Backyard dutch oven cookin'.

[Wyatt Burp]

I do most of my cooking on the patio, rain or shine. My wife just tried our dutch oven again cooking chicken and vegetables. Ideas are endless what to try next. Here it is with the coal laden lid off about done. My grill is one of those heavy park type grills that crank up or down on top of cement blocks. Who wants to be inside with weather like this.

 

[Abbynormal]

8 charcoal briquettes on top and 12 on the bottom = 400 degrees F

 

[jlrhiner]

I was at Woodbadge in the early 90's and made a gooey butter cake for the morning clutch. I didn't have to clean it........

 

[finesse_r]

This certainly beats that bacon thread.

 

[mtgianni]

8 charcoal briquettes on top and 12 on the bottom = 400 degrees F

The rule I have lived by for the last 30+ years is the oven diameter + 3 on top -3 on the bottom =350 F. For a 12"oven that is 15 on top and 9 on the bottom. Might be altitude in the Rocky's but 400 F seems a little too warm IME.

 

[Grayfox]

With a Dutch Oven, anything that you can cook at home can be cooked outdoors on an open fire. Yum Yum!

 

[two-bit cowboy]

I've eaten some great meals out of Dutch ovens, but the most unusual thing I fixed was ice cream. All those great principles that work for heat also work with cold.

Put a small Dutch oven inside a great big one. Fill the big one with ice and rock salt. Put your favorite ice cream recipe in the small one. Cover both. Stir the ice cream mix about every 20 minutes and add ice and salt as needed. Takes about five hours.

 

[Salty RI]

This certainly beats that bacon thread.

Come on now, nothing beats bacon.

 

[Wyatt Burp]

Come on now, nothing beats bacon.

When we went camping last time I forgot our ancient 3 burner Coleman stove (converted to propane) so we just used this giant frying pan for everything and it worked great.

 

[dave b]

So what time should we come over?

 

[Iggy]

Back in the Ronyvoo days, the first morning, I would dig a hole and put charcoal briquettes in the bottom and git'm cooking. Itchy would put the dutch oven in there and pull out some of those briquettes put them on the lid. We'd cover that up with dirt and go do our thing. By supper time, all we had to do was uncover it and chow down.

She would even brew up and cook apple cobblers and goodies in the dutch ovens when we was out tipi creepin.

Them was shinin' times.

 

[dave holl]

The rule I have lived by for the last 30+ years is the oven diameter + 3 on top -3 on the bottom =350 F. For a 12"oven that is 15 on top and 9 on the bottom. Might be altitude in the Rocky's but 400 F seems a little too warm IME.

Some time ago I discovered this cast iron cooking website from Australia. They call charcoal briquets "heat beads" down there.

The site is user friendly and has a wealth of cast iron cooking info, recipes, and general information about the land down under.

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Thank you

Dave

 

[Salty RI]

When we went camping last time I forgot our ancient 3 burner Coleman stove (converted to propane) so we just used this giant frying pan for everything and it worked great.

What more do you need.

 

[S&W ucla]

Mmmmmmmmmmm......I'm Hungry!!!!!!!