[TheForge] Here is a good question. Hard to believe also.

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> What exactly would you cook in a 1000 lb cast iron pot?  Or is that not
such
> a big pot?
>

I think you might be misunderstanding- he said,

"He then says that the pot rack and cast iron pots will weigh 1000 pounds.
I write back asking if he put one too many zeros on his figure.
Nope......1000 pounds it is.  He also wants the chain in copper."

He's talking a pot rack and several pots, and cast iron is heavy. My big
soup pot, 28" diameter, weighs about 50 lbs empty, which is why when Johan
and I built the tripod, we made it out of 3/4 inch round bar stock- full, it
will be much heavier. I suppose I ought to put a picture of it up where you
guys can see it.

I'm seriously looking at another one, if I can get it which is about 5 ft in
diameter, and it weighs about 1000 lbs. We're thinking about using it as a
hot tub at Pennsic ;-) Never said I had any sense ;-) It was originally used
for rendering. Many old farms used to have pots that size they used for
rendering, pig scalding and soap making- you can still find them if you
look.


Phlip

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....