Cast Iron

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A community for cast iron cookware. Recipes, care, restoration, identification, etc.

Rules: Be helpful when you can, be respectful always, and keep cooking bacon.

More rules may come as the community grows, but for now, I'll remove spam or anything obviously mean-spirited, and leave it at that.

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Thrifted Griswald is contaminated with lead :( (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago by capybeby@sh.itjust.works to c/castiron@lemmy.world

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Sigh. Always test cast iron of unknown history. Any wall mounting tips lol?

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[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Not that it's a cast iron level of this issue, but I knew a guy who paid for college (this woud have been about 10 years ago now) by purchasing scavenged and derelict boats, then chopping\melting the lead ballast out of them to resell as raw metal. Never underestimate the value of scrap metal or people's willingness to gather it up for money.

[–] Mpatch@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

There is a multi billion dollar industry revolving around scrap metals.