Dutch ovens for trail cooking - anyone else try it?

[tortuga]

Re: Dutch ovens for trail cooking - anyone else try it?

Pics:
1st - cake in the oven

2d - cake flipped

3d - egg dish

4 - cooking setup

[14Justice]

Re: Dutch ovens for trail cooking - anyone else try it?

Very nice! We Elk hunt up in Oregon every year and cook mainly using Dutch Ovens. Really enjoy the food out of the ovens...

[brocbronc]

Re: Dutch ovens for trail cooking - anyone else try it?

I used to take those on long white water rafting trips back in the day. We would make casseroles and cobblers. Spent 28 days rafting down the Grand Canyon in 1999.

[welndmn]

Re: Dutch ovens for trail cooking - anyone else try it?

Did yours came with that little stand?
Neither one I own did, maybe I should make one.

[tortuga]

Re: Dutch ovens for trail cooking - anyone else try it?

Stand was extra. Pretty handy, keeps lid out of the dirt with coals on top or you can flip lid to use as frying pan and use stand to keep it above the coals.

[14Justice]

Re: Dutch ovens for trail cooking - anyone else try it?

On some of my dishes, I use the tri-pod with the chain for temp adjustment. That works well around an open fire with hot coals.

[Formerjughead]

Re: Dutch ovens for trail cooking - anyone else try it?

Thom Cheney is the dutch oven cooking master. I mainly use mine to cook biscuits. I use the lid (underside) to fry eggs, make tortillas, make flat bread and pizza on my gas grill.

A word of caution: The lid stays hot long after you think it's cooled off enough.

[CityHick]

Re: Dutch ovens for trail cooking - anyone else try it?

Dredging up an old idea... I found a useful resource in temperature regulation with charcoal in a dutch oven:

http://www.dutchovendude.com/campfire-cooking.shtml

I will be experimenting with this in the back yard between now and summer...

[14Justice]

Re: Dutch ovens for trail cooking - anyone else try it?

That's some good info there! Thanks for sharing.