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Good tutorial on cleaning old stuff:

http://www.curbly.com/Chrisjob/posts/16 ... n-Cookware

That was one of the more retarded things I've read in a while.

Here's a MUCH better and easier way to clean cast iron --

If it's summer, throw it in the campfire.

If it's winter, throw it in the woodstove.

Wipe it off and oil it after the fire goes out.


Duh.

Rocket surgery.

Dins,

Does that get the rust off?

If you get it hot enough it sure does.


I wasn't making that up-btw.

In fact, I'm suprised everyone doesn't know that. Only way I've ever seen a neglected one brought back to life, actually.

I think the article is good for explaining how to prepare a "found object" cast iron implement for use. Yet, I am crouched here in humble PA, and therefore know nada.

PSUFAN wrote:I think the article is good for explaining how to prepare a "found object" cast iron implement for use.

By using a bunch of enviro-death chemicals, making trips to the hardware store, removing excess material from the pan, and busting out the power tools?

Completely freaking asinine. My much better technique has been used on a skillet that came out of ten years in damp storage. Took about...oh, I dunno...maybe 60 seconds or less of actual labor.


But I guess I should have gone to the chemical store, the hardware store, rinsed toxic chemicals in my yard, put $12 worth of new organic cartridges in my respirator(because if you breath oven cleaner without an adequate respirator, you're a fucking idiot who is rapidly going to become a bigger idiot), busted out my drill, then did the Macarena in the meantime, instead of doing it the way that has worked quite well for a few centuries, and cost about $0.02 in oil afterwards.

Saw this in a blowg

If you have access to an open fire, best thing is to sit the cookware in the flame. Be careful to leave the handle outside the fire so you can reclaim it. I swear I saw this work one year when we were burning some debris behind our house. My mother comes out with these nasty crusted cast iron pans and throws them in the fire. At first, I thought she had lost her mind, but after about an hour or so, she took them out and they looked brand new.

I admit to never hearing of this.

IndyFrisco wrote: I admit to never hearing of this.

Stick with me, dude -- you'll learn all kinds of cool shit.

IndyFrisco wrote:Saw this in a blowg

If you have access to an open fire, best thing is to sit the cookware in the flame. Be careful to leave the handle outside the fire so you can reclaim it. I swear I saw this work one year when we were burning some debris behind our house. My mother comes out with these nasty crusted cast iron pans and throws them in the fire. At first, I thought she had lost her mind, but after about an hour or so, she took them out and they looked brand new.

I admit to never hearing of this.

I tried that once with some Tupperware and it came out barely useable.

Horrible technique for washing the dog, as well.


Money for cast iron skillets, though.

Dinsdale wrote:Horrible technique for washing the dog, as well.

Now you tell me.

FUCK.

My dog smells like a Barber shop after a little Jewish lightning.

Shoulda put a stick up his ass and called the the friends over for Chinese

If poptart gets wind of this thread, he'll have your head for confusing Chinese with Korean.

They don't all cook alike.