Anyone bury their pots to enhance patina?

[ShadyStump]

As another demonstration of my somewhat unique ability to recall the most random things from unreasonably distant times, and then obsessively backtrack to it; have you thought about smoking your pots to add patina?

Struck me while smoking a pork butt and a crock of beans yesterday.
Today I had to catch up those dishes.

I scrub my crock clean after such usage (because I'll be using it for other food again) but I imagine that leaving the soot and oils to set for a summer month, and repeating the ordeal many times over, after a year or several of routinely performing such abuse it would become semipermanent.
Just a thought.

 

[Paradox]

Struck me while smoking a pork butt and a crock of beans yesterday.

Lol. This is an aside.
I made a baked ham and beans in my electric crock pot yesterday.

As far as patina on pots. Thought sometimes people purposely keep them outside so they get patina over time.

 

[ShadyStump]

Maybe. I'm no potter so I'm not certain how that would actually work if they're not being handled, and whatever effect would be very climate dependent.