The Bean Monster...

[gizamo]

Yep, she is huge... Almost 14 inches across and 8 inches deep. The lid is flared away and meant to have hot embers put on top...after this has been set in a bed of ashes. Meant to be buried for up to 8 hours, dug up. The flared lid is lifted off, and keeps ash and dirt away from the goodness, inside.

Flip the lid upside down, and it is your skillet, ...for BREAKFAST.

Wonder how many farts are in a bucket, this big...?

 

[M&P Freak]

That's a beauty. Eat more beans!

 

[A10]

Nothing cooks like good well seasoned cast iron!

 

[mwtdvm]

Now many in a pot??

The answer is 239 ...... one more and it would be two farty..

 

[brucev]

What a wonderful cast iron dutch oven! I can think of a lot of things to do with such a outstanding piece of cookware. Enjoy!

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

We have a 10" and a 14" of the shallower design with legs. They have been use to bake many wonderful meals. One of the most interesting being deep dish pizza on a cool September evening. Took the 10" on a back packing trip, a very bad idea! That's about 7 pounds of cast iron. Mostly we use the pie irons to make fruit pies, pizzas, and hot peanut butter sandwhiches now days. Fall camping season is right around the corner, maybe I can bribe her into deep dish pizza or something better. Ivan

 

[wbraswell]

Great pot. Most likely the most versitile piece of cookware there is.

 

[OK Hog Shooter]

"Beans, beans, the musical fruit...
The more ya eat, the more ya toot.
The more ya toot the better ya feel...
so eat beans at every meal!"

NOTE: Author unknown, although I suspect he was a third grader.

 

[Marshwheeling]

He was a third grader in about 1953, or before.

 

[Iggy]

Itchy has cooked up some wunnerful meals in one similar to that.

They are great for leavin' in the morning and comin' back for supper.

Enchiladas followed by pineapple upside down cake slow cooked in a couple of Dutch ovens in the coals of a camp fire and consumed next to a Tipi is shinin' times, and that's plumb center.

 

[WrongWay]

gizamo,

I thought you were talking about a groundhog.