Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 17:33:09 -0500
Reply-To: wilden1@JUNO.COM
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From: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: CDOs Ovens and such
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Great research, Pensioner
I try not to get too elaborate on my meals while camoing out but I do
like to make toast with my breakfast.
I just turn the bread a few times in my skillet before I start frying or
scarmbling my eggs.
I've seen complete meals come out of dutch ovens and would reccomend them
if cooking for more than three people.
Stan Wilder
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 14:43:48 -0700 pensioner <al_knoll@PACBELL.NET>
writes:
> Hi volks,
>
> As Stan, I think it was Stan, mentioned dutch ovens work well and
> complement
> the westy camping experience very well.
>
> DOs come in two basic configurations. Those with feet and rimmed
> lid,
> called Camp Dutch Ovens and the plain Dutch oven without the feet
> and with a
> lid not designed to hold embers.
>
> Both work in essentially the same way for cooking or baking, they
> contain
> the heat/moisture environment for the goodies, but hey you knew
> that.
>
> For the Westie stove, an alternative might be the Coleman brand of
> folding
> oven designed to work with coleman stoves.
>
> I personally have a square dutch oven manufactured
> by...er...ah...hmmmm,
> gotta look that up. It forms either two pans one deep one not deep
> or one
> CDO. It is aluminum and has served me well for more than ten years.
>
> Amongst the CDO folks there are purists, who use only vintage
> Griswold,
> Wagner or similar cast iron CDOs and take great delight in the
> lucious
> dishes they can produce with these finely made cooking instruments.
>
> Alas, for today the current Lodge and Wagner CDOs are a shadow of
> the
> vintage quality but work fairly well. Like all CI cookware they
> must be
> seasoned a bit to perform to expectations.
>
> Also among the CDO folks are the heretics, they use everything from
> nesting
> cookie tins to nicely made Aluminum Dutch ovens to the current crop
> of CDOs
> from Lodge and Wagner.
>
> Aluminum has the advantage of light weight, dishwasherable, no
> particular
> special care required. CI cooks more evenly, looks fearsome in its
> shiny
> black patina and carrys enough clout to break your foot if you drop
> the oven
> on it.
>
> There are volumes written on DO cooking, care and lore. CDOs allow
> oven use
> over campfires, charcoal grills or even in a standard oven.
>
> They are designed to have a heat source on the lid in the form of
> coals from
> a campfire in addition to being heated from below. This gives an
> even heat
> top and bottom that is controllable by the number coals used.
>
> For use with the westie propane stove I recommend a 10" diameter
> round
> aluminum dutch oven, Northwest River supplies sells these. In
> Gridley, CA,
> Butte Creek Outfitters sells em too.
>
> I'll look up the maker of my square one. His name was Woody and his
> wife
> runs the business now I think..wait...through the mist...Hobart Mfg.
> NOT
> the big industrial foodmachine maker.
>
> pensioner
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