Gone To Pot

It may be remembered that The Fuzz had dragged an old Iron Skillet out from his pile for the campers.

Well that wasn't the only cast iron down there.

So he brought this other one out to the woods.

As can be seen, it wasn't in exactly pristine condition.

He put it out under the shed for the time being.

This was probably another manifestation of that dreaded P-Factor.

The Fuzz is actually quite fond of iron cookware.  And people seemed to discard it from time to time.  With his position on the trash truck he had the opportunity to pick a piece up from time to time.

At one time he had a set stashed out at a campsite in the woods.

Unfortunately, this stuff sorta "disappeared" on him.

Of course there were still the ones in the kitchen- just some of the skillets.

Iron does have it's limitations.  For instance it's a bad idea to cook up tomatoes (or other acidic stuff) in it.

But let's face it, what better way to fry up a mess of bacon?

In this case, The Fuzz finally faced the fact that he would never get to actually use this thing until he got it cleaned up.

So he put some wire brushes in his drill and got the worst of the rust out.

Then he brought it inside, washed it off and dried it good in the oven.

Next he coated it pretty well with some oil and popped it back in there few a few hours.

It was looking better at that point.

To finish up, The Fuzz got out a nice little piece of Fat Meat and heated it up on the stovetop.  Then he rubbed this all over the inside of the pot and lid, and put it back in the oven.

A few days later, he finished the job by cookin' up a nice mess of pork, carrots, turnips and taters.

And here we are!

By the way, it was quite tasty.