Lodge Logic L10C03 4 Qt. Cast Iron Camping Dutch Oven

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This Lodge 4 quart cast iron camping dutch oven is small enough to pack easily and large enough to feed a family or group. The flanged lid will hold hot coals  that facilitate cooking and  keep ashes out of the pot. The cast iron camp lid can be turned upside down for use as a griddle. You actually get two cast iron cookware products for the price of one. The dutch oven legs provide stability and safety for use over your campfire or fireplace. This camp dutch oven is a skillet, saute pan, casserole cooker and fry pan all in one. How’s that for a utility castiron pot? A lifetime investment you will be able to pass it on to your children or grandchildren.  In our family cast iron cookware is passed down from one generation to the next. The cast iron dutch oven was originated for outdoor cooking and for centuries has done it’s job.

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CAST IRON COOKWARE ALLOWS YOU TO TASTE THE FOOD NOT THE COOKEWARE

The Gateway to Family Fun with Cast Iron Camping Cookware and Accessories

Cook In Cast Iron Tonight or When You Camp

What do you do when family is not as fun as it once was? Here are some suggestions that may help put the fun back in family. They may just be the Gateway to Family Fun you have been looking for.

Cast Iron Camp Cookware: Gateway to Family Fun

• a family outing or camping trip can be the occasion to rediscover just how much fun being together can be. Hunting, fishing, hiking, exploring, birdwatching, photography and campfire cooking.

Teach your kids to cook over a camp fire or a fire pit.

Check out these easy ways to use cast iron camping cookware products:

Rome Dog 'n Brat Cooker

A Firepit Cookout set

Rome Firepit Cookout Set

gives you numerous fun options:

Make toasty sandwiches or fruit pies in your Rome pie irons.

Roast hot dogs or marshmallows in your Rome Hot Dog/Marshmallows Roaster.

Do not forget every one’s family favorite S’mores. Make three at a time in your Rome S’more Maker.

Not all camp cooking is done in a dutch oven or a skillet. While these are wonderful for preparing the main meal, what about dessert or fun activities around the campfire before time to turn-in?

Rome Popcorn Popper

The Old South Pot: A Symbol of Success

“In the old days, the hall mark of successful plantation life was the iron pot” according to Francois Mignon in”Plantation Memo: Plantation Life in Louisiana 1750-1970 and other matter”.

Oakland Plantation, Bermuda, Louisiana

When there was no silver on the dining room table, you could survive on pewter, earthenware, china or porcelain. You might even survive if your white-columned mansion went up in flames, but “life without an iron pot was rugged in the extreme“.

“In Louisiana all during the 1700’s (Great Pots Era), iron cooking utensils ranging from little three-legged pots nestling safely upright on the ashes in the hearth (today we call them camping Dutch ovens) to the big iron skillets, so masterfully handled by Negro cooks, were familiar equipment in town and plantation homes alike. It was early in the 1800’s however, that the day of the great pots dawned…sugar had come into its own and from year to year greater grew the demand for bigger and even bigger iron pots in which the cane juice could be started on its way to syrup and eventually to granulated sugar…”

Iron pots for making syrup and sugar, wash pots or clothes and iron pots for cooking food; they are all a part of what was life on a plantation. The iron pots from life on a plantation are today reminders of an almost forgotten yesterday. Some can still be seen on the Cane River Creole Plantations of Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Today’s cast iron cookware

Lodge Cast Iron Cookware

may be pre-seasoned, enameled and somewhat unlike its predecessor from the past, but is still indebted to pots from the past for a heritage of nostalgic appeal and excellent cooking. Old fashioned? A little heavy? Nevertheless, cast iron cookware has its place in today’s kitchen and in the camping gear of out door cooks.

Lodge Camp Dutch Oven

Lodge 12 Inch Skillet

Cook In Cast Iron Tonight or When You Camp

Cooking Around a Campfire with Cast Iron Cookware and Accessories

Lodge Combo Cooker

What travels well, cooks evenly, cleans up easily and is just about the perfect cookware for campfire and outdoor cooking?The answer: cast iron cookware. All you need is a campfire with a few hot coals and anyone can cook in the great outdoors or at your backyard fire pit. You do not have a be a rocket scientist or a professional chef.

WHAT YOU NEED TO GET STARTED:

Really, all you need is two pieces.

1. A Dutch Oven (also called camp ovens)
   

   Lodge Camp Dutch Oven

2. A skillet with a lid. Many outdoor     cooks consider other pieces necessary but these two are adequate to get you started.

Lodge 10 1/4 Inch Skillet/ Fry Pan

SOME BUYING TIPS:

• If you shop for a dutch oven, be sure to look for one that comes with a reversible lid that functions both as a lid and when turned over is a griddle. The griddle side has a concave shape which keeps your pancakes, bacon and eggs, bacon, etc. from falling off or dripping into your coals.
• Skillets, like a  Cast Iron combination deep skillet and shallow skillet/griddle is a useful addition to your castiron cook ware. The shallow skillet serves as lid, skillet and griddle. This multi-use cooker is a dutch oven, saute pan and fryer, all in one.  If you want just one cast iron cookware piece for your camping and outdoor cooking, this might just be what you are looking for.

DO NOT FORGET SOME CAMPING COOKWARE ACCESSORIES THAT ARE DESIGNED FOR BIG TIME FUN

When you planing your camping trip, outdoor excursion or back yard cookout, do not forget cast iron camping cookware and camping cookware accessories.

Rome Firepit Cookout Set Includes pie irons, hot dog/marshmallow roasters. s'more maker

Round Pie Iron by Rome

Rome Dog 'n Brat Cooker

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Cast Iron Dutch Oven: the Pot that Won the West

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Some say the cast iron dutch

Lodge Cast Iron Dutch Oven

oven goes back hundreds of years. Others maintain the dutch oven originated with the Chinese 2,500 years ago. A great source for further investigation is “Dutch Ovens Chronicled, Their Use in the United States” by John G. Ragsdale, published by the University of Arkansas Press.

In 1704 Abraham Darby traveled from England to Holland to inspect the Dutch casing process which used brass vessels cast in sand molds. When he returned to England, Darby experimented with this process and eventually patented a casting process using a superior quality of molding sand as well as the process of baking the mold to improve casting smoothness. Soon Darby was casting and shipping pots to the new colonies as well as other parts of the world. Ragsdale suggests that the name “Dutch Oven” may have originated from the original Dutch process for the casting of these metal pots. Others believe that the name may have come from Dutch settlers in Pennsylvania who used similar cast iron pots or kettles.

Cast Iron Dutch Ovens can have:

• a  flat bottom having three legs to hold the oven above a bed of coals for a heat source from below the dutch oven
• flat sides and a flat, flanged lid for holding coals for a heat source from above the dutch oven therefore giving it an “oven” effect
• a steel bail handle attached to the “ears” on each side of the dutch oven near the top to enable carrying

This type of oven is a cast iron camping dutch oven.

Lodge Camp Dutch Oven

Cast Iron Dutch Ovens also come Enameled

Lodge Red Enamel Dutch Oven

in beautiful colors that are so attractive that you can  serve your guests at the table from your dutch oven. Your food will stay warm because cast iron is great for its heat retention.

When the West was opened and the United States was expanding and people were on the move, they were forced to leave their large, heavy cook stoves behind.  People learned to cook complete meals from stews to soups, bread to biscuits, in their Dutch Ovens.  This pioneering spirit is not a lost art. Wonderful and tasty meals are still being prepared today in cast iron cookware.The cast iron dutch oven was the “Queen of the Fleet” when the Prairie Schooners rolled westward. It still reigns.

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Cast Iron Cookware Shop Offers Camp Cookware and Accessories

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Cast Iron Cookware Shop offers great options to compliment your camp cooking gear.

Camp Cooking Is Fun!

Get ready for your camping and outdoor recreation activities with cast iron cookware products and accessories from Lodge and Rome.

Rome Firepit Cookout Set

A rugged Lodge tripod made of hot rolled half inch solid bar stock with 24 inch galvanized chain. The tripod legs measure 43 1/2 inches. Use with any cast iron product that has a bail handle. such as a Lodge Dutch Oven, camp dutch oven or cast iron kettle. Cook your food over the campfire and keep it at serving temperature in your castiron pot. This tripod travels well in car, truck or camper. (dutch oven not included)

The Rome Firepit Cookout Set includes a round cast iron pie iron, a square cast iron pie iron, a S´more Maker, and Hot Dog-Marshmallow Roasters.

Lodge 10 1/4 Inch Skillet/ Fry Pan

Cool Cast Iron Camping Cookware & Accessories

Some really “cool“  Camping Cast Iron Cookware and Camping Cookware Accessories are really “hot” for  2010 camping.

Lodge Camp Dutch Oven

Lodge 10 1/4 Inch Skillet

There are some really good reasons to get to the great outdoors and camp.

Here are some:

• the soul deadening pace of modern life. Even if you win the rat race you are still a “rat”.
• the ceaseless activity that drains our vitality.
• being harried and hassled by life’s demands
• being stuck on fast forward and running on empty
• add your reasons and comment below

Some Reasons to Go Camping:

• camping is fun and family friendly
  

  Camping is Cool

• camping allows you to be who you are and want to be in a place you want to be. Tension is who you think (or others think) you should be. Relaxation is who you are (Chinese Proverb).
• camping is still affordable
• fun activities while you camp offer numerous possibilities. Use your imagination
  

  Rome Panini Presses

• no doubt you can think of others. We would love to hear from you.
  

  Rome Popcorn PopperLodge

  

  Rome Firepit Cookout Set

  

  Round Pie Iron by RomeS'More Maker

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  Camp and Cook In Cast Iron

Cast Iron Cookware Camping Essentials

Essentials for Camping

When camping, it is important to eliminate the non-essential and pack as lightly as possible. While not exactly light, there are two pieces of cast iron cookware that I will always take with me.

ONE:  a cast iron camping dutch oven

Lodge Camp Dutch Oven

The cast iron camping dutch oven is small enough to pack easily and large enough to feed a family or group. The flanged lid will hold hot coals to facilitate cooking and to keep ashes out of the pot. The cast iron camp lid can be turned upside down for use as a griddle. The dutch oven legs provide stability and safety for use over your campfire or fireplace. This camp dutch oven is a skillet, saute pan, casserole cooker and fry pan all in one. A castiron pot is a lifetime investment. In our family cast iron cookware is passed down from one generation to the next. The cast iron dutch oven was originated for outdoor cooking and for centuries has done it’s job.

Add to Your Outdoor Cooking Enjoyment

Two: a cast iron 10 inch skillet

The cast iron skillet is ideal for eggs, bacon sausage, pancakes and omelets for breakfast. You can fry saute, make desserts like stewed apples and other fruits.  You can grill your meats. The cast iron skillet also can serve as a grill, and griddle.

Lodge 10 1/4 Inch Skillet

Louisiana Cooks in Cast Iron Cookware

For as long as I can remember my Louisiana family has cooked in cast iron cookware.Every Friday my Dad would hang a huge cast iron dutch oven on a wire between two trees and fry prodigious amounts of cat fish and french fries for family, visiting relatives (many times vacationing with us) and friends. It was really a communal meal. Since we lived on Cross Lake, Shreveport, Louisiana, we caught the catfish and dressed them ourselves. I wonder what ever happened to that cast iron pot? As an adult, I would love to still have it and would treasure it like the “Holy Grail“!

My Dad would have loved to have had a tri-pod for the Friday night fish frys and when we went camping.

Lodge Camp Dutch Oven and 43 1/2 inch TriPod

Matt Pelton got it right in “The Cast Iron Chef”

“There are no words to describe the tastes of food prepared in this way (cast iron cookware); it is like a symphony of perfectly balanced flavors. There is something magical about Dutch-oven prepared food. It began as a necessity and has become a pleasurable pastime”

Lodge Cast Iron Dutch Oven

Dutch Oven cooking is not just a hobby, it is a staple in Louisiana kitchens today. Many dutch ovens are coming out of storage, out of attics, being dusted off, discovered anew and put into use. Cast iron cookware is not just big in the kitchen, it is enormously popular among camping and out door enthusiasts.

Lodge Camp Dutch Oven

Many people think of a Dutch Oven as only a type of “antique crock pot” or a slow-cooker. In Louisiana kitchens, including ours, there are four cooking methods that you can use with a cast iron dutch oven:

1. Roasting (all the heat is coming from the bottom of the Dutch Oven.
2. Broasting (most of the heat is coming from the bottom with a little heat on top)
   
3. Baking (equal heat on bottom and top)
   
4. Broiling (all of the heat is at the top. Usually used in the finishing stage or with dishes that require heavy caramelizing on the top)
   

   Lodge Red Enamel Dutch Oven

Louisiana cooks have found that their options are almost endless whether cooking in the kitchen, at their back yard fire pit, or in the great outdoors camping.

Discover or Re-discover cast iron Cookware and you will enjoy ease in cooking, great tasting food, non-stick cookware that cleans up easily and cookware that allows you to taste the food not the cookware.

For Kitchen or Camping

Cast Iron Cookware: A Fan Not A Fanatic

Cast iron cookware is the predominant cookware in our kitchen by a long shot.

fry pans,dutch oven, griddle

Do we have and use other types of cookware? Yes. For example this morning I made grits in an aluminum pot and eggs in a Lodge cast iron skillet, sunny side up, to top them off. If you have never tried this, give it a try. You do not have to be from the South to like grits and eggs. I also baked some banana-nut muffins in a cast iron muffin pan.

Lodge Logic Cast Iron Muffin Pan

I can tell you for a fact that the clean-up with the two cast iron pieces was much easier than with the lighter aluminum pan. Just a little warm water for the cast iron cookware, dry them throughouly before putting them away. Never put them in a dishwasher. Use them often and they just get better with use. Cast Iron Cookware is a very old type of cookware. It has made a remarkable resurgence over the recent past. There are reasons for this:

• Cast Iron Cookware is highly regarded for its even heating, versatility and durability. It is relatively inexpensive when you consider it will last for a lifetime. Actually it will last for several lifetimes and you can pass you cast iron pots, skillets, and dutch ovens on to your children and grandchildren.
• Cast Iron Cookware puts you in touch with earlier times in the great American tradition, with close associations with colonial, pioneer, and cowboy cooking. It is timeless cooking.
• Cast Iron Cookware has exceptional heat retention and even cooking  properties; as such it is excellent for stewing, browning, frying and baking. The day is young and already I have done two out of four of these cooking methods.
• Cast Iron Cookware is the truly “non-stick cookware” for me. Again, I am a real fan but not a “fanatic“. However, doesn’t the word “fan” come from the word “fanatic“? Hmmm. After seasoning properly, the surface of the cast iron is totally non- stick meaning you can cook  with little or no oil making it an exceptionally healthy form of cooking.
  

  Lodge Skillet/ Fry Pan

• Cast Iron Cookware is excellent for outdoor use in your fire pit cookouts in your back yard or when out hunting, fishing, camping or hiking.
  

  Lodge Camp Dutch Oven

• Cast Iron Cookware excels with recipes that require cooking at high temperatures such as when searing or frying.

Try cooking with cast iron and you will likely become a “fan“. If you are already cooking with cast iron cookware, add to your selection. You can do so without danger of becoming “fanatical“.

Go Green with Cast Iron Cookware

In conclusion, cast iron cookware is not just a thing of the past. It has been a part of our past and is very much a part of our present and future. Cast Iron Cookware is thriving and outperforming all  other more recent cookware that seeks to compete with it.

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