Dutch Oven

retpig · Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 19

Have any of y'all tried incorporating a dutch oven for cooking sides or desert Question

In this picture i'm not cooking but keeping a chicken and rice dish warm, waiting on guest to arrive. These things are amazing as far as controlling temps. They produce a mean cobler too!

marvsbbq · BBQ All Star Joined: 15 May 2005 Posts: 6186

No Dutch Oven here...just not feasible for my operation.

Harry Nutczak · Posted: Aug 23 2007 Post subject:

the words "Dutch oven" have 2 meanings in this part of the country.

the first one for us northwoods boys is exactly what you have pictured,
But I use mine differently, I flip the lid and put the coals on top of it sort of like the "La Caja China" deal.

the other defenition for "Dutch Oven" is when you fart in bed and pull the sheets over the wifes head!! that is a dutch oven!!!
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skybob · Posted: Aug 23 2007 Post subject:

Well, you know, I tried that once. Read into that, actually only once. I thought that I was going to have to go to the ER to get my ribs reset after that. Found out that my wife and I really didn't share the same sense of humor about that sort of thing.
Women...... Confused

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BBQMAN · Posted: Aug 23 2007 Post subject:

So you mean that you didn't "get any" that night either? Laughing

TOO good!

I saw a really nice dutch oven circa 1860ish for sale at a local antique shop. They wanted around $500.00 for it! Shocked

Looking back, I wish I had bought it! Crying or Very sad

Excellent for using as an oven. Thats why the ridge is around the lid- so you can pile coals on top.

Takes some skill to have bread, biscuits, or pies come out properly.
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Harry Nutczak · Posted: Aug 23 2007 Post subject:

if the dutch oven says "griswold" on the bottom and lid, it is worth $500.00 to the collectors of cast iron cookware.

watch out for cracks, the can & will crack making them worthless.
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retpig · Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 19

The oven we use is from "The Lodge". I really have enjoyed it Laughing

What I found interesting is just how many people don't know about this style of cooking. It really is a conversation piece and I think would be a unique addition to a caterer!

Just me planning out loud Razz

broncosmoker · BBQ Pro Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 717

Hunting season is around the corner up here and we do a lot of Dutch Oven cooking if we are allowed to (Lots of fire restrctions this time of year. We usually have anywhere from4-9 going at a time for food for whenever. The best is seven day stew. Man life gets good then.

retpig · Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 19

I hear ya broncosmoker......we have a small cabin in Tenn. ...no electric...
and during the winter you just sit the left overs some where safe outside and re-heat when your hungry again.

GQGeek81 · Joined: 18 Jun 2005 Posts: 22

I've got a pair and love them. We've taken them on canoing trips a few times. They are a PITA to portage but make an awesome roasted chicken. I've done duck and rabbit in them too. Very moist heat.
Biscuits work pretty good

I've tried to do dessert once or twice and always ended up with it burnt to the bottom.

I just have got mine seasoned jet black so nothing really sticks anymore.

Cee Dub's cookbook on the subject makes me want to do a rafting trip.
Days on the water and evenings feasting.

broncosmoker · BBQ Pro Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 717

adolpho · Posted: Aug 23 2007 Post subject:

My hat is off to all those who cook with dutch ovens in the traditional style. Every year I look forward to watching the Chuck Wagon Cookoff on the Food Network and seeing those guys work their magic. We have our debates about fire management and who's basically more hardcore (stickburners, lump, briquettes, offset, verticals, ceramics, pellets, gas, etc.). Those cooks are the real deal when it comes to fire management. Some of the veterans even occasionally burn their food because years of training still doesn't determine what Mother Nature's going to do to their fire.

We bought a 12" dutch oven a couple of months ago and seasoned her in the oven (I know it's cheating but I didn't want to mess up my first dutch oven). She has sat since and been rubbed a couple of times. The whole intention of buying it is because my wife wants to learn to make a cobbler in it for cookoffs that have that as an ancillary event. At Cabela's, we've found the Dutch Oven tables and thought about getting it for when we plan to start actually cooking with it. Maybe a table like that (I believe they fold) can be used at a catering event to cook some kind of desert. And as someone has said, it would make for good conversation.

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OddThomas · Posted: Aug 23 2007 Post subject:

Hi,

If you run an offset, you can cook with one right on top of the firebox.

marvsbbq · BBQ All Star Joined: 15 May 2005 Posts: 6186

We have a nice set of stainless steel pots and pans but we really enjoy cooking on our cast iron more.

When we are catering a luncheon and have to be on site pretty early in the AM, we often take a large cast iron fry pan and cook breakfast for ourselves on the 2 burner gas stove that I have mounted on my smoker.