SteveB wrote:
> "George Shirley" > wrote in message
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>> SteveB wrote:
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>>>>> The ones with the lid for coals are meant to be used outside in a
>>>>> campfire.
>>>>> The bottom of the pot (generally with legs) sits in coals and the lid
>>>>> also
>>>>> has coals so you've created an 'oven.'
>>>>> Janet
>>>> We have South African friends who brought one for home and cook on it
>>>> at barbecues.
>>>> The same people have a flat-bottom one for use indoors on a cooker ring;
>>>> excellent for long slow casseroling.
>>>>
>>>> They are VERY heavy duty cast iron (makes le Creuset look like a
>>>> weakling) so anyone with weak wrists/arthritis, be warned; you
>>>> might have difficulty lifting a full one.. (I did)
>>>>
>>>> Janet.
>>> They make special tools. One particularly dangerous task is to lift the
>>> lid with the hot charcoal on it. The specialty tool is only about $5.
>>> There are other things that help out the dutch oven cooking fanatic.
>>>
>>> I'm redoing my back yard. When finished, it will have a three sided
>>> stand with a steel plate floor just for dutch oven cooking. An
>>> interesting creative way to cook that produces delicious results.
>>>
>>> Steve
>> I cooked for years at the deer camp with cast iron cookware. My favorite
>> was the 12-quart Dutch oven with the recessed lid and the three feet on
>> the bottom. Bake biscuits, bread, cake, braise meat, cook about anything
>> with it. Actually had about fourteen different pieces of cast iron
>> cookware, most of it thirties and forties manufacture, picked it up at
>> estate sales, yard sales, flea markets, wherever I could find the stuff.
>>
>> Most of it was really rusty from being stored in barns or other
>> outbuildings. Took it into the shop and sandblasted it all, rinsed it good
>> with hot water, then coated it, inside and out, with lard, then stuck it
>> into the big wood fired cook stove, restaurant size, at the neighbors old
>> restaurant. Came out pristine and ready to use.
>>
>> During a move many years ago some SOB stole it. I suspect the moving truck
>> driver but we could never prove it. Nowadays I have one four-quart cast
>> iron dutch oven and a ten-inch skillet. Don't even have a corn stick pan
>> anymore. Sob!
>
> Go treat yourself to some new pieces of Lodge cast iron. They're worth it.
>
> Steve
>
>
Don't camp anymore Steve and the two pieces I have are Lodge and all I
need nowadays.