Anyone do Dutch Oven cooking?

[MBLayfield]

When we dutch oven we almost always do it this way....

Dig a hole and start your coals.......

Add to your dutch oven sliced potatoes, we do 7 or 8. A can of mushroom pieces, a pound of bacon slices cut into 3 or 4 inch strips, 5 or 6 chicken breasts, seasonings to taste, and a cube of butter. Stir it up.

Once your coals are ready, pull 4 or five out with tongs. Lower in the dutch oven and put the coals you pulled out on top of the lid.

Walk away for about an hour, come back check it, stir it, add more coals to the top of the lid if needed. I only check it once during cooking.

Right before serving cover with some cheese, let sit with the lid on for a few minutes and let it melt.

This is awesome, you gotta try it. The tatos end up soft and the meat is very tender and juicy. The bacon and cheese make it wonderful!!!

 

[Forest_Nymph]

I've baked cakes, biscuits and pies in my dutch oven...

By using old silverware for a rack, I can then set a pie plate or cooking pan on top if them and and create good heat circulation around the pan while its baking. Time is usually a judgment call without a temp gauge. You should resist opening the cover too often because you'll lose the heat that was built up...
It's fun to do while camping!

 

[WriterofWords]

Prepare for your dad being hooked and wanting to go even further. I enter dutch-oven cookoffs, I teach the use of them, I have 8 different sizes I use. If you have specific questions I can possibly help you with either email me or PM me and I'll see if I can help you out.
Kate

 

[CarriBrown]

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It's funny you say that because my friend's dad (we call him "Pops") got my dad into dutch oven cooking. Pops went to Utah to see his daughter, and bought my dad another oven (I bought my dad one for his birthday)! LOL He has 7 or 8 of his own. It's like an obsession.
I'll ask my dad if there is anything specific he wants to know. He's still getting used to it and he's read all the cookbooks that Pops has given him!

 

[WriterofWords]

One of the neatest things I have that I use with my ovens is my portable "fire-ring". I cut the bottom off of a 50 Gall. drum, about 18" in depth. I can take it anywhere, all my ovens fit in it, and if you can't dig a hole for your coals you don't have to worry!
K

 

[skeeter9]

That's a great tip, Writer!! We have a nice sized fire ring/pit in our backyard that we built out of rock. We have an iron frame over it with the hooks, etc to use for dutch-oven cooking. We love it!

I've gotten several recipes from a webiste that's called something like "Byron's Dutch Oven Cooking" or something close to that - he's collected some good ones!!!

Here's one that we tried this weekend:

Mix together in dutch oven:

2 cups long-grain white rice
1 can Cream of Mushroom soup
1 can Cream of Chicken soup
2 cans water
1 cup sour cream
3 or 4 cloves of garlic
1 small onion chopped
1 rib celery chopped
1 Tbsp Worchestershire sauce


Top with 4 chicken breasts seasoned with salt, pepper, and poultry seasoning

Cook with about 10 briquets underneath and 14 on top for about 90 minutes. We use coals from a regular wood fire, so I know that works, too.

Lori

 

[mullers3acers]

Went on a authentic wagon train trip in Wyoming and got hooked on cooking with cast iron. I do about 90% of my cooking with them. I got so hooked went out and bought as many as I could a Dutch oven is my next investment.

 

[Bird Hearder]

I have 2 links for you with some recipies.
http://usscouts.org/cooking/cook_05.asp#14
http://papadutch.home.comcast.net/~papadutch/