What would you do: dutch oven from house fire with mysterious stains

MatthewM

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I was given a nice dutch oven (4.5 qt but made in taiwan so I doubt its worth much) that was pulled from the ashes of a house fire. It has some mysterious stains on it. Lots of white stains on the inside, lots of green on the outside, with the white splattered onto the green etc. Overall a little bit messy. I've had it in an electrolysis tank for about 10 or so hours and they haven't come off (not surprised, just disappointed).
I was wondering if you guys would go through other methods like a lye bath and high heat or just dump it/find some other use for it for risk of toxic chemicals from the fire.

EDIT:
I should add: the green is only on the outside. It's kind of the color of one of those military tent. The white is on the inside and seems to have splattered onto the outside. I can add pics if it would help.
 
Photos will help to determine if it's something on the pan or something the fire did to the pan. One each of the entire top and entire bottom, as close-ups are usually not helpful.
 
I guess the green look was more prominent when it was wet. What's odd to me is that the outside looks like it had some sort of coating or something on it at some point.
 
If it's green on only one side and a different color on the the inside than it sounds like some kind of paint. If paint it might be because someone wanted to turn it into a clock but changed their mind. At any rate some oil base paints are really hard to remove, almost atom bomb proof. Maybe you could try some paint remover from your local hardware store and see what that does.
 
I keep having that issue with the pictures. I'll try a different way of posting the pics.
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I highly doubt anyone was going to try to turn this into a clock. Although I would applaud them if they did.
 
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