>"Phyllis Stone" wrote:
>
>All this talk of CI so I was looking at my oldest one and it is
>looking bad. The outside has a coat of burned on stuff, not the bottom
>but the sides. We don't camp so I can't put it in a campfire. I have
>heard you should put it in a selfcleaning oven. Does this work and can
>it hurt the pan? Is there another way to clean it?

Over heating cast iron is not a good idea... cast iron engines crack/warp from
over heating all the time. Removing years of baked on food is easy... place
cookware in heavy plastic trash bag, add a few ounces of ordinary household
ammonia and seal bag. Do this outdoors. Do not breathe fumes. Do NOT ever add
bleach to ammonia. After 48 hours clean cookware with ordinary dish liquid,
baked on crud will slide right off.




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