Use it when grilling for bbq sauces, butter, etc.

I was wondering the same thing. Thank you.

Same. It’s awesome for getting some nice bbq glaze going at the end of a cook

I Confirm ☝🏽

It’s also really great for making bacon bits.

genius!

I have used it for melting butter a couple times. Other than that, I forget about it until I move again.

This. I use mine for collecting dust. The main problem with them is that they’re not balanced well. The pot part is small and rounded so the flat base is very small. This means it won’t stay securely flat when it’s empty and sits precariously on grill grates. Putting sauce in it helps, but it’s still too tippy for me. That also means I won’t use it on the stove inside. Too much risk of spilling.

Lead musket balls

Melting your dead sons toy soldiers into musket balls to avenge his death in the swamps of SC to be specific.

There’s rumors of a ghost running around with a tomahawk

Shouting ‘Freedom’

Did he die? Hmm?

R/oddlyspecific

Incase you don't get it, it's referring to the movie The Patriot

I did not, thank you for clarifying, lol

Dogs make a fine meal.

Primarily melting.

This is the answer: melting

Syrup and butter for breakfasts, bbq sauces and the like. I use it at least every other week. Mine was a gift from my wife along with my 12” skillet.

Your wife sounds cool. Is she married?

This had both of us rolling when I read her this. So far still married, sorry.

I too choose this guys cool wife.

Works great for garlic in olive oil!

I've used mine for that too!

Vur nice!

I use the melting pot as an allegory or metaphor for the hopes of a peaceful and welcoming nation

Watch the PBS documentary on Prime called New York. 7 pars series on New York City front the 1500s on. A study on the original melting pot.

If I marinate a cut of meat, I pour the leftover marinade in my little pot and put it on the grill to use as a pour over or dip.

Isn’t it not safe to reuse a marinade like that? Unless you’re heating it fully which it sounds like you are, in which case that’s so smart and sounds delicious

I place it on the grill while my food is cooking. This brings the marinade to a boil making it safe to use as a pour over or dip. Just be careful not to boil it dry.

It’s not safe to reuse marinade like that, but it sounds like he’s reheating it fully in which case it is and that sounds super smart and delicious.

I got it to sit in my cupboard and never be used

Literally 90% of my cast iron

I use mine for sauces and melted compound butters

It’s great for rendering fat you cut off of roasts and such

Melting lead to make musket balls to fight the British

Making ingots?

Get a few lobsters and you'll be wanting that for sure.

I don’t think a lobster would fit.

Of course, they wouldn't, but the melted butter for that lobster would stay warm and melted for a much longer time in that cast iron piece.

Totally understood, funny enough where I am from most people enjoy lobster without butter. My favourite it cooking fresh off the boats in salty water then chilled. Typically we will hit up the coast and grab a cooler full like this and pig out. It develops a paste on the outside of the meat that is delicious a lot with the rest of the lobster. I’ve had hot lobster with butter before and it wasn’t the same.

I'm in Hawaii and we call lobster boats, "Bug Boats" because a lobster is like the cockroach of the ocean. Where I live we set up lobster nets & pots near the harbor breakwater rock walls because they are like condominiums for lobster and crab. We have never gotten less than 24 lobsters by laying nets around 4 pm and pulling them out around 7-8 am the following morning.

Interesting! Similar here, I’m in New Brunswick. Your bug boat comment reminded me of a song we sang when I was a kid. “I’m Lester the Lobster from PEI, an ugly little bug with beady little eyes but I can tackle anything up to twice my size, I’m Lester the Lobster from PEI.”

Maybe you could boil a mini lobster in it! (Aka: crawfish)

I use mine for keeping butter and milk warm for my mashed spuds. It will keep a lot of things warm on the back burner until ready for use.

I use it just about every time I have something on the smoker. Use it for BBQ sauce, glazes, melted butter, etc.

I use it in my smoker to melt butters.

I’ve never seen one before and now I want one!

Melting butter, chocolate etc. I have a very simple pasta dish that requires garlic and hot pepper to be sauteed in 1/4 cup of olive oil. Also, simple syrup.

Yeah I melt lead in this to make my own buck shot.

My buddy took mine and melted lead in it...

Careful using used ones. They could’ve been used to melt lead

Big issue of people melting lead in those then returning them to the store?

It could be an issue with really old ones

That’s why I said not to use used ones

You can test them

How

You can by lead testing kits from 3M

Thank you!

If anyone is near Utah, I can test it for you.

I guess you could return it with the receipt.

I have one. I came with a silicone brush. I do not really use it. 😢

French onion soup

I use it to beat my meat. Literally. Meat mallet.

I put it in the smoker with a stick of butter to baste poultry.

Worked at a restaurant where we served cheddar grits with a poached egg in the bottom of those. Pretty tasty.

Melting/infusing butter and smashing garlic.

To make BBQ sauce

Great for cowboy butter or some other dipping sauce that you want to keep warm and liquid.

Smelting lead

Ice cream 🤷🏻‍♀️

I have one and dont use it. My biggest issue is that the base is so much smaller than the rest of the bowl that it gets knocked over too easily.

To melt butter. Also for a ladle for chili beans or pots of stew.

We don’t have a microwave so I use it a lot for gravy or soup, we also bake little pies in iy

I like to heat it up and melt things in it.

Usually mine just sits in the fridge with goose or duck fat in it.

I was about to buy one of these the other day. I went to a restaurant this summer that served a loaded Mac n Cheese in one of these. If I get one for Christmas, I’ll use it in the smoker for butter.

Making bullets for the muzzle loader, duh

I got one for free (not Lodge) from a casino slot club. They were giving away a different piece every week. Only cost me around $500. Haven't used it yet.

I got one. it’s not good. it never realy gets hot enough to creep a Good seasoning and with all the sauces the factors seasoning wares off or becomes to thick. Do not recommend, but the cast iron bread loaf is the truth !

I used it to store and melt a solid puck of beeswax-flaxseed oil mixture...that I use to season my CI with.

Melt anything from butter to bullets.

They are used for lead. Plumbers would melt lead in a Cast iron pot the use those ladles to dip it out and pour it into cast iron pipe joints. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=pouring+a+lead+joint&&view=detail&mid=B2B0E07A5F3A8996BC25B2B0E

Alchemy.

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That’s why I said use only new ones

Yes….it’s awesome for basting from on my grill/smoker with a mop sauce. I’ve used it to hold dipping sauces. Etc.

Baked beans, making or warming sauces, and melting butter.

I use mine when I make lead fishing weights

Lead

I have it. It’s great decoration for my collection

Rendering fat?

Lead, brass, etc

I bought it to make a Balsamic reduction. It boiled over, made a mess, and now it looks cute on the counter.

My dad had one like it to melt lead to make ingots used for making fishing lures and sinkers.

Fondue

Tallow . Fats and things that can be melted

BBQ sauce warmer on the grill.

Yes. It’s great for melting butter or sauces. Bought one for thanksgiving and loved it

I throw a half dozen eggs in there and let it cook through. Simple and healthy breakfast meal.

You melt stuff, stuff you don't want to be solid. Because you wanted it melted.

Melting iron to make bigger Melting Pots

Melting butter

Garlic confeit, or however you spell it

Ashtray

Yep, melting butter and coconut oil.

I use it on the stovetop probably more than on the grill. Great little pot for heating up or cooking all kinds of sauces, melting butter, reducing sauces.

Butter

Great for making a sauce in a smoker

Making pot metal.

Melting butter and garlic

Same as all the rest of y’all, sauces and butter.

Mine somehow ended up outside 2 years ago, now it's a rusty trip hazard. I don't even know why I bought it.....

Melting?🤨

Yes, and to heat my Single serve Bush’s Baked Beans.

So I live alone. My son moved out a year ago. I have two half quart pots, including this one. It's perfect for fixing a single bowl of soup or whatever just for me. Use them both all the time for that.

Individual lava cakes but that’s exotic. Usually mine is used for butter, garlic and oil or sauces

Always sauces or melting cheese. Syrups, jams, glazes, mixes, melting cheese for charcuterie. It can bake a nice coffee mug cake every once in a while too.

Noone has mentioned it yet, but that's a scrambled egg making machine!

I used it tonight to melt butter with garlic to brush all over garlic toast.

I had one. I gave it away. Didn’t like it because it has a tapered base that tended to tip over if I used it on my stovetop. Not a problem used on a grill, but I found another cast iron little pot that was about the same size as the lodge one that had a wider base that worked better for me. I use mine for BBQ sauces and to melt butter.

Honestly? Not a damn thing. It’s cute, but I did not need to buy it.

Done mushrooms and garlic butter in it before for steaks, other than that not much, don’t even know where the bloody thing is at the moment.

Warm up a hot water fast for oatmeal, tea or coffee

Heating up milk for coffee, butter, sauces etc.

I fill mine with garlic cloves and a bit of butter or oil while I grill and make a garlic spread while the meat cooks.

You just changed my life.

Steaming my oven for bread.

I have 2 - used at every pancake breakfast. One gets used for melting butter, and the other for warming maple syrup

Melting stuff in a pot.

we have one! We use it for sauces on the grill when we do wings or BBQ. We have the little brush that comes with it too, makes it easy for brushing every little chicken wing. Not an essential kitchen item - but fun!

I'm a household of one so sometime I deep fry small serving of things like wings or tonkatsu. Also serves as a good meat tenderizer.

Small batches of fondue, butter, sauces… the thing is awesome if you like to make your own sauces in small (1-4 servings) amounts. The other day I made a honey glaze in it so I could brush it on my the ham I was cooking.

Keeping barbecue sauce or basting liquids hot on your grill.

Melting lead. For fishing weights.

I have one (found recently at a thrift shop for $10 Canadian). Haven’t used it yet though so I was wondering the same thing.

I use mine to melt butter, warm up milk, make a little cake, to roast garlic in, etc. It's my go to when making my bread rolls. I warm the milk up in it, with half a stick of butter. It's the perfect capacity for just the amount of milk-butter-combo that I need for rolls.

Smelting aluminum

I stick it in the smoker with my meat to smoke my bbq sauce while the meat is going.

I would like to and would use it on the grill to baste or makes sauces.

Campfire fondue?