I resuscitated one of my old dutch ovens today

[Swamprat1958]

I have a twelve inch Lodge dutch oven that I had used exclusively for frying fish for about 10 years and then put in the shop and forgot about. It still had oil in it and the lid was pretty rusty, but it was in decent shape. I emptied all the old oil and used scalding hot water to loosen up the layers accumulated oil and corn meal. After I wiped all the old gunk out of it I scalded it again and rubbed it down in Crisco and re-seasoned it in the oven. Now I need to try it out to make certain it is ready to go to the woods.

[crashdive123]

I love cast iron cookware. Got any before and after pics?

[Rick]

Cast iron is the berries...er...a...well, cast iron. You know what I mean.

[Swamprat1958]

I love cast iron cookware. Got any before and after pics?

Unfortunately I didn't think about before pics, but I might could do an after pic this evening.

[Rick]

Just do an after pic today and date it yesterday.

[Swamprat1958]

My camera batteries were dead and I just got new ones for it yesterday, so here are the "after" pics of the dutch oven.


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[crashdive123]

Looks great! What's for dinner?

[Swamprat1958]

It will be chili tonight.

[Rick]

That's a great all around size. I really like those.

By the way, what kind of preps let's the batteries run down. We need to talk about this.

[Rick]

It will be chili tonight.

Nope. I ain't gonna do it. It's just too easy.

[Swamprat1958]

That's a great all around size. I really like those.

By the way, what kind of preps let's the batteries run down. We need to talk about this.

It is the kind of preps where your 12 year old sun discovered the same batteries which work in my camera also work in his radio controlled car. He just forgot to tell me that he had been using the batteries. He decided the rechargeable batteries that I bought for the car just don't last as long as my energizer batteries and used them instead. I guess it could be worse, he could have decided my beer tastes better than his soft drinks, etc., etc.

[Rick]

Oooh, yeah. Those kind. I get hit up with that from time to time from the wifey.

"Honey? Do you know what happened to the .357?"
"I used it to prop up that table with the short leg."
"All righty then. Just wonderin'."