pasusan wrote:
I've finally gotten into cast iron cooking. And I want to do it over a fire when we're camping.
What do you do about the black soot that coats the outside of the pan? Do you just clean it off? And - how?
Or do you have a special pan that is always getting sooty?
Not sure about what to do...
When I was a young kid and when camping cooked almost exclusively over the fire we would put some liquid dish soap (Joy was my mom's detergent of choice) on a paper towel and wipe the outside of all pots and pans including the skillet. A nice even coat of the liquid detergent/soap made it easy to wash off the soot.
Mom liked the liquid Joy because it also worked well in salt water. We did a lot of beach camping where we landed by boat.
I'm sure just about any liquid soap/detergent would leave a nice "parting agent" on the cast iron to make the soot easier to remove.
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