Bamboo question..
I've got some very nice large diameter bamboo, was already fairly well aged, I am however heat treating it to get some final shrinkage/darker coloring, rather then going with the torch I'm using the oven method, from everything I've read/seen I would have thought they'd only need one cooking, I have a brown but it's nowhere near as dark as anyone elses I've seen, I'm suspecting it's because I didn't scorch the outside and let it all caramalize at once instead of heating the outside to get the inside, opinions please on if it needs a second round in the oven?