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I've been doing it the cold-water-down-the-spout-and-in-the-pot method for about 50 years now, no complaints.
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I've been doing it the cold-water-down-the-spout-and-in-the-pot method for about 50 years now, no complaints.
Nobody's using a French press ? I know I know, I said French press and it sounds like something %$ssies would use. But they make a great cup of coffee and you can pack your grounds in a plastic bag and store them in it. You just need hot water and you get a perfect cup of joe.
Straight razors are a great way to impress friends and the ladies for that matter. Not nearly as dangerous as you would think ( just don't draw the blade sideways ) makes you feel like a old timey mans man, gives a very smooth shave if done correctly.
What about reseating a tire to bead ? You can use grease to help make a better seal. Or you can do the truckers trick and use ether and a match.
Straight razors are a great way to impress friends and the ladies for that matter. Not nearly as dangerous as you would think ( just don't draw the blade sideways ) makes you feel like a old timey mans man, gives a very smooth shave if done correctly.
What about reseating a tire to bead ? You can use grease to help make a better seal. Or you can do the truckers trick and use ether and a match.
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We used a french press for years at home before I got the Keurig. Excellent system.
I have a backpacking french press in my chow go-bag for short, impromptu trips. But for longer trips I really like the coffee boiler. When it gets low, just add a handful of coffee, top of the water bring back to boil and do the cold water trick. Classic.
Ratchet strap around the middle of the tread will reseat a tire bead if you've got air. Of course if you've not got air, what difference does it make if the bead is seated or no?
But they make a great cup of . You just need hot water and you get a perfect cup of joe.
X2 ^^^ on the french press. I have an old lard press that doubles as a "small batch wine/cider press" as well. (stock photo) Medicinal purposes of course....
you are correct--they will--cast iron only!!
Even the newer cast stuff is a little iffy--find an old Griswold or Wagner-(or Favorite/Puritan)-no matter the condition-you can usually clean it up without too much trouble--cleaned and seasoned, it will last longer than you--Beware of the one that might be warped, though-this is a casting flaw, and is not fixable(is that a word?) The rust is just a lack of Pork fat---
Find the book "Jack's Skillet" at the library, or where-ever--there's nothing you can't cook in a cast iron skillet.---
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I can't recall the brand of our DO... Dianna's Dad bought it in the 60's... we keep it in a storage room down the road.
I stripped it and seasoned it outside, one hot Central Texas day, on our gas grill, at 500* - I think I rubbed it with oil and brought it up to 500* about a dozen times. We keep it oiled, in its own case and it's always ready to do a great job for us!!
If you take care of it... and learn how to control the heat, for various recipes, it will feed you well!!
DO Cooking makes camping even more fun and memorable!!
I stripped it and seasoned it outside, one hot Central Texas day, on our gas grill, at 500* - I think I rubbed it with oil and brought it up to 500* about a dozen times. We keep it oiled, in its own case and it's always ready to do a great job for us!!
If you take care of it... and learn how to control the heat, for various recipes, it will feed you well!!
DO Cooking makes camping even more fun and memorable!!
I've bought several cast iron skillets etc. that looked like junk. I'll take them on a camping trip and put them in the bottom of my fire pit. After a couple of hot fires they come out looking like they've been sand blasted. I then season them like they were new.
Electrolysis works to restore cast iron and is quick. I've done a couple of pieces. There are lots of youtube videos on how to do it. My method was simpler, an apple box lined with a trash bag, a solution of washing soda, a trickle charger and a piece of sheet metal for a sacrificial anode. once you strip the cast iron you need to season it pretty fast or it will oxidize.
It will rust too
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So where do you get the cold water? That is if you are purifying silty water. What I'm saying is if I'm boiling silty water to sterilize it I'd need some pure (sterile) water to do this trick.I've been doing it the cold-water-down-the-spout-and-in-the-pot method for about 50 years now, no complaints.
I don't drink coffee, but it seems like you could rig a battery operated pump to suck silty water through a LifeStraw...
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Just pick up some cheesecloth and pour it through that. A t-shirt would work for all that.
I would think it's a pipe dream to think that cast iron gives more even temperatures than aluminum. The thermal conductivity of the latter is way higher IIANM, so the temperature with alum will be much more even than with cast iron, everything else the same. Not much wiggle room there unfortunately.
Your argument assumes an even heat source, which is most time not the case when using a dutch oven. The heat source for dutch oven cooking is typically charcoal or hot coals from a fire which tend to have many localized hot spots. Cast iron transfers heat slowly, dispersing the heat from hot spots, resulting in a more uniform heat transfer to the contents of the oven. Aluminum transfers heat rapidly with little "spread" to the heat resulting in hot spots being transferred directly from the heat source to the contents of the oven. Been there, done that, ate the burnt cobbler anyway.
Someone mentioned about seating a tire bead,you could use lighter fluid and a few matches just put a small amount of lighter fluid inside the tire and let it vaporize a bit and toss in the match and your tire would seat the bead for sure.
I have tried this on a vehicle that leaked gas from a small puncture,get a bar of soap and slowly work the bar into the leak source this should hold up until you get home to fix it.
I have tried this on a vehicle that leaked gas from a small puncture,get a bar of soap and slowly work the bar into the leak source this should hold up until you get home to fix it.
Need to be very careful with this, as the electro will "pit" the iron--very bad for your skillet if you want it to be a dedicated "egg pan", But for most other uses, it would work fine(especially cobblers and pies)