Spent my afternoon working some 'old' cast iron

some of your pictures aren't showing up for me

I would have given it a vinegar and water bath for about 30 minutes. All that rust would have fallen off

What type of vinegar? Ratio you use of vinegar to water? What's best method to re-season? Looking to do this for a 5 gallon round bottom.

Reviving cast iron
I used this method and it worked very well. Can't beat cast iron

I'm going to start a thread soon on how I put my nasty flooded cast iron in my fire pit to clean them.


Then scrubbed them like a maniac, then seasoned them on my grill after throughly applying crisco.

Cut a potato in half and liberally apply sea salt.

Use cut patato to scrub inside and our.
Then Use wire brush to clean surface.( residue )


The Red will NOT go completely a way.

Then you can season with oil.

White vinegar. Half and half. Do a half hour at a time and rinse and scrub with an sos pad.

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Fire isn't the best method, that is old school. You can damage them that way.

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I'm literally a pryro maniac.
There is nothing no-one on this board can tell me about re-salvaging cast iron or fire.

I was making fires on our land while camping out as young as 8yrs old.


I've been saving and cleaning cast iron since I was 12 yrs old (30+ yrs)

You have to know how hot your fire is. Like I said it's a method and you have to know what you're doing, or yeah...
You can "crack" your cast iron.




.....Just sayin'


Eta: I'm not saying you're wrong, but there's more than one way to skin a cat.