Dutch Oven Cooking, Tips, Ideas, Recipes, Success, and Failers.

[Boss .300 winmag]

Ok Instinct got me excited about cooking with dutch oven questions tonight.

I'll start with a recipe.

Dutch Oven Dump Cake, depending on size of oven ( 10-12" cut the recipe in half), 16" is what I will be basing recipe on.

Two yellow or white cake mixes. If you like chocolate cake, cherries work well with that.
Two 30 oz cans of fruit of your choice, peaches work well, or fresh/frozen blue berries add one cup sugar to these and simmer one stove to juice berries and sugar ( use one can and all juice, other drain and drink juice).
One stick butter, (slice butter into 1/8 thick patties).
Sprite or Cranberry mist soda.

Place fruit in dutch oven, pour cake mix over it evenly, put butter patties on top cake mix evenly spaced apart, and pour about 3/4 cup of soda on top in a spiral fashion.

16" dutch oven will need 22 brickets on top and 10 on bottom to reach 350 degrees, For ease of oven cleaning, line oven with tinfoil.

[Jason]

I don't have many recipes, but we cook all kinds of food in ours. Chili, stew, cornbread, ham, beans and lots more.
I don't use briquettes, I have a 60" Tripod that I use to hang it over a fire.

[Boss .300 winmag]

I don't have many recipes, but we cook all kinds of food in ours. Chili, stew, cornbread, ham, beans and lots more.
I don't use briquettes, I have a 60" Tripod that I use to hang it over a fire.

When you cook breads and stuff, how does the top get cooked?

[Jason]

I don't have many recipes, but we cook all kinds of food in ours. Chili, stew, cornbread, ham, beans and lots more.
I don't use briquettes, I have a 60" Tripod that I use to hang it over a fire.

When you cook breads and stuff, how does the top get cooked?

I've only cooked cornbread in it, no breads. When we do corn bread, we preheat the dutch oven over the fire.
Then we pull the lid off, dump the cornbread mixture in, cook for 20min, never had a problem.

[Boss .300 winmag]

Ok thanks.

[steen]

My sister is the expert on Dutch Oven cooking.  We lived on it up in the Pasayten on our 2009 horseback summer pack in for 6 days.  We ate like royalty and could hardly fit in dessert cause we had more than enough of everything else.  Cowboy breakfast, guinie fowl with wild rice and a vegie, Wild blackberry french toast, bacon and eggs, wild caught fresh trout and alot more I can't remember.  Yum!  We ate well!  No failers except we needed one more person to eat the leftovers, no way could you lose weight on a trip like that.

[flinger]

Dump cakes
cobblers=cherry/peach /apple /mixed berry
pineapple upside down cake
monkey bread
cinnnamon buns
Garlic bread/biscuits
chicken pot pie
pizza
Mt.man breakfast
deep fried donuts
Stews
lasagna
and many others
all succesful
+anything you can cook in your kitchen at home a dutch oven will cook as good or better / temp of oven can be sensitive to weather a good windblock will keep temp consistent. best way to do your charcoal 1) don't use cheap stuff kingsford is about the best and 2) only buy an oven with legs.basic rule for heat 4 over 2 under example if you have a 12 in. use16 on top 10 under/16 in. 20 top 14 bottom/ as i said alot of things can affect the temp.experiment you will find that you may impress yourself and many others