New Brakes : Question for EBC Red Stuff owners

[Buckeye_S4]

I got new brakes today with Centric Cryo Premium rotors on front, standard Centrics on the back, USP stainless lines, super (used to be) blue fluid and EBC Red Stuff pads.

Question for those who have used EBC before; Did you follow their weird brake-in instructions and did that work out for you? So far I am doing what they say and babying for the first hundred miles.
Thanks

For reference this is what I read:

In Street use situations … Bedding in when the red EBC surface coating (marked on the pads as Brake In) is applied. Best procedure is to drive gently avoiding harsh braking unless in an emergency for first 100 miles. In the second 100 miles (up to 200) you can use gently increasing brake pressures when using the brakes.
Only after 200 miles urban driving (not 200 miles on a freeway where brakes are almost unused) should you attempt to apply heavy load and heat to the brakes. To do this final bedding on a QUIET ROAD in safe traffic apply the brakes and slow from 60 to 10 MPH five times in a row. Then drive slowly for a few minutes if safe to do so to allow the brakes to cool. Try to avoid coming to a rest whilst the brakes are heated.
A smell may be noticed from the warm brakes, this is normal. Repeat this procedure a second time after the brakes have TOTALLY cooled down. EBC pads get better with miles. Even after this bed in procedure it can take up to 1500 miles before the pads are at their best. In the meantime the pads will be good and safe but true potential not realised. EBC makes performance pads that last, they do not bed in within 5 minutes driving. Noises will be more likely during the first 1000-1500 miles use whilst this chemical bedding takes place.
NEVER attempt to sand or scotchbrite brake pads to assist it bedding in or noise reduction,this will only make things worse by taking the pads “Off-Flat” and require hundreds of miles driving to seat them again during which time the brakes will feel very dull. The only way to seat pads is against the rotor they will be used on and by following our bedding recommendation.

[A4 Centaur]

Those are pretty similar instructions for motorcycles as well.

They make great Brake Pads IMO.

[PsYkHoTiK]

Interesting. I've always used the below to bed in brakes:

Using threshold braking
60-30mph 5 times (to warm things up)
short cool down
60-20mph 10 times

cool down (5-10 mins of minimal braking)
60-10mph 10 times

repeat cool down

[belzebutt]

Do you find that the initial bite gets better after a while? I find them a bit soft. I did a couple of hard stops already so I guess my break-in period is kind of out the window, but I guess I'll try to baby them for 200 miles anyway.

[Norm_S4]

Interesting. I've always used the below to bed in brakes:

Using threshold braking
60-30mph 5 times (to warm things up)
short cool down
60-20mph 10 times

cool down (5-10 mins of minimal braking)
60-10mph 10 times

repeat cool down

Not exactly what I did but close to that

Do you find that the initial bite gets better after a while? I find them a bit soft. I did a couple of hard stops already so I guess my break-in period is kind of out the window, but I guess I'll try to baby them for 200 miles anyway.

Copied the above and man I like the red stuff. Very quiet and the soft feeling is just when they are cold. As soon as heat gets into these, I really like the response. I almost hated SS lines with the EOM pads (not a lot of room/feel to breaking) but now its sweet I also changed rotors so this may help obviously.

[iceboss23]

Just bedded in immediately after install... had no issues and worked great. Well, other than not lasting through 2 track days that is. Not a track pad IMHO. But for street use it was great.