Thread: help cleaning dutch oven

When we make chowder in a large kettle, the kettle gets suited up like that, we just use dawn dish soap on the outside with a scotch bright pad and then we just oil it up again.

First off the burner that is burning yellow needs to have the air plate adjusted to make it burn blue or turn down the gas. Secondly, you can keep the exterior of the dutch oven clean by coated it lightly with dawn detergent. Let it dry. Now when you use it again the soot will collect on the soap layer and be rinsed off when you wash the oven. We use our dutch ovens when we camp out and we maintain the exterior with the soap. Hope this helps.

Check the inside of the burner tube for spider webs. They will cause the burner to burn yellow and soot.

thanks, i guess i should keep stuff a little cleaner around here. the tube was full of spider webs, and i'll adjust the air plate next time fire it up, thanks alot.

scrub the crap outta it and reseason

try scrubbing it with a very coarse salt and a damp(not wet) dishrag.

Originally Posted by duc hntr

When we make chowder in a large kettle, the kettle gets suited up like that, we just use dawn dish soap on the outside with a scotch bright pad and then we just oil it up again.

This is the way to do it...you don't need to take your seasoning off...just clean this way...

I jus thro the sheets in the washn machine