Update - Walnut cookies

[Leo Voisine]

So,

I tried some microwave and low temp oven on 3 of the cookies. I measures weight and moisture content.
Yes it works - BUT - Only on a very very thin surface thickness.
I DID drive out some weight, AND, I DID get the surface down to 5% - BUT - ONLY on a very thin surface.

I ran one of the cookies thru my drum sander and got all the saw marks out, then ROS down to 220, then hand sanded with a block at 220.



It is cool - BUT - another moisture meter check after sanding and it's back up to 30%
Sooo - it will almost certainly crack.
I am sure a 24 hour or more in the oven would drive out more moisture but I am just not willing to do that.

Today I mixed up the 10 pound of PEG and I have several cookies soaking in that solution until next month.
I also coated 20 cookies with Anchor seal on both sides.

I have another 10-12 cookies that I may try a DNA bath.

 

[Ryan Mooney]

Looks like some of that first run has some incipient radial cracking already as well.

The other folks I've seen do microwaving had to do quite a lot of it to drive the moisture out... I've never tried it but I've heard of a few times where things actually caught on fire.

 

[Rennie Heuer]

Maybe its just me, but does no one else see ET in that cookie?

 

[Jay Caughron]

Maybe its just me, but does no one else see ET in that cookie?

That's what I was thinking too Rennie

 

[Leo Voisine]

ET call home

Ryan yes I did notice those cracks as well. Those don't really bother me, but they will certainly grow.

 

[Jonathan Shively]

If you are still using your furnace, put them on top of a heat run. They are out of a lot of air movement and they will dry at a steadier rate.

 

[Rennie Heuer]

ET call home

 

[Ted Calver]

April just posted an interesting desk made with cookies.