I'm baking my boots in the oven right now. Just thought i'd share that.
I can think of a couple reasons to have boots in an oven, and neither sound good. Are they leather boots? Do you have oil to put on them?
Monte, post: 390882, member: 11913 wrote: Do you have oil to put on them?
No, spread with butter, dust with a little nutmeg and put them in to roast - YUM
Isn't nutmeg one of them things they put on Christmas treats?
Monte, post: 390909, member: 11913 wrote: Isn't nutmeg one of them things they put on Christmas treats?
And roast vegetables
Went deer hunting one year and it came a sloppy slushy snow. You'd think a surveyor would know better, but instead of wearing my good lace-up Red Wings I wore an old comfortable pair of Wellingtons with "mud grip" soles. They got soaked.
The next morning everyone went out before sun-up to try to murder Bambi and I stayed in the camper because my boots were still wet and cold. Someone had left a skillet full of bacon grease on the stove. I rubbed down my boots with the grease and set them on the little oven (which also doubled as the only heater) door. They dried out but sure smelled like bacon for the rest of their life.
We all joked about the wolves following me in the woods thinking they had found a 200 pound slab of hickory smoked bacon....
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire...
[SARCASM]"sounds like something smelly going on"[/SARCASM]
R.J. Schneider, post: 390878, member: 409 wrote: I'm baking my boots in the oven right now.
I've done that to warm them in order to get the snoseal to melt in. But not usually in September. Seems a little early in the season for snoseal'ing.
If you are doing it to dry them, and they are leather, it won't end well.
"They" say: "Don't do anything to leather that you wouldn't do to your own skin".
Bad practice to cook leather (assuming your boots are leather).
Best stuff in the world for your leather footwear is http://www.obenaufs.com/
After searching for 40+ years I have discovered their products and all others are now obsoleted.
SHG
The El cheapo boots the army used to issue were horrible. I spent 6 years figuring out how to make them look good and last. Keeping the leather hydrated with oil and sealed with wax or something similar is a must. I've only thrown away one pair of boots due to leather problems in the last 35 years. An unnamed family member set them out in the rain and they dried like jerkey.
Just whining about wet boots, that, by the way, must have shrank a size when I took them out.
Everyone needs a good pair of knee high rubber boots in their truck...........
Try harness oil.
Good source is a saddlery.
I use it on my Red Wings with success.
Cheers,
Derek
Red Wing Natural Shoe Oil
or
Huberd's Shoe Grease
Occasionally my wife takes something out of the oven that tastes like I'm chewing on my boots! (Sorry honey)
North-Horizon, post: 391591, member: 11551 wrote: Occasionally my wife takes something out of the oven that tastes like I'm chewing on my boots! (Sorry honey)
Unless you have chewed on your boots, this must be speculation?
SHG
