If Your Life Is The Pits, Try Fire Pit Cooking

Posted by Doyle Bailey for Cast Iron Cookware Shop

Who does not feel their life is the pits occasionally? It is possible that something as simple as cooking a meal at your campsite or in your back yard could be a solution. Camp cooking can get the endorphins flowing in the brain. These peptides can possibly  help you by trading in “the pits” for a

“fire pit“.

Why Is Fire Pit Cooking Such a Natural Rush? It could be because:

• to build a firepit, if you do not have one, is a fun and easy project for the entire family.
• to cook over a firepit taps in to our pioneer spirit and helps remove the toxins of our lives that may be stuck on fast forward.
• to experiment with panini sandwiches, dog’brat, camp pizza creates lasting memories for all. Your children will tell their children about the experience and hopefully repeat it.
• to share the camp cooking experience is educational and fun for our children
• to eat a meal cooked outdoors is like a “communion service” and the food has a special flavor.
• to follow up the camp meal with s’mores is nostalgic, and notoriously delicious.

Rome Industries has created some innovative and practical products to make your Campfire Firepit Cookout Moments Memorable.

Choose from cast iron bread bakers, hamburger grillers, popcorn makers, square and round pie irons, pizza grillers, and more.

A Firepit Cookout Set includes a S’more Maker, Pie Irons, Hot Dog Roasters Firepit Cookout Set Storage Bags, cast iron waffle makers.

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

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.

• 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:

A 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?

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Cooking Around a Campfire with Cast Iron Cookware and Accessories

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.

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.

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Cast Iron Cookware Will Warm Your Food and Your Family

Posted by Doyle Bailey for The Cast Iron Cookware Shop

Where is the center of warmth in your home? In our home it would have to be the kitchen. My wife and I both enjoy cooking and I do not even mind the clean-up afterward. There is even a special stool where the younger grandchildren stand to help their “Nona” cook.There are rocking chairs in our kitchen for friends to rock and chat with us. There is a lot of warmth and it does not all come from the oven or cook top.

We have a large collection of cast iron cookware and I suppose these grandchildren will teach their children to cook using the same dutch ovens, roasters, skillets, cornbread pans and casseroles.

Sometimes we take the fun and warmth outside to a firepit where we roast hot dogs, marshmallows, S’mores.

Cast iron cookware travels well to the back yard or to your campsite with Waffle Makers, Panini Presses, Pie Irons, Bread Bakers and Dog ‘n Brat Makers.

Bask in the warmth of your kitchen, your backyard fire pit or at your campsite with cast iron cookware and cast iron cookware camping accessories.

Use cast iron cookware and cast iron camping cookware accessories to cook your food, keep it warm with cast iron’s great heat retention and help keep family relationships warm and cozy.

Warm up to family, food and cast iron cookware tonight. It will allow you

TO TASTE THE FOOD AND NOT THE COOKWARE.

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Cast Iron Cookware Shop Offers Camp Cookware and Accessories

Posted by Doyle Bailey for Cast Iron Cookware Shop

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

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

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.

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Cool Cast Iron Camping Cookware & Accessories

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

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

• 

  Camp and Cook In Cast Iron

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Fun Accessories for Cast Iron Camping Cookware

Camping has always been fun for me and my family.  However, it was always camping with a purpose.

For example:

• Camping in Southern Argentina in the (pre-cordillera mountains) of the Andes. Fishing was unbelievable for trout and salmon.
• Camping at  Toledo Bend (between Louisiana and Texas) for bass, white perch and bream fishing.
• Camping with Royal Ambassadors (like Boy Scouts) to teach woodcraft skills.
• Motorcycle Camping with a trip from Louisiana to the Florida keys (3,500 miles round trip) was a blast. I could not have made it without a tube of Boudreaux’s Butt Paste that my wife gave me!
• Backyard camping for fun activities with children and grandchildren. Roasting franks, marshmallows and even popping corn with a campfire is irresistible for children of all ages.

Rome Industries has made available some excellent cast iron camping cookware and accessories to make camping a blast.

CAST IRON CAMP COOKWARE AND ACCESSORIES:

Firepit Cookout Set included a Square and Round Pie Irons for toasty sandwiches and tasty fruit pies.

Color- coded hot dog roasters for the kids and a three compartment S’More Maker for everyone.

A handy Tote is available for your Firepit Cookout Set.

Rome Pie Iron For Toasty Sandwiches or Fruit Pies

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Fun Accessories for Your Cast Iron Cookware Collection

Cast Iron Cookware Shop believes in the need to accessorize when it comes to fun on outdoors cooking or camping trips. This is especially true when you have children with you and you want them to have fun and learn to love cooking outdoors. Check out these fun accessories to get them involved.

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Cast Iron Cookware Shop Offers S’more Fun for Your Outdoor Cooking

This Rome Cookout Set includes one square cast iron Pie Iron, one round cast iron Pie Iron, one S’more Maker and eight hot dog and marshmallow picnic forks. Enjoy these cast iron cookware accessories as the perfect complement for your cast iron camp cookware.

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Who doesn’t want more S’mores? In fact, we usually want one and then s’more! That is why the possibility to make several S’mores at one time is such a good idea. With the Rome S’more maker you can make three at a time. Rome makes a 4 inch wide, space for three, chrome plated steel S’more Maker with a long handle for safety and convenience. The entire Maker measures 29 inches. It is the perfect cast iron camp accessory or for any outdoor cooking. Both kids and grownups will love it. The accessories you will find at the Cast Iron Cookware Shop will complete your camp cookware. Add this camping accessory to your selection of cast iron camping cookware and enjoy.

This handy cookout kit by Rome includes 4 color coded hot dog or marshmallow picnic forks (22 inches in length), two Big Stick Hot Dog Forks (33 in length, including wood handle, two Extension Forks (extend to 32 inches), one Brat and Hot Dog Roaster.

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Cast Iron Cookware Shop and Cooking Over A Campfire

Portable fuel-burning stoves have made things much easier when it comes to camping. Most public camping areas have been picked clean of available wood for a campfire. I can see where portable stoves are useful. However, there’s a certain mystique about cooking over a wood fire while camping that the little stoves can’t begin to approach. Besides is it really camping without the smoke, sometimes in your eyes?

HERE ARE SOME TIPS CONCERNING COOKING OVER A CAMPFIRE;

First, you have to build a fire and let it burn down to a good bed of coals. It is the coals that you want to cook over rather than the fire itself. They produce and ashes and more heat. Also the heat is more consistent and controllable. It is really nice and helps you to control the heat when you use a camping tripod to hang your dutch oven (with a bail), coffee pot or cast iron kettle over the bed of coals.

The densest wood you can find makes the best coals. Oak, cedar, mesquite, pecan, or other hardwoods make good coals, while pines, aspen, and other light woods don’t. Before you attempt to cook, you need to build up at least a couple of inches of live coals and then let the main fire settle down a little.

For fire safety and convenience, dig a fire pit at least 8-10 inches deep and around 2.5 feet square, bigger in both dimensions if you plan on staying a few days or if you plan on having a “bonfire” at night. Keep the dirt you remove from the fire pit to fill in the hole when you break camp.

There are several designs of fire pits. Perhaps the easiest and most convenient is the Keyhole Pit. This pit is dug in the shape of a “keyhole” with a little side chamber out from one edge of the main pit. The main area is used for the fire itself and the side chamber is used for the actual
cooking. The cooking chamber should extend a couple of feet (up wind)
from the main fire and should be about a foot wide and only about 4
inches deep. When you’re ready to start cooking, shovel some
coals from the fire to the side chamber and you are in business.

Some Tips You May Find Useful:

1. Two ways to control your heat are to (1) add or subtract coals
or (2) raise or lower your cooking pots or pans. This is where a tripod is extremely useful. You can use
multiple cooking chambers (cast iron camp dutch ovens have feet to sit on a bed of coals and be stacked to give additional cooking chambers).

2. You can use a small grill over the coals, or you can pre-arrange rocks for the pot to sit on. (not too stable. can tend to “rock and roll”). If you use a grill, it should be easily moved so you can tend the bed of coals.

3. Here is a tip that can save you a lot of “elbow grease”. Make some dinners and wrap them in foil before you leave home. These are pre-packaged meals ready to throw in a coal bed for a few minutes of cooking. You start with some heavy-duty aluminum foil, preferably a double thickness about 2 feet square after folding. Then you lay out a piece of meat (anything from ground round to steak) along with some potatoes and veggies like carrots, onions, or corn and your favorite seasonings. Then fold over the foil and crimp it several times at the seam and at both ends. What you should get is a tightly-wrapped, sealed-off meal inside the foil. Then later, just sprinkle a few coals on the ground and lay the package on top. Then cover with a few coals and wait about fifteen minutes. You can cook baked potatoes the same way but they take a little longer. Remember a FEW coals. A little goes a long way. When you’re through, the fire will eat the foil and all you’ve got to clean is your fork.

4. Aluminum and other shiny cookware gets very dirty over a wood fire and is hard to keep from turning a permanent black. Frankly that is why is much prefer cast iron camping cookware. Here’s a trick to help in that department. Before you put the pot on the fire, make a paste from water and powdered soap. Apply the paste to the bottom and up the sides of the pot. Now start cooking. The soot will all stick on the soap, which washes off very easily when you’re through. Just don’t rub the soap off by sliding the pot around on a grill, etc. On frying pans, you need to come up close to the lip with the paste. Just don’t get any where it will fall into the food.

5. If you are car camper, try using a Dutch oven for baking or like a crock pot for stews and such. A true Dutch oven is a cast iron pot with three legs about an inch or two long, and a lid with a lip around the outer edge. Pots with no legs and no lip on the top are called ranch ovens and they are just regular cast iron cookware. You set them on a shallow bed of coals and then sprinkle more coals on the lid. Just like the foil dinners, you should take it easy on the number of coals you use both underneath and on top. In addition to stews or casseroles, you can bake biscuits or cobblers that always taste better outdoors.

6. Here’s a tip for the care and maintenance of your Dutch oven or any cast iron cookware. After washing, dry immediately. Then use a paper towel to wipe on a thin layer of vegetable oil (no animal fats) inside and out. Then put on the fire (or in a hot oven) for 4-5 minutes. This will cause the oil to glaze and bond to the iron, protecting it from rust and other bad things.

7. For fire safety, you should keep your shovel stuck in the pile of dirt removed from the fire pit. A little folding camp shovel works fine. Also you can keep several buckets of wash water for the next meal near the fire pit as well. When you are ready to leave, police the area for trash and throw that into the pit. Then, drown the fire and fill in the fire pit. Remember, a good camper “leaves no trace”.

Hopefully some of the ideas will be of use to you as you cook over your camp fire or fire pit. Enjoy the great outdoors or your great back yard and remember:

CAST IRON COOKWARE ALLOWS YOU TO TASTE THE FOOD AND NOT THE COOKWARE.

For really fun things to do with your campfire, get a Rome Industries Firepit Cookout set. Make tasty sandwiches or fruit pies with your pie irons, roast dogs or marshmallows with the handy hot dog roasters or make s’mores, everyone’s favorite. Rome make campfires more fun for you and your family.

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