If you find yourself in a real SHTF situation, or even if you’re just doing a week of trekking for fun, one thing is guaranteed: you’re going to be needing to sort out a lot of food.

You will be surviving or food that you’ve had the foresight to store away in advance as well as food that you’ll be hunting or gathering from your area.

[cmamad id=”3117″ align=”center” tabid=”display-desktop” mobid=”3104″ stg=””]Some food can be eaten raw, and this certainly guarantees that you’ll be extracting all of it’s nutrient value. But some foods simply cannot be used raw, and oftentimes we simply don’t want to (think caterpillars for example!). In these situations we’re going to have to be able to cook our food somehow, and one of the best type of tools for this are the good-old fashioned cast iron pots and pans that grandma used to use.

Cast iron cookware is fantastic to use, but these days is hard to find new – and often very expensive when you can. So, second hand can be the way to go. The problem is though that second hand cast iron cookware is often in bad condition.

So learn how to bring it back from the dead with the handy tutorial over the Next Page: