{"id":93,"date":"2008-12-25T21:42:08","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T02:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/25\/roasted\/"},"modified":"2008-12-25T21:42:08","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T02:42:08","slug":"roasted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/25\/roasted\/","title":{"rendered":"Roasted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merry merry!&nbsp; Best wishes of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;It&#8217;s certainly been merry here.<\/p>\n<p>An important point about message fragmentation.&nbsp; Here are 2 very<br \/>\ndifferent messages, each starting with the same first chunk:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>We found the roasting pan we thought we&#8217;d given away.<\/li>\n<li>We found the roasting pan we thought we&#8217;d given away, but it&#8217;s<br \/>\nnot in fit condition to use for food preparation, you&#8217;d best bring<br \/>\nyours again.\n  <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Guess which version of the communication I had, right up to the point<br \/>\nwhen I was hotting up the oven and ready to pop in the turkey I&#8217;d<br \/>\nvolunteered to prepare&nbsp; <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">chez<br \/>\nles beaux parents <\/span>this year?&nbsp; \ud83d\ude42&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The roasting pan was lurking under the shelves in the basement<br \/>\nworkshop, a WWII-generation looking thing that had been gathering dust<br \/>\nfor more years than I&#8217;ve been cooking. And the worst-looking kind of<br \/>\ndust (and rust).&nbsp;&nbsp; There weren&#8217;t great alternatives, so I<br \/>\nconsented to see what DH could do to clean it up &#8212; convincing him to<br \/>\nuse cooking oil to scrub it with, not inedible WD40&#8230;&nbsp; And when<br \/>\nsuccessive wipes with a paper towel were still coming away with bits of<br \/>\nrust, I wiped it down with canola oil and threw it into the already hot<br \/>\noven to seal it.&nbsp;&nbsp; Apart from having to position a standing<br \/>\nfan by the oven to direct the inevitable smoke towards the windows<br \/>\n(away from the alarm-company wired-in smoke detector), that did the<br \/>\ntrick rather nicely.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px;\" alt=\"uboat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/2008\/RoastedChristmas\/IMG_0979-blog.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided it has the character of a cast iron pan &#8212; a little oil<br \/>\nand TLC, and it comes through like a champ.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px;\" alt=\"turkey\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/2008\/RoastedChristmas\/IMG_0981-blog.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Note the rounded bottom &#8212; no nasty corners to catch and hide cooking<br \/>\nfood.<\/p>\n<p>I think I know the perfect home for this old champ.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">A propos<\/span> of nothing in<br \/>\nparticular,&nbsp;&nbsp; Christmas sunset over Waterloo Lake:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px;\" alt=\"sunset\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/2008\/RoastedChristmas\/IMG_0975-blog.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry merry!&nbsp; Best wishes of the season. &nbsp;It&#8217;s certainly been merry here. An important point about message fragmentation.&nbsp; Here are 2 very different messages, each starting with the same first chunk: We found the roasting pan we thought we&#8217;d given &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/25\/roasted\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-food","category-misc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s7dQdt-roasted","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}