[Sca-cooks] Seasoning a Potjie

[Volker Bach]

Am Sonntag, 19. Juni 2005 20:08 schrieb Phlip:

> Caution- you don't want flame while you're seasoning- it'll just burn up
> the oil. Make a bed of coals, add the pot, then you can add more wood to
> the fire area, and scrape coals towards the pot as the wood becomes coals.
>
> Also, just because the pot is black doesn't mean it has cooled. Either plan
> on leaving the potjie there until the fire is dead out, or arrange some way
> to move it without you touching it- a bar that can go through the bail, and
> lift it, with one of you on each end, for example. You do NOT want to cool
> the thing suddenly, or it will crack or break- cast iron is pretty fragile.
> I know, I've broken it ;-) And once it's broken, it's pretty worthless.
> There are ways to weld it, but it's never as good as it was before it
> broke, and it can't readily be remelted and reformed.

hmmm ... I was thinking of using commercial barbecue charcoal and keeping the 
pot in there for a few hours, then lifting it out with a broomstick or 
something like it and putting it down on the paving stones to cool for an 
hour or so. Will that work? 

Giano


	

	
		
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