This is my first attempt at making a cooking pot. This is made from 3/16" steel pipe with 1/4" round twisted and squared, wrapped around the outside (the matching ladle has a stainless steel bowl). The outside patina is beeswax, turpentine, and linseed oil baked on in my smoke cooker at 475 degrees F for several hours. Gave it a very nice, hard black patina. The inside I seasoned with Crisco in my electric oven at 350 degrees F for 4 hours. The only problem is that it is a bit heaver than I anticipated. It weighs about 495 lbs and you need a skid loader to get it in and out of the oven. I'm thinking of starting a new line of cookware called "Workout Ware". I gave it to a friend for his 60th with a bread pudding. Cooks great and the pudding was a hit.