past in just a second.
But first, is there any other problems to consider? I think possibly yes. One of the things that I have noticed is that I am trying to start a batch of different things with different germination times. I use a humidity dome and heat mat that is supposed to jump start or optimize the process. I usually remove the dome when the first plants start to touch the top. It may be that those longer germinating seeds just don’t have optimum conditions to germinate when competing in the same conditions. Ideally, I would have more granular control over the humidity than all or nothing.
It is quite possible that I am trying to use a one size fits all approach inappropriately. Meaning, I started one tray of different things and they all got the same amount of water, light, humidity and temperature. I do know for a fact that different seeds optimally need different conditions.
What seems more likely to me to be the problem is that the library seeds are just bad. I don’t know their origin, they could have been reject lots that were donated. Given that my new, purchased seeds seem to be viable and my seed collection has morphed primarily to library seeds, this hypothesis is supported by the data.
Like any good scientist, I designed an experiment to test this hypothesis. The apparatus consists of a wet paper towel placed inside of a plastic bag. The seeds were marked as to what they are and I dated the last expected germination date. That bag is placed in a dark and warm spot and left alone. The last time I did this, I put the bags above the refrigerator. This time, I have them on the subwoofer in my office (behind the couch). If they germinate, they are viable and if they do not I am throwing them out.
A proper experiment would use new and old seeds. I did buy some new seeds and I didn’t think that I was going to write about experimental design when I put this together. But, here we are. My plan is to start new seeds if these do not germinate by the date I have on the test card.
End Your Programming Routine: I am not badmouthing library seeds. In fact, I hope that this works and I have some other problem. The library is a great resource and I love the idea of picking up new things that I wouldn’t buy otherwise. Unfortunately, I just have not had good results to date and this seems like the most obvious source given my several years of anecdotal data. Maybe the truth is somewhere between my hypothesis and the other variables. But, it is not how I realistically do things so it would be good to find out what is going on with the seeds from the library.
July 23, 2025 – Old Habits, Dying Hard
She knows that she is not supposed to be on the bed without invitation. But when Mom is not around to monitor, the rules get a little looser. In fact, she has a habit of jumping on the bed as soon as I come around. As if I am going to just stand by and let her take my space on the bed. Usually, I am just passing by and I have to shoe her back down to the floor.
The real reason that I took the picture was actually the book. But, since the dog was on the bed, she got in the shot as well. I had an extended weekend of babysitting a couple of weeks ago. One of the things that we did was read books on Thursday night before bed. Friday was a work day for me as well as camp for her. We definitely needed a normalcy strategy.
The first book we read was Where the Wild Dads Go. It is a take off or recent release of the book Where the Wild Things Go. That was the book I read when I was young. It was very short and so on to the second book, If I Ran the Zoo by Dr. Seuss. This was one from our library of books that comes from the era of reading to my own kids every night.
Reading time was something that I looked forward to every night. We started very young at even infant age. Some nights, I would read the book that I was reading. I figured that they really didn’t know what was going on and so reading was part of the routine. But, as the kids aged into comprehension, the focus shifted into age appropriate books and If I Ran the Zoo was on rotation of forty or so books.
As my kids got out of lap size, we migrated to more mature books like the Harry Potter series. But, they learned how to read themselves and we found that they would read ahead and even finish the book before we could read it as a family. And so, reading before bed shortly came to an end.
We even tried to incentivize reading as a family by trying to wait to rent the movie before we had completed the book. But, this was the time that I was travelling heavily and eventually those standards quickly got bent. My wife was also running the dance studio and bedtime as well as family time became significantly less routinely structured and idealistic.
Its funny, I haven’t read this book in the neighborhood of eight to ten years. Despite that, the words roll of my tongue like it was yesterday. I know that Dr Seuss can be a sing-songy. But, he also uses made up words that trip you up if you are not ready to pronounce them correctly. I anticipated those things because I was so familiar and we breezed through the book as if was a normal reading night.
I know that Dr. Seuss was taken down by the woke police. I understand that the way people talked and acted in days gone by are not exactly acceptable in today’s paradigms. This book is actually one of the titles specifically identified as controversial. But, I actually believe that Dr. Suess didn’t necessarily mean harm any more than good.
History is just that. You can easily search the term ‘historically racist presidents’ and find the argument that Thomas Jefferson was one. Yes, it is a complicated subject. He was a slave owner and yet coined the phrase ‘all men are created equal’. I really don’t want to expand the discussion into a whole new dimension and so I will leave all the specifics here. My point here was that I think that is clear that Jefferson contributed significantly more good than bad.
It is pretty hypocritical to celebrate the first amendment and condemn the dangers of book banning and such only to turn around and censor work that has been in the public orbit for up to ninety years. I think that what is lost here is that our culture has forgotten its historical origins For instance, the legal system requires intent for a crime to be present. We have changed the burden of proof from intent of harm to ‘I feel bad as a result’ and that is good enough.
Of course, our legal system has different aspects. For instance on the civil front, then there is a lessor standard of guilt. However, a civil case must have damages to valid and have a case. What are the damages from offensive words or pictures, especially when there is a right to say whatever you want? You see this is the problem, we have succeeded philosophical, moral authority on all issues.
End Your Programming Routine: This is not an endorsement to be racist or even offensive. I am advocating for things to be the what they are, like children’s stories from a past era. Maybe we should choose to throw away books where we encounter such feeling rather than mounting campaigns based on our own insecurities. At least, that is what I would do if I ran the zoo.
July 22, 2025 – Tis the Season
Maybe you cannot tell (or do not know) from the picture that this is a Jenn-Air range. One thing that they had unique was that the burners were arranged in cassettes. Meaning that you could pop out the unit on one side and replace it with something else. They used to offer a griddle option so that one side could make pancakes or whatever while the other side was boiling soup.
We didn’t install this range, it was done in the late 1990s. So, it was six or seven years old when we purchased the house. We never had the griddle attachment, but there was a grill. I never used it because I just couldn’t imagine grease dripping down inside my range. But, there was a significantly older Jenn-Air in the little house. It actually had the griddle. It also had an attachment to screw in a mason jar to catch the grease. Great idea although it significantly cut down on oven size.
I replaced that tired, 1970s range in one of my first remodels and I took the griddle off thinking that I would use it in my house on occasion. But, I never did. My wife purchased a 14″, round pan that looked very much like a paella pan. That was our pancake griddle, tortilla Comal, grilled cheese maker etc. That pan was used to death.
As much as we used it, there was a lot to be desired. For instance, I was limited to warming one flour tortilla. I could get three corn tortillas with overlapping edges and pancakes had to be poured very carefully to get three. It also hung off of the edge of the range profile. So whenever we were using it we had to move all the stuff of the counter to give space for the pan.
One final issue, Jenn-Air is not the company it used to be. It is no longer it’s own company and is owned by Whirlpool. Like all gadgets, appliances, etc. it has a shelf life. Parts are no longer available at least new. Heck, even keeping it running is now cobbling parts together. So, it’s days are numbered. A griddle is not really an option at this point.
I know that my wife has been looking for a replacement. One day, this Made In package showed up. I thought, that is fancy. I have seen them sponsor shows like Top Chef. It looks like cast iron but I read through the literature and it says that it is carbon steel. Hmmm, what is the difference?
In order to be considered carbon steel, it must contain more than 2% carbon in the iron. So, that means that cast iron is iron plus less than 2% carbon. There you go. If comparing two pieces and one has 1.9% and one contains 2.1% carbon, the first one is cast iron and the second is carbon steel. As you can see, there is not much difference.
The internet would have you believe that carbon steel is a wonder material. At the very least that validates the marketing and justifies the significant cost difference. My experience so far has been there is not much significantly different between the two. I have used cast iron for most of my life. I like the no fuss nature i.e. no cleaning just wipe clean.
As far as I know, you treat carbon steel exactly like cast iron. Season before use, don’t use soap, continue to keep oiled, etc. I made blueberry pancakes for dinner the other night. This was a trial run for the product. I can say that the results were as expected. This means that it works, I enjoyed having plenty of space but time needs to be spent optimizing the controls and overall seasoning.
On my range, there is an 8″ burner in the back and a 6″ burner in the front. This means that it heats slightly unevenly. I know, this is not what the literature says but the reality is there is more power to different areas of the griddle. That is just a fact. Even though I had the dials on different settings to try and accommodate, I still found that the back was too hot. I don’t know if it was the temp or the seasoning, but I still had some sticking mostly in the back,
I am not ready to throw the baby out with the bathwater. This is a nice piece of cookware that I hope will get a ton of use. I just need more than one session to make a good judgement on the overall capability. The non-burnt pancakes were pretty good and even the burnt ones were alright.
End Your Programming Routine: This is a huge upgrade over the pan it is replacing. Not only is the surface area larger and more useable but it is also not covered with a non-stick coating that is going to fail in a few years. I can’t stand that stuff. Even though I haven’t mastered the pan, which I will assume will get better with time it is definitely going to have a place in my kitchen.
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