If my wife doesn’t throw it at me first. she’s beyond pissed right now.
so quick story, my grandfather bought a gooseneck camper back in 2005. He used it for a few years before my grandmother’s dementia kicked in hard. Afterwards, he let us use it with the kids and we stocked it full of cast iron stuff. Well sometime between the last time we used it in 2020 and his estate auction in 2021, when we cleaned our stuff out of it, it sprung a leak and all that cast iron got wet and rusted. Bad. We tried to wire wheel it and reseason it but nothing worked to get that deep of rust off. So my wife wanted to send it to the local sandblasting shop, who was very hesitant about doing food grade cast iron and really suggested we try to recondition it another way. Anyway, today I went and got a couple gallons of white vinegar. I soaked it all in our big kitchen sink for about 4 hours. Then I scrubbed it with steel wool and reseasoned it. While not perfect, it’s a LOT better off. I’ll repeat this process again as I think about 4-6 hours of soaking the worst pot will be like new
but it made the house stink of burnt oil and vinegar… a day after she deep cleaned lol