ovens and clogs?

[mzsmbs]

anyone here has much experience with dutch oven cooking? got one for my b-day and would like to learn more about it. recipes welcome!

thanks.

[crash9]

Because of the way it holds heat, cast iron is great for roasting and my “Greens come out best in a dutch oven. Season it as per the instructions, but it really needs a lot of use to get good.
Greens – fry up some bacon then wash your greens and just lightly shake off the water.Break off the ends wkerever they just naturally snap. Put em in the hot pot wet and stir until they wilt. Eat drenched in hot sauce.
Meats as in pork/beef roast or chicken. I like olive oil. Just start the meat at 500deg. for thirty minutes and then turn it down to 325 and forget it for a few hours. Just comes out better in iron.

[MTI]

Cast iron is the "diesels" of cookware.

[CSchmidt]

My brother-in-law is an avid camper. He uses a dutch oven all the time. His formula for heat is to use charcoal, and to count each for 25*. He puts 2/3 on the bottom of the dutch oven and 1/3 on the top. So if you want to cook at 300*, use 12 bricks, 8 on the bottom and 4 on the top.

His recipe for a quick camping dessert he calls dump cake is:

1 instant cake mix
1 squirt or 2 or 3 of liquid butter
1 can fruit pie filling - cherry, apple, whatever

Mix and put on the charcoal. It usually takes 20-30 minutes.

Chuck

[Botnst]

Ever used it as dryer?

B

[Botnst]

Originally Posted by w126

Isn't a Dutch oven when you fart in bed and hold the sheets over your wife to let her enjoy the warmth and aroma?

No, that's a homicide. At least in Mrs Bot's domain.

[mzsmbs]

Originally Posted by w126

Isn't a Dutch oven when you fart in bed and hold the sheets over your wife to let her enjoy the warmth and aroma?

oh, that's terrible... hahahaha

[mzsmbs]

Originally Posted by CSchmidt

My brother-in-law is an avid camper. He uses a dutch oven all the time. His formula for heat is to use charcoal, and to count each for 25*. He puts 2/3 on the bottom of the dutch oven and 1/3 on the top. So if you want to cook at 300*, use 12 bricks, 8 on the bottom and 4 on the top.

His recipe for a quick camping dessert he calls dump cake is:

1 instant cake mix
1 squirt or 2 or 3 of liquid butter
1 can fruit pie filling - cherry, apple, whatever

Mix and put on the charcoal. It usually takes 20-30 minutes.

Chuck

i get all kinds of different info on this. i read somewhere that each brickette is like 40degrees.. hmm.. i've also read that one should put 8 on the bottom and 12 on top.. hmm.. i will have to experiment.

this upcoming weekend i am going camping so we'll give it a try then. thanks for the recipies.. keep'em coming.

Bot, dryer?

[kerry]

I've won a couple of dutch oven cookoffs, mostly for baking. I concur that you should put more coals on top than on the bottom. Cobblers are great in dutch ovens because the fruit on the bottom stops the crust from burning.
I regularly bake cakes in dutch ovens. The one I won with was a standard boxed chocolate cake with strawberry pie filling put in the bottom of the oven. By the time the cake is baked the strawberries have migrated throughout and a can of whipped cream draws in the final unbelievers.
My most cherished cooking award was for dutch oven baked beans which won the 'Best Vegetarian Dish' category. I can only attribute it to the mental weakness of vegetarians because they were filled with pork, bacon and sausage.