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I picked up some more flaxseed, but, in the interrim, have spent more time on researching cast-iron restoration and seasoning methods than on baking bread. The history of US-made CI is quite interesting, and there is a huge collector's market for the old stuff from Griswold, Wagner, and, to a lesser...

The stuff I had was from Walmart also, but in the grocery aisles-- Hodgson Mills, IIRC. Are you making a distinction between "ground" and "milled"?

My 30+ year-old 12" CI skillet laughs in the face of dishwashing liquid. I am, however, keeping an eye out for a 4 or 5 qt. ECI pot on sale. I thought I had some milled flaxseed around here, but it's apparently been used up or it went buggy. The new KA catalog has a no-knead recipe similar to y...

RLB seems like a nice lady, but I find her recipes & instructions overly fiddly & complex. I'm beginning to see what you mean. "Bake covered at 450 for 30 minutes, then lid off for 15 minutes, then out on the baking stone for 10 minutes, then 5 minutes with the oven off, then 5 more mi...

Looks like she's using plain CI here: http://www.realbakingwithrose.com/2006/12/noknead_balloon_bread_loaf_10.html There's another, earlier post on there in which she uses a combo of parchment or some teflon paper on top of a coffee filter: http://www.realbakingwithrose.com/2009/09/another_word_on_n...

RLB talks about experimenting with parchment paper and coffee filters to deal with sticking in her blog entry.

I probably have nearly 50 mp3 covers of Jimi Hendrix's "Red House". This one might top them all: XXYjEMTQRm0 Gary Moore, of Thin Lizzy fame, at "The Strat Pack" 50th anniversary of the Fender Stratocaster concert 2004. Favorite comment: "How bad would it suck to have to fol...

Luckily, with baking, most experiments only cost a few cents worth of flour. The dough I used was something I already had on hand, and not of the level of hydration called for by the NYT NK recipe. The dutch oven was also a brand new, pre-seasoned one, and I wanted to test it on something, anything....

Thanks. The name "Lahey" is indeed the main keyword for anyone searching information on this topic. I'll experiment with a non-preheated technique first, and the pre-heated later.

Got my Wii disc in the mail Friday, but watched "Outsourced (2006)" on my computer Thursday evening while checking things out. The Wii, over wi-fi, played streamed shows better than the hard-wired PC did. No pixelization in either case, but some occasional lag on the PC. And I see it was &...