A little over a year ago I posted about this Dutch oven that I almost saved from my dad’s estate sale but he swiped it back from me after I cleaned it up (I was cleaning it for the sale, he didn’t know I was thinking about keeping it).
Well, Dad passed away in April and I’ve been low-key looking for this thing for like a month and a half. Last weekend I finally found it. In the barn. Getting rusty. Again. I have to keep it now for two reasons. One, it has too much of a story to give up now and two, if I find out that anyone let this damn thing get rusty again, I’m going to lose my shit!
Looking nice!! If you keep cleaning it with one of those steely things those pits will eventually fill up with polymerised oil and get smoother. I used a piece of hardened tool steel and actually scraped the cooking surface almost mirror smooth. Cooks like a dream.
And avoid sour stuff like tomatoes as it does the same as vinegar but I find that a hot pan with oil survives even that, so long as you get it out of the pan as soon as you’re done. Then again, as you’re now know, fixing it is dirt simple.