Hi ya! Hope your are all enjoying the cooler weather. I have a few Op shops I frequent as you never know what you’ll find. In St Vinnies the other day I came across a 12 inch skillet that I thought needed a better home than the bottom shelf of the pots and pan display. The first thing was to run it over and I thought I’d struck gold, when I saw Wagner! And a second glance I saw ‘made in China’ - damn! Was my first reaction. But, I carried it around the rest of the store for a while and it sort of grew on me. I needed a large skillet that wasn’t non-stick aluminium and the $15 dollar price tag was within my budget. I gave it a better inspection outside in the sunlight and it was rust free, still had the original ‘seasoning’ an looked like it had been only use a couple of times. I have two Chinese spinifex camp oven and thought that for $15 I’d give it a go.
So, here it is a few days later and I set about scrubbing the inside - and a bit of the outside - back to the nice grey cast iron colour.

I think another 3 cycles will get it to a usable dark colour ready for some serious camp fire cooking.some nice lamb chops me thinks.

I made a stainless steel hot area a while back to house my Camp-ovens and now I’ll have to think about retasking the one on the other side of ‘The Taj’. Might have to reassign the space the flat plate takes up under the gas cooker.

This is after 5 cycles. I’m very happy how it came up. It also has it’s own space in the Canopy under the Esky.