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FiresideChats Member
Joined: 20 Jan 2014 Posts: 365 | TRs | Pics Location: San Juan Islands |
Couldn't find a thread on this topic:
Any tricks for cleaning the black soot off of pots and pans, either from propane or campfire cooking? Elbow grease and effort are great, but is there something that would help?
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pcg Member
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Sat Aug 08, 2020 5:24 pm
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FiresideChats Member
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camut Member
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Sat Aug 08, 2020 9:15 pm
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Bar Keepers Friend would be my suggestion.
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Anne Elk BrontosaurusTheorist
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Sat Aug 08, 2020 9:28 pm
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^^^ I thought of that too. And maybe a better "scrubber" - like fine steel wool.
"There are yahoos out there. It’s why we can’t have nice things." - Tom Mahood
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Randito Snarky Member
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Sat Aug 08, 2020 9:56 pm
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FWIW: This is awesome for cast iron and removing burned on debris.
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FiresideChats Member
Joined: 20 Jan 2014 Posts: 365 | TRs | Pics Location: San Juan Islands |
Thanks for the tips. Most helpful.
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slugsworth Member
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My dad always had me rub a bar of soap on the outside of a pot I planned on using on a wood fire. I haven't done it since i was a teenager, but worth a shot.
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slugsworth wrote: | My dad always had me rub a bar of soap on the outside of a pot I planned on using on a wood fire. |
What we learn from our dads! My dad taught me to scrape a bar of soap under my finger nails before working on something dirty.
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Ski ><((((°>
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Thu Aug 13, 2020 3:57 pm
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Randy wrote: | (link to chain mail pot scrubber) |
"Currently unavailable"
but I have to ask: how many of those would I need to buy to make a stainless steel chainmail tunic?
we always just took the pots and pans down to the river and washed 'em with a handful of sand.
but I stopped cooking over a fire about.... 30 years ago.
somebody invented a thing called "STOVE"
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JVesquire Member
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You can soap your pots, but I just don't worry about the campfire soot on pots. I get a stuff sack or other bag and nest the pots in each bag if they're soaped, or just don't worry about it. A quick rinse gets soot out of the inside from nesting, and a decent scrub gets most of the stuff off that comes off with a light touch. Otherwise, elbow grease and an SOS pad is the only hope.
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Randito Snarky Member
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Fri Aug 28, 2020 3:24 pm
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Ski wrote: | but I have to ask: how many of those would I need to buy to make a stainless steel chainmail tunic? |
IDK, but a colleague of mine that is Society For Creative Anacronism fan / CosPlayer felt the right way to have a proper chain mail shirt was to buy split rings by the gallon and "weave" his own while watching TV. It took months, but made a good impression at a ComicCon.
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Randito Snarky Member
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Fri Aug 28, 2020 3:31 pm
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One thing I recall from scouts was the "soap the pot" approach to easing the removal of soot. It does help.
However avoid the mistake that another troop made at a Camporee I once attended who had only read in a book about soaping the pot and applied soap to the inside as well as the outside. The whole troop had explosive diarrhea.
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the1mitch Member
Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 280 | TRs | Pics Location: Snohomish |
just a thought, why scrub? I was taught that a black pot heated faster and saved fuel. I only scrub the inside.
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