Nomen Nescio > wrote:

>Why call a dutch oven a dutch oven? I'm sure that many other
>cultures/nations have been using that idea ever since iron was
>cast.

It's a cultural slur, although I'm not sure it's one anyone
ever complains about.

My house has "dutch gutters". Instead of having a dedicated,
manufactured gutter component, the gutter is constructed
just by carpentry and then roofing over it. The implication
is it's the lowest-cost way of forming a gutter, requiring
no special materials.

Similarly, a dutch oven is the lowest-cost way of obtaining
oven-like conditions -- in a covered pot, that can just be
set on a fire.

Steve