Comments on: Dutch Oven Cooking – Oh Boy!

By: amyM

amyM — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:25:00 +0000

Dutch Oven Pizza
Ingredients
2 boxes pizza mix w/ sauce
1 lb mozzarella cheese
1 lb pepperoni (or your favorite topping)

Equipment
Large Dutch Oven
Heavy Duty Aluminum Foil

Instructions
Prepare coals
Line Dutch Oven with heavy duty foil
Mix pizza dough per instructions on box
Spread dough evenly in bottom of Dutch Oven.
Layer with sauce, pepperoni & cheese.
Cover dutch oven, place on coals, put several coals on top. Cook for 15-20 minutes. Better than take out!

Do not use too many coals or you can easily burn the crust.

By: Toni Black

Toni Black — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:46:00 +0000

I have been dutch oven cooking everyday this year. I started out not knowing anything and now I can cook any recipe I want in my dutch oven. It is fun and easy! There are several different ways to figure temperature and the chart you have is great, but for another (easier) method visit my blog at http://www.dutchovenmadness.blogspot.com. Click on the Dinwiddie Method of Temperature Control link on the right for a super simple way to figure out how many coals you need to reach any temperature! Good luck cooking everyone! Its a blast and you are only limited by your imagination!

By: Vicki

Vicki — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:53:48 +0000

Thanks for posting the baking chart for the different size dutch ovens. I have a set of ovens in these sizes and I am happy to know just how many briketts to put on the top and bottom. Thanks for all the hard work you put into this site.
Vicki

By: Vicki

Vicki — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:53:00 +0000

By: guest

guest — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 03:32:59 +0000

I saw a show on the BYU Channel once about dutch oven cooking. They had a very simple formula for calculating your charcoal needs to maintain a 350 internal temperature. It was:
Number of Quarts Dutch Oven x 2 = Number of Charcoal Bricks
For Breads/Baking, 2/3 of that number brickettes on top, 1/3 on bottom
For Meats/Stews, 1/3 of that number brickets on top, 2/3 on bottom.

By: guest

guest — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:32:00 +0000

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:12:40 +0000

Here is our absolute favorite dutch oven dessert recipe.

Chocolate Mud

Spread the bottom of a 12" dutch oven with one can raspberry pie filling. Next dump a chocolate fudge cake mix over the raspberries (the cake mix is dry at this point, nothing like eggs or oil are added to it). Next sprinkle a large box of Junior Mints over the cake mix. Then gently drizzle a 12 oz can of Sprite over the cake mix and mints. Cover cook for 40 minutes or so, then serve with a dollop of whipped cream. Sounds and looks disgusting, but it is delecious!!!

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 05:12:00 +0000

Here is our absolute favorite dutch oven dessert recipe.

Chocolate Mud

Spread the bottom of a 12″ dutch oven with one can raspberry pie filling. Next dump a chocolate fudge cake mix over the raspberries (the cake mix is dry at this point, nothing like eggs or oil are added to it). Next sprinkle a large box of Junior Mints over the cake mix. Then gently drizzle a 12 oz can of Sprite over the cake mix and mints. Cover cook for 40 minutes or so, then serve with a dollop of whipped cream. Sounds and looks disgusting, but it is delecious!!!

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:20:16 +0000

Don't know if this was already mentioned because I don't have time to read through the comments,but I would like to share something I've used on camping trips for a long time.

Cardboard Box + Aluminum foil + Duct tape (not on the inside :/) = poor mans/ quickie/ cheap dutch oven

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 04:20:00 +0000

Don’t know if this was already mentioned because I don’t have time to read through the comments,but I would like to share something I’ve used on camping trips for a long time.

Cardboard Box + Aluminum foil + Duct tape (not on the inside :/) = poor mans/ quickie/ cheap dutch oven