Dutch Oven

[featherface]

Does anyone have any good Dutch Oven recipe's to share, I'm trying to get some ideas for good, easy meals & snacks to prepare at camp.

 

[martymarty]

hehehehe Im twisted!!

when I saw this thread title "dutch oven" first thing I thought of was a guys version of dutch oven ...............................laying in bed with your DW, pass gas and hold the covers over her head

sorry.................please continue

 

[jdb in AZ]

I just did a Google search and there's SOOO many recipes online.

A good rule of thumb for determining how many charcoal briquets to use: multiply the diameter of your oven (often 12") times two and that will give you 325F-350F heat. Assuming the briquets are freshly ignited and there isn't a major wind to make the charcoal burn up and lose its heat too quickly.

Each briquet you add after the basic formula will increase the temp 10-15 degrees. When you're baking a cobbler, cake, etc, 2/3 of the charcoal should be on top, with the other third under the oven.

Using the above info you can adapt most any recipe from home.

 

[TheRustyScupper]

I. . . A good rule of thumb for determining how many charcoal briquets to use: multiply the diameter of your oven (often 12") times two and that will give you 325F-350F heat . . . Each briquet you add after the basic formula will increase the temp 10-15 degrees . . . Using the above info you can adapt most any recipe from home.

1) Actually, there is little change from home oven recipes to Dutch Ovens.
2) Just remember to 180º rotate the oven 1/2 way through cooking.
3) BUT, in a dutch oven, cobbler and biscuits seem better !!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[retired and happy]

If the dutch oven is sitting on an evenly distributed bed of coals, why rotate it?

 

[disney4dan]

Roast Pork, center cut, bone in roast with salt, pepper, garlic powder and a little paprika. Put the carrots on the bottom, potatoes on the side, 7 or 8 briquettes underneath and 14-16 on top, change them out every half hour or so, and you are good to go in two to two and a half hours. This was a 5.5 pound roast we cooked with the scouts last weekend. Just realized that I can't load photos using the eTicket app...will log back in with a browser and try it later;-)

P.S. I thought the same thing about the "other" type of Dutch Oven trick - great minds think alike.

 

[disney4dan]

If the dutch oven is sitting on an evenly distributed bed of coals, why rotate it?

I found I needed to rotate the oven sometimes if it was windy out or if I had the charcoal chimney near the oven. I keep charcoal going in the chimney to add fresh bricks during the cooking; if too close, it can overheat that side and burn what's cooking inside.

 

[disney4dan]

Photo of the final product about to be devoured at a scout camp:

Forget it, can't seem to copy and paste links to photobucket using Safari on an iPhone either! Trust me, it was delicious!

 

[5stljayhawks]

Butter the sides - input 2 cans of pie filling. I use one lite and regular. Then 1 or 2 boxes of cake mix on top. Val. Unless you want the chol/cherry thing. Carefully put one stick of butter cutt in chunks on top of cake mix.


Close cook, top and bottom....


FYI- there are some fine cook book out there for dutch oven cooking. Also I came across 70 or 80 page boyscout book that had all kinds of recp.

 

[featherface]

LOL maybe I should edit the title,........ Thanks for the recipes and all the great advice, cant wait to try some out.