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Now folks, in this video I want to show you how to maintain Obertha
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For her to keep her shine, for her to keep her looking all nice. Really got that seasoning to that metal
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It'll last you a lifetime and then two more. This is made of Corton steel
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Ooh, that's so important it is. Now everything has a chance to rust, especially in our country if you're cooking every day
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But folks, this will not pit. It won't have them big deep holes as you see in a lot of that old metal that's rusted and just covered up with corrosion and then makes holes in it
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Now it may rust a little but if you keep it old and you keep it cleaned all the time
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You're gonna get that patina shine to it. That's sort of blotchy in color
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And oh it looks so pretty now it's gonna come to you nearly solid black and shiny
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Just like that metal is when it comes off that assembly line, but folks you gotta take care of it. You gotta oil it
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Now, say you was out with your friends and it come up a cloud, y'all all went to sleep
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and it got like seven inches of rain on top, and whew, you hadn't oiled it
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And it's got a little rust that's coming on. Get you one of them flapper brushes on a grinder, it'll get that off
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and it'll keep all this good and shiny right there. And then we're going to go back, get it hot, and oil it
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So when we get ready to come up here and do a video when Old Bertha's sitting here
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and I go ahead and get me a fire started in here, I just what? Break out the rag, break out the
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vegetable oil, whatever kind of oil you got, give it a good rubbing down everywhere we go. But then
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as it gets hot, you'll see that sort of smoke just a little and it'll go to seal over. But right at
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the end of it, when I'm through shooting that video and I still got all that heat in there, I'm going to make sure it's clean and I'm going to go back and oil it again. Trays, outside
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anywhere you can put some oil, you're just going to help it. Now when I'm talking any type of oil
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I not talking Pennzoil Tropartic any of them things like that I talking like a cheap vegetable oil olive oil avocado oil whatever you got peanut oil just make sure you get it old Now say you had a whole bunch of them
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steaks on here, 32 or 400, whichever the count may be, and you got plumbed through. Folks, it's just
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like cleaning cast iron. It's best to clean them grill gates, grill gates. It is best to clean them
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grill grates as soon as you get finished because that fire is hot. Go ahead and get that wire
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brush in there. Give it a good brushing. And then I want you to take a hook. If you can, you got one
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I know you do. And let's turn it over. That way we can get to that bottom side. Clean it again. And the
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thing I like to put back on mine is just that vegetable spray that comes in a can. Just go back
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through there and oil it really good. Let that fire dry it out and cure it out. You're good to go
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All right. Say you're at a place cooking and you need to get them coals out of there. You need it
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to cool off, open them doors, go ahead and get them coals plum out, open both of them
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take the top off of it, it'll begin to cool down even quicker
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Now, I don't want to see you go over there and get a bucket of water, open the door
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and throw in there, because hot as that metal is, and cold water to it, it just ain't good
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for it, and it always is going to cause you some rust in the bottom
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When you get through with this and it is cooled off, and say you're not under a shed or not
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under a tent, hey, I take me a tarp from I got from Walmart and it just bungee corges around there
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and just stays, keeps that moisture off of it. But make sure that rascal is cool before you get it on
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there. We thank y'all and we hope you enjoyed this Bertha 101 because it is a great piece of
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equipment. It is. And if you take care of it like we told you to, this thing won't just last a
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lifetime. It'll be passed down from generation to generation to generation. A very unique and a great
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cooking tool for cowboys or anybody else that wants to cook and bring folks together
