A friend gave me two pieces of dried oak to experiment with toasting.
"sound easy" thinks the silly innocent child in my head.
that stuff took some labor and a sledge hammer and BIG axe to split
into remotely thumb sized pieces as Ehow suggested.
I also read that Jack Daniels is toasted at 450 for 5 hours.
Quickly, I stacked staves of oak on my oven rack assuring my
counterpart that this shouldn't take "too long"
MY house is now filled with smoke, I am getting mean evil looks,
and i'm only one hour into this. Hopefully something magical happens before the fire truck arrives.
anyone else venture into this level of madness?