Smoking chili and grilling honey/garlic/butter glazed carrots on the restored cast iron fryer I found on tHe side of the road the day before.

After an hour or so of scrubbing and rinsing and scrubbing and rinsing and a couple of rounds of re-seasoning the roadside find cast iron fryer it went from this:

TO THIS

I was eager to put it to use so I took a bunch of ingredients from our Marshview Farm CSA Share and went to work-

First used this to brown the beef for the chili then used it after to grill the carrots.

Next chili with the fryer part: