southsamurai

I dunno for sure, but that looks like something in the 400 grit range followed by steel wool.

It’s a lot of work tbh. Enough so that I don’t do it any more.

But, it does improve the cooking surface. You sand down and season with flax oil, and you’ve got a great surface that even eggs won’t give you too much trouble cleaning up.

It doesn’t have to be perfectly smooth, mirror finish. And some small pits are okay. No need to really grind the hell out of a pan, you just want to kinda even it out so there’s less texture, with the end point being where you decide is good enough.

Back the last time I did one, I used an orbital sander with 200/400/600 progression, then hand sanded to 800, and it was more than smooth enough. Going past that is diminishing returns. I’ve seen people do a mirror finish and it wasn’t worth the time imo. Even 800 is kinda extra tbh. You just don’t want highly visible scratches.

Same as it does on a rough surface.

You get the oils polymerizing, which is going to stick to pretty much anything, no matter how smooth it looks. The surface isn’t microscopically smooth, there’s still roughness.

However, it wouldn’t matter if it was perfectly smooth. The bonding between the iron and the oils isn’t purely mechanical. It bonds on a molecular level, meaning that the little bits on the atoms of the polymerized oil make sweet, slippery love to the little bits on the atoms of the pan.

A smoother surface is actually better. You don’t have as irregular a surface on the polymer, and there’s less gaps where they contact the metal. Which, ideally, you’ll be applying very thin coats and prevent gaps, but it’s never a perfect process.

Sanding down a pan before seasoning improves the bond, improves the cooking surface, and makes it easier to season.

You ever use a stainless steel pan of some kind and have oil get solid-ish on it? It leaves that layer of brownish, maybe amber stuff that’s slick and hard to scrape off. It’s the same thing. You can polish stainless still to a mirror finish and that will still happen, and it’ll still be difficult to remove.

When it comes to that, a rough surface is more likely to chip, flake, or otherwise fail.

Your best seasoned pan is going to be sanded smooth, then seasoned with food grade flax oil (though it is by no means the only option, it’s the best drying oil that’s food grade). You’ll cycle it three to five times, depending on your freedom to do so. Then you’ll have very low stick, heat resistant surface.

Now, nothing is perfect. If you can’t get flaxseed, stuff like canola that’s semi hardening will work almost as well (most of the time, you can’t tell the difference until or unless you abuse the hell out of the pan). If you can’t get that, any oil that’s safe to eat will get the job done to some degree, so long as it’s heat reactive at oven temps. Which, if you can’t get flaxseed, the chances of being able to source anything that unusual isn’t likely to begin with.

Well, one thing is that the kind of jewellery used in nipples isn’t going to be the same as in ears. You can kinda use actual hoop earrings as a ring in other places, but it won’t be a great idea. Most of the time, hoop earrings have a very thin part that goes through the ear, as in thin enough to essentially be a wire.

The way nipples get pierced leaves a bigger channel through the nipple. So, you use the thin wire in that hole, and you get irritation as well as a higher risk of it causing trouble when it gets snagged because a thinner gauge is going to pull through skin easier (up to a point). Most hoops for ears also use a different way of closing. The little wire gets put into a hollow in the opposite end, whereas body jewelry tends to be secured by balls that are either screwed on, or are pushed into place and secured by divots in the ball.

I’m not saying that nobody ever uses regular hoops in their nipples, I know plenty of people that do. I’m saying that you wouldn’t mistake one kind of ring for the other; there’s really not much visual overlap.

As far as how you would write the kind of idea you’re wanting to express, that’s a more complicated question. I tend to favor such things coming out via dialogue. Two old friends talking about the things they’ve left behind, there’s a dozen ways to say that one of them has stopped wearing their body jewelry.

Or was it shöen?

C’mon, y’all all were singing it too

If it swims, it’s a fish

Fwiw, and I don’t know if it was intentional or not, it’s embarrassed and wielder, not imbarrest or wilder.

Jfc, that’s where I got mine!

Look, I’m not saying I wouldn’t make sweet, sweaty man love with the chief, I’m just saying that he’s not the kind of eye candy the rest are.

Legit, Takei and Bakula win the pec contest. But Nimoy coming in a damn close second place. I always forget how fit he was; better than Shatner overall.

Takei though, damn. Dude was fucking ripped.

That being said, both Bakula and Stewart were a good bit older than the rest at the time those pics were taken, so mad respect for the work they put in.

I mean, most people do it across, rather than along the blade, what with the necessity of detecting a burr, which can’t usually be felt length wise. You slide along the blade, and it is sharp, if you screw up you get cut.

That doesn’t take away from what you’re saying, it’s very true, no matter which direction you’re feeling. Just normal, average fingertips can pick up stuff like that, that you’d need a microscope to see. It’s a trip!

If this holds up, then mint users are rocking a thirty year old one cup drip machine that only has one button, and only makes one regular mug at a time.

Yeah, boob owners seem to not fully appreciate the sheer joy of having regular access to boobs for a boob lover. It’s like, “I can see and/or touch those forever? Hell yeah!” But I guess if you aren’t a boob lover, having them might make them become old hat after the first few years.

The good news? My wife is leaving me her boobs in her will.

Well, I can say this much: never discuss your philosophy on life and death with your doctor, because you’ll need to find another doctor after they flip their shit and assume you’re going to off yourself.

;)

Good idea!

Nah, she’s got this one old, worn out bastard pf a sasquatch, but she’s a free agent otherwise

Jfc, my wife does this. And it works every fucking time

According to Ponder Stibbons, he is obsessed with them.

Yeah, I feel that. If we accept things as they come, and accept when they leave, even the bad things are less bad because we know they’ll leave, and we can work on letting them go easier.