Cracked CI, what do you do?

Hey All:
I hope all is well!!

I guess that I could say that I've been lucky up to now as this is the first time this has happened to me; but just this weekend I pulled a piece of CI that I have been soaking and under all of that crud and rust- you guessed it- a hairline crack; which made me think what do I do with this now?

Thinking of just hanging it in my garage for posterity- but wanted to see what others do when they find a crack or other major damage in their iron,

:covri:

Thanks,
-J

I either hang to look at ... if it's rare enough or pretty enough, or I sell as is for whatever I can get ... which is generally quite a bit less than I paid.

First I cry.... Then I have a couple beers.

The cracked ones go in an ever growing stack of cracked ones. Once a year I bring them out, lay them out in a circle around myself as I sit in the middle Indian style, naked. I light some sage, and I pray to the CI gods that it was all a just a dream. I open my eyes and look around and I still spy with my little eye, CrAcKs!!!! Arrrrgh!!!! :redface:

Could probably still bake in it. Have also seen cracked skillets made into clocks.

Probably in the minority, but if the crack is hairline and just in the sidewall between 10 and 2 opposite the handle I just season up and use. My campfire skillet has a crack in it. No big deal. Wouldn't pan fry in it, but I pan fry like once a year and prefer a Dutch oven for it anyway.