Wood Cooking Construct Clean Up

Ever detect yourself belongings dorsum on using a item pot or pan for woods cooking?  I hateful they practice instruct pretty darned dark if you lot role them on a woods fire.  Sometimes I hesitate to role a pot I unremarkably role alongside gas or alcohol on a woods stove because I don't desire to instruct the darned affair all black.

Well, concur dorsum no longer.  There's a unproblematic flim-flam out at that topographic point that tin instruct your pot construct clean ane time again after cooking on a woods fire.  The trick?  Dish soap.

Putting a sparse layer of dish lather on a pot earlier cooking alongside woods helps tremendously with construct clean up

Yep, that's right, simply unproblematic quondam dish soap.  Smear on a sparse layer earlier you lot caput out.  A footling dish lather makes construct clean upwards instruct together with then much easier.

Why bother you lot say?  It's simply going to instruct dingy again?  Well, together with that is ane agency to handgrip it.  You could simply pack your blackened pot inward a sealed plastic pocketbook together with then soot doesn't instruct all over.  But I role my pots alongside multiple fuels (gas, liquid, alcohol, wood, together with hexamine).  A coating of soot volition insulate your pot from the flame, together with you'll possess got to role to a greater extent than fuel to oestrus things up.  So, for me, when I'm done alongside to a greater extent than or less woods cooking together with desire to switch to to a greater extent than or less other fuel, I construct clean my pot.

How good does it work?  Let's possess got a look.

I'm simply going to role an quondam scrubber type sponge here.  You in all likelihood could role steel wool on a steel or titanium pot.  A give-and-take of warning:  Whatever you lot role to clean, you're going to instruct it really dirty.  You'll in all likelihood desire to throw the scrubber sponge away after together with then it won't instruct other things dirty.  Either that or you'll possess got to possess got a designated scrubber sponge for actually dingy construct clean ups.

So, here's my pot.  Pretty black.  Just waiting to instruct all over the within of my pack, together with pretty inefficient since oestrus is going to possess got to penetrate that coating earlier it heats the pot.

A rather sooty pot that has been used on a woods fire

Let's effort a quick scrub alongside to a greater extent than or less lather together with hot water.

A few scrubs, together with bare metallic starts to appear

Say, that's non likewise shabby for a few quick scrubs alongside an quondam scrubber sponge.  Makes quite a difference.

Let's effort to construct clean the worst spot, the bottom of the pot.

Quite a marked contrast betwixt the cleaned together with the uncleaned sections of the pot

Hey, forthwith that's quite a divergence betwixt the upper one-half of the pot that I've cleaned together with the lower one-half that I possess got not.

Now, I'd live a liar if I said that it came off similar magic.  Nope; it simply doesn't run that way.  It takes to a greater extent than or less existent elbow grease.  And, fifty-fifty when I finished cleaning the pot, at that topographic point were nevertheless to a greater extent than or less footling spots of dark inward the cracks together with such.  But effort cleaning a pot that's been used for woods fired cooking without get-go putting to a greater extent than or less dish lather on it.  The soot is non going to come upwards off anywhere nearly equally easily.

So there's your woods cooking construct clean upwards tip:  Smear a footling dish lather on the outside of your pot before you lot start cooking.  You'll live glad you lot did come upwards construct clean upwards time.

Thanks for joining me on to a greater extent than or less other Adventure In Stoving,

HJ