Dutch Oven, anyone else

GaryWT · 03-27-2013, 07:21 AM

We have been using a dutch oven to do some cooking, especially on trips with no actual plans. We will do anything from brownies and apple crisp to chicken or roasts. Anyone else use one, would like to hear what others are cooking in them.

davidcyndi · 03-27-2013, 08:04 AM

I have read a bunch of reviews and what to get and how to do it. Really like the +3 -3 method(12 inch dutch oven, 12(inches)x2 = 24 coals top and bottom but +3 on top and -3 on bottom so 27 coals on top and 21 coals on bottom) sorry if that was confusing. Can not wait until 4/5 as that is our next trip and that is when we get to try out the dutch over we bought. As for recipes this guy has a ton and is where I got 2 recipes that we plan to do first. First is the pineapple upside down cake and of course chili.
http://www.webring.org/l/rd?ring=rec...Drecipes%2Ehtm

GaryWT · 03-27-2013, 08:31 AM

I was taught 30-40 degrees per coal, top and bottom with more on top than below. We generall go 10-12 on the bottom and 12-14 on top. If you have the temp too high, you burn the outside and don't cook the inside. Later in the cook process we add additional coals some times, that is if we hit 2 hours and the chicken is not done yet.

RikChar · 03-27-2013, 05:19 PM

We have 2 dutch ovens that we use, one for the main dish and the second for the best part "blueberry cobbler". I get a lot of our recipes from Byron's dutch oven recipes where they give you the charcoal ratio top to bottom count. A great dish is the coke a cola chicken recipe over white rice. We use the smaller boneless chicken breast which takes about an hour to cook

tdawg · 03-27-2013, 05:59 PM

Thats all i cook with outside over the fire. I have 3 12" 1 10" dutch ovens skillets, griddles and the best waffles out of a griswold waffle iron I think i haul 200lbs of cast iron around on short trips longer trips take the minimum.

tdawg · 03-28-2013, 03:29 AM

Prime Rib packed in softner salt is the best in the dutch oven.

**JRTJH** · 03-28-2013, 05:12 AM

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Originally Posted by tdawg

Prime Rib packed in softner salt is the best in the dutch oven.

OK, now you've gone and done it. Either invite the forum over for prime rib, or post the recipe.....

Ron · 03-28-2013, 05:30 AM

Did someone say Prime Rib, we will be right over. We love our Dutch Ovens, carry 2 10" and 1 8" with us everywhere we go, and of course all the accessories that go along with the whole gig. Happy Campin

Jim W · 03-28-2013, 06:30 AM

We even use the dutch oven in the gas stove or on the gas burner to cook some dinners in during the winter months when we are not camping. I grow up with my mom using one all the time and when I was a Boy Scout/Explore we used them too.

In scouts we use to make beef stew in the dutch oven and then cleaned it out and turn around and made a cherry cobbler in the same oven. In my Boy Scout unit it was each patrol or Explore post that was responsible for their cooking utensils or meal preparations. So as Boy Scout/Explores we only had one dutch oven at a time to use and we used it for everything to be cooked in. This made some very interesting main dishes to eat sometimes.
Jim W.

GaryWT · 03-28-2013, 08:07 AM

We use them in scouts all the time as well. We have 4 of them so the patrols mix and match their meals as needed to make them available to them. The scouts use them for cinn. rolls, pizza, stew and various other things.

tdawg · 03-28-2013, 11:13 AM

Use the small flake or crystal salt not pellets. put 1 inch in bottom of dutch oven then i season my prime rib with coarse black pepper put in 12inch deep dutch oven then completely cover with salt to the top cook to taste i like mine more on red side. about 150 degrees internal pull off, wrap in foil for 30 min.

GaryWT · 03-28-2013, 11:51 AM

That does sound good, might have to look into that at some point.

a1albert · 03-29-2013, 07:33 PM

My son cooks with a dutch oven at Elk camp. He makes stews, pork chops and other good things. My son does the cookin and I do the dishes and I am ok with that.

Albert

Ruffus · 03-30-2013, 02:57 AM

We started using Dutch Ovens years ago while motorcycle camping around the country with the IBMC (International Brotherhood of Motorcycle Campers). One of our members always made a Peach Cobbler that everyone craved and you were honored if he asked you to share it with him and his family, I always prvided the Cool Whip so i always got invited. My kids bought me a Dutch oven cook book and we travel with a 12 inch cast iron and a 12 inch aluminum oven. Best Potato soup I ever made is done in my dutch oven and I don't like potato soup. Fun camping and cooking.

Badboy · 03-30-2013, 05:22 AM

Use mine to make chile,sausage gravy,use cast iron to do all my cooking outside over the wood fire when we go out,cook every thing over the fire,monkey bread in the dutch oven is the bomb

Momedic · 03-31-2013, 06:13 AM

Ruffus. Can I get the recipe.. I love good potato soup

LeeMedic · 03-31-2013, 07:01 AM

I also love to cook Dutch oven style.

Here is a GREAT website with some outstanding recipes.

http://www.webring.org/l/rd?ring=dut...7Epapadutch%2F

SLIMSHADIE · 04-05-2013, 08:07 PM

I mostly cook cobblers in them, usually half and half, to please everybody. Usually half cherry and half peach or what ever pie filling we have. We experiment a little bit. I've never used charcoal, just the wood coals. Its never a problem since their is a fire going and there is plenty of wood coals. I made a mountainn man breakfast once, turned out good but took forever. Wake up, hungry, start a fire, hungry, wait for coals,hungry, cooking breakfast, hungry, eating breakfast at lunch time.

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