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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 24s

other kinds other than cast iron i mean not other brands of said

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 42s

i don't actually know how to use other kinds of pan lol. like i'm sure it's possible but it's totally alien to me

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 24m

no she just grew too much horseradish

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 27m

me too that's also my build. i am designed for hauling muck or peat

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 28m

oh staub is lovely, an old roommate of mine had Staub and she couldn't cook her way out of a wet paper bag. once she made horseradish soup

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 29m

i grew up with electric coils and now have a commercial gas Viking we got on craigslist and it is slowly poisoning us all and i just cannot cook any other way. when we can't get natural gas anymore i'll have to switch to open fires outside, i can't do electric coils ever again

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 31m

i also have a way huge steel stockpot i use for things like, well, making stock. i thought about replacing that today too but i'm not actually convinced le creuset makes better steel than anybody else

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 34m

i think i'm just accidentally strong due to some fluke of genetics combined with working in kitchens for a decade then retiring to birth two enormous sons

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 35m

lol remember when i went to that sale where a waldorf school was closing down and they had a $5 vitamix and i had to warn them but not until *after* i had purchased the $5 cuisinart

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 39m

oh god my poor mom got stuck with a glass top stove when her landlord picked it out and now she can't use her pre-war Wagner. it's all just sitting there and she cooks in Ikea. it's so tragic

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 41m

good lord you could cook a horse in that thing

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 42m

i've never used an oval, it's my understanding that those are good for elongated things like a whole fish, or baking longer loaves, but since the heat will necessarily be unevenly distributed on a round burner, i've never wanted one for stovetop

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 43m

a 9 quart dutch oven, a 3.5 quart round wide oven, and both sizes of saucepot, 2.25 and 1.75. i *had* been kind of struggling along with the 5, same as yours, but it doesn't quite fit a whole yardbird, which is annoying

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 45m

oh shit the 13? i've never even seen one in person, what a beast

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 50m

i've had a 5.5 but sized up to the 9 but i am six feet tall and very strong. i think that size might be unrealistic for smaller people

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 50m

if you have a le creuset dutch oven what size do you have and how large is your family and do you do big dinner parties or preservation or anything? and are you physically large and strong? just curious what everyone else went with

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 52m

yeah damn i can't argue with that

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 1h

yeah it's good for like soup but it sucks for roasting because a yardbird ALMOST fits but you have to break every bone. i think the 9 seems like a good compromise, the 13 is just too extreme

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 1h

i got the 9 quart? i actually didn't know what size mine was before today, i measured it and it was the 5 point whatever. 5.5 i think. but it was BARELY big enough, i want to be able to fit a yardbird in there

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 1h

the message is: i think you are wonderful

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 1h

is anybody who knows ruth goodman and could relay her a message on here

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 1h

my butter dish is fiesta ware, i like fiesta ware (specifically Shamrock) for serving stuff and china, pampered chef heritage stoneware for baking, and le creuset for anything on the stovetop

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 1h

code is BUILDASET 30% off 3+ full price items

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 1h

when i bought my knives i specifically got ones made locally that had a lifetime sharpening deal so i don't have to do it myself or mail them off somewhere, i can take them to the factory in person whenever and wait 15 minutes and they're done

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 1h

buy once cry once. i intend to never buy a pan again

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 1h

like i think even my great depression survivor grandma would agree with me on that one. she scrimped and saved like nobody's business but she also took food as seriously as it merits and she'd say, don't compromise on your tools

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 1h

objectively speaking, a person cooking three meals a day for four people, doing fairly labor-intensive scratch food and bulk preservation of garden surplus, all day every day, that person shouldn't be using ancient cracked pans with lead in the exterior enamel. the children could eat enamel shards

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 1h

i come from a very, like, "never throw anything away, never replace anything if it has a scrap of life left in it, you can fix that, never pay retail, you can find a use for that" family, so sometimes i struggle to identify when something is actually DEAD dead and has to go

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 1h

probably didn't help that two years ago i had two six month old babies at the house with me and no power or running water or heat or groceries for a week and a half. if it happened again now i would have two regular sturdy children who are easier to keep warm and fed

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 1h

sadly i didn't want to pay for faster shipping so now i have to wait 7-10 days and i'm going to be going batty the whole time. packij? paqage? pakadge?

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 2h

oh i know the exact one you mean with the handle, i love those

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 2h

that's what my old ones were and i actually painted my kitchen dark green specifically to offset them lol. i'm committed to the orange

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 2h

oh people who think it's an unnecessarily frivolity at any price

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 2h

damn is that still there? we're going to florida

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 2h

i use the pampered chef "heritage stoneware" collection for baking, for some reason? for casseroles. idk why, i just found some at goodwill and they have a nice heft to them and don't break easily

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 2h

significantly less than a grand for a full replacement of entire batterie de cuisine

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 2h

that's what i'm saying! and the signature round wide oven is $135 off too although obviously that can't be one of your full price three

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 2h

you know i gotta do the classic flame orange

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 2h

if it was good enough for julia it's good enough for me

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 2h

anyway if you use the code BUILDASET on three or more full price items you get 30% off which is competitive even with the outlet store and the outlet store has the ones with the shitty handles. i wanted the crucibles

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 2h

no they weren't under warranty they're 60 years old. they can't replace them because they haven't made that style in decades and i'm clearly not the original owner because i am 38 years old. no need to suggest that. they have a good warranty but not THAT good

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 2h

some of you may recall that the enamel in my beloved 1960s set is all cracking and falling apart. multiple pieces now unsafe to use for cooking. 60 years is pretty good but apparently that's a hard ceiling. so i just said fuck it and got new ones. that's my christmas present right there

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 2h

people who are going to make fun of me for class reasons don't read this. i just got such a sick discount on some le creuset

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 2h

i never used to be scared of the wind at all before that really horrible storm two years ago and now i'm genuinely like very scared of it lol. elevated heart rate the whole time, sleeping downstairs on the couch

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