Date:         Sat, 26 Aug 2000 17:56:58 -0700
Reply-To:     Bill Davidson <wdavidson@thegrid.net>
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From:         Bill Davidson <wdavidson@thegrid.net>
Subject:      Re: Westy Cookware
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(FWIW a dutch oven is just a big cast iron pot
> which does not have it's own heat source. Great for cooking a pot roast at
> home but too cumbersome for inside the Westy).

I have, and use a dutch oven that has three legs as part of the pot... I
have several sizes, but I take a small 8" one in the westy... cook things
like lazzonia, stew, enchilladas, and best of all... stuffed cornish game
hen... with potatoes, carrots, onion... yum... the small pot will make
enough for two hungry people... a 10" pot would make enough for three, I
think..

Bill



>
> Anyway the dutch oven stand I use is designed to sit in the hot ash of a
> campfire. It has three "legs" that I sit on the stainless steel top of the
> stove in the Westy and crosses over the flame at about the same height as
the
> existing Westy grill. It essentially makes a three bar cross across the
the
> hole in the existing grill. The down side it it scratches the stainless
steel
> stove top below the grill where the "legs" sit. Holds up a smaller pot
fine.
>
> To use a pot big enough to sit on the existing Westy grill gets a little
> silly for my taste. (that's not to criticise anyone who uses a bigger
pot).
>
> Also for coffee I have a Melita 6 cup drip pot that cost about $10 or $15
at
> Lechters which is a kitchen store in the east and maybe elsewhere. The top
> funnel that holds the coffee grounds and cone filter is plastic and the
> bottom pot for the coffee is pyrex. The top plastic funnel just snaps off
the
> pot after the coffee has dripped through and the pot itself is comapct and
> easy to pour. Not rocket science, but it works pretty well for me so I
> thought I'd share it. And FWIW I just heat the water in the same stove top
> pot I use for most other things to avoid carrying an extra kettle for
boiling
> water.
>
> that's my 2 cents-- 1.2 cents canadian.
>
> Jeff
> 83.5 Westy
> Currently in Boulder, CO
>