Lodge Cast Iron Six Quart Camp Dutch Oven
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The Lodge Six Quart Cast Iron Camping Dutch Oven is small enough to pack easily and travel well. It is large enough to cook meals for a family or group. The flanged lid holds hot coals to facilitate cooking with heat from a above like an oven and keeps ashes from falling into your 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. This Dutch Oven from 1890 is an example.
Lodge Logic L10C03 4 Qt. Cast Iron Camping Dutch Oven
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Lodge Logic 4 qt. Camp 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 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
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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.
- 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
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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 Camp Dutch Oven
Lodge 10 1/4 Inch Skillet/ Fry Pan
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.
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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:
- Roasting (all the heat is coming from the bottom of the Dutch Oven.
- Broasting (most of the heat is coming from the bottom with a little heat on top)
- Baking (equal heat on bottom and top)
- 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
Get the Right Pan for the Job
When is comes to cooking, it is important to get the right pan for the job.
Cast iron cookware is a very old-fashioned manner of cooking. It has made a remarkable comeback over the last few years. There are reasons for this:
- even heating
- heat retention
- versatility
- durability
- non-stick, when properly seasoned
Enamel Roaster/GrillPan Lid
Cast iron cookware is made by pouring molten iron into molds to fashion the designed configurations for baking pans, skillets, dutch ovens, jambalaya pots and cornbread pans. Cast iron cookware is not a thing of the past but the wave of the future to really make your cooking “pan” out as delicious and healthy. Make sure you get the right pan for the job.
Lodge 6 Quart Camping Dutch Oven
What are the advantages of cooking with cast iron pans?
1. Cast iron cookware has exceptional heat retention and even cooking properties.
2. It is excellent for stewing, browning, frying and baking.
3. After seasoning, the surface of the cast iron is totally non- stick. You can cook with little or no oil making it an exceptionally healthy form of cooking.
4. It is versatile, heavy duty, rugged, durable, sturdy and lasts for generations.
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5. It is excellent for cooking when hunting, fishing, camping or scouting, back yard fire pits or even in your fireplace.
6. Using cast iron adds trace elements of iron into your diet.
7. Unlike much cookware on the market it is totally free of additives that can flake off into your food.
8. It is excellent for recipes that need to be cooked at high temperatures as in searing or frying.
9. Compared to other cookware, it is one of the most versatile forms of cookware you can buy.
10. Cast iron cookware is unquestionably the best value cookware you’ll ever purchase. It can be used on the stove top, in the oven and on top of a fire. The fact that it lasts for generations means you will not be reinvesting in cookware every few years. Cast iron cookware is not a purchase, it is an investment. It will become a family heirloom to be enjoyed by your grandchildren and great grandchildren.
11. Cast Iron Cookware allows you to taste the food not the cookware.
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Try Cooking with a “Strad”
There are 600 know violins made by the renowned Italian violin maker Antonio Stradivari. It has been long speculated that the brilliant tone of a “Strad” might be due to the varnish. Now this theory has lost a bit of “luster”.
Jean-Phillippe Echard, a chemist at the Musee de la Musique in Paris states that a “very basic recipe” was used on the five instruments tested. The recipe consists of drying oil, linseed or walnut on the first coat to seal the wood, followed by a coat of oil and pine fir or larch resin with red pigment added.
Mr. Echard suggested, half-jokingly, “maybe a player, when seeing a beautiful instrument…plays better. Maybe this is the secret.”
(Online study published by a German Chemistry Journal, Angewandte Chemie, International Edition).
For me, it is not a stretch of the imagination and certainly no secret that seeing a beautiful cast iron pot is the equivalent of a “Strad” in your kitchen. Cooking with cast iron cookware is a very basic recipe and certainly no mysterious secret. Things just taste better when cooked in a cast iron pot or pan which allows you to:
Lodge 12 Inch Skillet
TASTE THE FOOD NOT THE COOKWARE.
Lodge 6 Quart Camping Dutch Oven