Woman stunned to find ‘practically perfect’ $400 kitchen item in Pottery Barn dumpster
The queen of dumpster diving has revamped a ‘practically perfect’ kitchen item after finding it in the bin behind a pottery shed.
Tiffany Butler recently found one Le Creuset Signature enameled cast iron round casserole while filming dumpster diving video.
The peche stained kitchen item from Williams Sonoma had a small scratch on the lid and ink was scrawled all over the inside of the frying pan and lid.
“These cost about $400…They’re super expensive, and I love pink and gold,” Butler said.
The peche casserole is only available in two of the six sizes that Williams Sonoma offers for the product, and is priced between $420 and $460.
Tiffany Butler found a Le Creuset Signature Enamel Cast Iron Round Casserole while dumpster diving behind Pottery Barn
The found peche-colored Dutch oven Butler is available for purchase at Williams Sonoma, priced from $420 to $460
Butler noticed the Dutch oven in the product box, which was in solid condition.
Also included was a small recipe book that showed little to no damage.
The professional dumpster diver previously planned to use acetone for the markings, which she said would be “super easy to remove” during her Oct. 1 video.
In the end, all she had to do was put rubbing alcohol on the marked area and scrub the stains away.
The frying pan looked “super cute” and good as new by the time Butler finished the renovation.
She couldn’t remove the marks on the side of the box, but Butler thinks someone will buy the oven because of its near-perfect condition.
The highly rated product is available in 18 other colors and the smaller size starts at $260.
Butler claimed the marks would be “super easy to remove,” and scrubbed it away with rubbing alcohol
Butler has been a successful dumpster diver in Texas for almost a decade.
The content creator started her money-making technique after seeing a dumpster diving video where girls got brand new makeup from Ulta, according to her website.
She completed her first dumpster dive at Ulta shortly after, scoring about $1,500 worth of makeup.
The mother of four now considers dumpster diving her full-time job and makes money by selling her finds.
“I started with garage sales and then Facebook marketplace,” she wrote on her website.
“Then I discovered third-party resale sites, so I started doing that until I eventually created my own website.”
Although the Williams Sonoma product was a great find, Butler considers her coolest diving treasure to be the vertebrae of a whale.
Several TikTok users have insisted that the Dutch oven was a “great find” and that they were lucky to find an expensive product.
Butler has been dumpster diving in Texas for almost a decade and considers it her full-time job
Some TikTokers questioned the “doodles all over the jar,” and some commenters assumed it was originally designed that way.
Some retailers mark irregular products to prevent them from being resold, although it is unclear whether Williams Sonoma did that with their Le Creuset casserole.
One person wrote: ‘And here I thought the swirls were on purpose and cute!.’
Several commenters also left advice on what else Butler could have done to clean the frying pan, and that acetone is not a good option.
“It’s enamel cookware, all it needs is a liquid bartender friend and that market will be wiped out without any harmful chemicals,” one commenter wrote.
Other TikTokers claimed that toothpaste, soda powder with dish soap and hairspray would have also removed the marks.