Remember that time my camera lens got smudged with rain at a picnic. The whole set came out with this soft, dreamy glow around everyone laughing. I still look at those messy shots more than the crisp ones from that day. Sometimes the flaws hold the memory better than the perfect picture ever could.

Honestly thought all the new materials were straight upgrades. Your post shows a real world problem I never considered. That much shrinkage could cause gaps and hot spots in a lining. Makes you wonder what other "improvements" actually perform worse under real heat stress. Did the ceramic blanket get brittle too, or just shrink?

Ugh, my garlic press is basically a fancy paperweight now.