Cauldron
So, I just got a brand new cast iron cauldron. I feel like making brews, teas, balms, salves, and anything I don't want to ruin a cooking pot for if I mess up.
Here's my question. In the herbalist books I have read, they say to always avoid mixing in metals (mostly by contact with the metal by the hot liquid). So I am worried about using it/breaking it in. I don't know what "contaminants" are within in. Now I've looked up all sorts of regularly used tools for teas and such. Metal strainers are most common, and most tea spoons are silver.
So if you are in my position, do you go ahead and use the cauldron because it's an old common tool. Or shall I make it into my huge candle cauldron, and get a ceramic (big) teapot?
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