Islands wrote on 25 Mar 2006 in rec.food.cooking

> Hi,
> What is a dutch oven? If a recipe requires one is there something else
> I can use?
> Thank you!
> Lisa
>
>

A 4-8 qt thick pot with a lid, a tight fitting lid. But unless you're going
to use it over a camp stove most any pot with a good lid will work in it's
place.

A dutch oven can be used on the burner, in the oven over a camp fire and in
a camp fire burried in coals.

But these days they're used mostly on the stove's burner or in the oven. So
as a subsitute pick something that's handles are oven proof and is fairly
thick so as to hold heat well.

--
-Alan