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Message: <blockquote data-quote="red dirt shootist" data-source="post: 4306687" data-attributes="member: 52708"><p>I've had a love affair with cast iron also, actually anything black and heavy, but that's a story for another time. When I lived up north, while walking in the woods, I would sometimes come across an old dump, everything would be destroyed except for glass and cast iron. I would bring the cast iron home, and I had a pretty good collection, but damn it looked rough. A friend came over and told me to put those pieces in my wood stove overnight, and in the morning they would look new. I had to wait for winter, and I got the stove good and hot, outside it might be 30-35 degrees, the coldest I ever saw it was 36, that's below zero buckwheat, and I'm inside in my underwear, sipping some of Kentucky's finest, and I don't have a care in the world. Now the stove was welded up out of 1/4 inch plate, and I had come up with a way to fill it with logs and bank a fire all night, and when I turned out the lights the whole stove was glowing cherry red. But getting back to the cast iron, in the morning it would come out so clean it looked sandblasted, it was crazy, then just season and after a while it would turn black. Speaking of black, well, someday that will be "the rest of the story."</p></blockquote><p></p>