re: Burnt the frick out of my ceramic cast-iron pot. What do I do?

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Barkeeper's Friend

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This will get it

fill with coke (soda) let it sit and scrap, do it again and again, add baking soda also.

Not exactly sure what you're dealing with. I'm assuming by bottom of the pot you're saying it's on the cooking side not the actual bottom of the pot. Anyway, my first year in college, my parents gave me a cast iron skillet. I didn't read the directions and cooked with it without seasoning it first so it ended up looking like this.



So after some googling I found out i could clean it with this...



...and then season it afterwards with this.



Now it looks like this.

good stuff! I need to try this on mine.

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ceramic cast iron?

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That's what I was thinking. I had to look it up. Ceramic cast iron seems to be for yuppies who don't know how to take care of real cast iron cookware.

Pour some bleach in the pot and let it sit over night. repeat if needed.

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Ceramic cast iron seems to be for yuppies who don't know how to take care of real cast iron cookware.

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Similar but distinct. Enamel holds the heat real well and allows you to cook very similarly to cast iron, but cast iron also flavors what comes out of it at least a little bit. Enamel doesn't. So if you didn't want that flavor, enameled cast iron is a pretty good way to go.

And yes, the maintenance on it is pretty nice.

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sorry your daughters are fat, bro.

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lol. If you only knew.

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Seriously. attending auctions, I bought several skillets, etc. that were rusty. I cleaned them/re-curred with intentions of giving them to my daughters later.

It dawned on me that there is no way they'll want the maintenance -howver minor it is. Today's generation, for the most part, is about SPEED. Hell they hardly cook nowadays. It's all fast food. That's why our country has obesity issues.

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When my grandmother passed away several years ago, the family was going through her house, cleaning things out to sell it. They asked all of us grandchildren if there was anything we wanted. I wanted the sign that hung outside the front door. It was just our last name, but being the only boy grandchild, and having two married sisters, they'd have no use for it. And I wanted one of her cast iron skillets. It is one of the smaller ones, but makes the best cornbread. It is probably 60-70 years old. I have some "new" ones that I bought at a store about a dozen years ago in college, but they can't touch the old one for how well seasoned it is.

It isn't that much maintenance really. I cook in it, and rinse it out and wipe anything left in it out with a rag and toss it in the oven with some lard in it.

Lots of replies in here. Some good, some not.

You don't know me and have no reason to put my opinion over the rest, but I do know what I'm talking about.
If you just have some caked on carbon/food in the bottom of an enamel coated cast iron pot, just put some dishwashing detergent mixed with water in it and let it sit overnight. The next day take some baking soda or laundry detergent (yes, laundry detergent) and coat the bottom with it. Scrub it with a non-abrasive sponge or paper towels. It should come right off. You might have to repeat the baking soda (or laundry detergent) a few times but it will come off.