Before church on Sunday we started two crock pots and a dutch oven with pork shoulder to make a meal for a family that just welcomed baby number 10! Praise the LORD!
I’ve done this before.
I made a mistake this time. Somehow. Still not sure how. Didn’t notice the problem at noon when we got home. Turned the oven off and left it to stay warm.
When I got home from play rehearsal at 3:00PM I noticed. Boy, did I notice.
Even the bone was charred.
This is my beautiful Dutch oven my mom gave me for Christmas last year.
It took a lot of tools to extricate the meal.
Since it cooks in root beer, sugar, and vinegar, it created a very, very burnt substance all the way around that I had to scrape out with an ice cream scoop. The consistency was like the burnt part of a marshmallow that catches on fire when you roast too close to the flame.
Johanna wanted to help me by asking for her favorite toys – measuring cups.
This is what I got at the bottom of the pan.
The meat didn’t make it. I suppose we could have tried to eat it. But I wasn’t about to serve it to anyone. And really, I could never have gotten past the visual in photo one.
I will finish this post by sharing that it is clean. Thank You, God. I love this pan.
I followed this set of suggestions on ehow.com. It came clean today. Step two worked!
I can’t help but wonder what the piano teacher thought I was feeding my family by the smell of it! LOL.
And not a moment too soon. Beef stew for dinner tomorrow! 
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I put a ham bone in a dutch oven of water one day and turned it down low. We went out to buy some apples and do a few errands and when we returned I could hear the smoke alarm sounding inside the house. Naughty girl that I was, I went inside to investigate, found the house full of “not to chokey” smoke. The obvious culprit was the dutch oven which I took outside and set on the front stoop. When the pot was safely outside, I removed the cover, and POOF! it burst into flames. (I never figured out why other times I could simmer a ham bone for hours, and the one time I went out, it filled my house with smoke.)
I put a ham bone in a dutch oven of water one day and turned it down low. We went out to buy some apples and do a few errands and when we returned I could hear the smoke alarm sounding inside the house. Naughty girl that I was, I went inside to investigate, found the house full of “not to chokey” smoke. The obvious culprit was the dutch oven which I took outside and set on the front stoop. When the pot was safely outside, I removed the cover, and POOF! it burst into flames. (I never figured out why other times I could simmer a ham bone for hours, and the one time I went out, it filled my house with smoke.)