Lodge Logic L10C03 4 Qt. Cast Iron Camping Dutch Oven

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Cook In Cast Iron Tonight on Your Firepit or When You Camp

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.

Camping is Cool/ Cast Iron Cookware is Hot

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

Cook In Cast Iron Tonight or When You Camp

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

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

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?

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.

fry pans,dutch oven, griddle

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.

Lodge Cornbread Wedge Pan

Lodge Red Enamel Casserole

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How to Properly Store Cast Iron Cookware

First a confession. As a Harley rider, I do not really like the idea of storing a bike nor of transporting it on a trailer. Reality suggests that at times both must be done.

Likewise the idea of cast iron cookware being put aside in storage is not my favorite image.  Cast iron is best when it is used every day. Using it properly and cleaning it correctly keeps it in peak condition and allows it to build up the best seasoning and patina. However if it must be stored, here are some things you might want to consider:

• place a layer of paper towels or a cloth if you prefer on the shelf
• turn the cookware upside down to store
• make sure air can circulate around your cast iron cookware
• do not place the lids on the dutch oven or  frying pan. Cast iron needs to have ample circulation of air and the lids will lock in air and will cause the baked in oil to become rancid.
• never store food in your cast iron cookware.


Lodge Cornbread Wedge Pan



Our Cast Iron Cookware

When you are ready to use your cast iron cookware again, and hopefully that will be soon, you will want to:

• rinse your cookware with warm, non-soapy water (never in a dishwasher!) Soap will remove the seasoning from your cookware.
• dry carefully with a clean cloth or paper towels

Cast iron cookware is a joy to use and can make the most modest cook seem like a professional chef. It retains and distributes heat in a remarkable fashion and is a great nonstick cooking surface.

Lodge Cast Iron Dutch Oven

This cast iron cookware would love to live at your house:

Lodge 10 1/4 Inch Skillet/ Fry Pan

Cast Iron Fajita Skillet

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

HOW TO ROAST ANY VEGETABLE

To me, when it comes to cooking or anything else for that matter, simplicity is the operative word. Take for instance some cauliflower.  What could be more simple than to slip a cast iron casserole into the oven for a simple olive-oil-topped roast?

Cast Iron Enamel Casserole/Grill Pan Lid

Why not find some fresh vegetables to roast from your local market or backyard garden?

Here is a simple formula (thanks to Sara Kate Gillingham-Ryan) to start with when thinking about roasting vegetables. Practice and be creative with your veggies. I think there are two ways to be creative.

One, come up with something no one has done before. That is difficult and few can do it.

Two, use familiar ingredients and procedures in a different combinations. This is easier and we all can do it.

How to Roast Any Vegetable:

Pre-heat oven to 425°F
Chop or break up vegetables, or roast them whole. The larger the piece, the longer it will take to cook.
Place in an oven-safe skillet or cast-iron pan, or a roasting pan. Have neither? Make a boat out of aluminum foil. Whichever you use, tent the top with foil.
Drizzle with a spoonful or two of olive oil, just enough to very lightly coat when tossed. Toss.
In general, the harder (to the touch) the vegetable, and larger in size, the longer it takes to roast. Whole beets can take an hour or more, while asparagus will roast up in about 10 minutes and doesn’t need the tenting.
Test to see if done by pricking with the tip of a paring knife. Knife should pull out easily. Also notice the aroma becoming rich and even listen for sounds from the oven.
For a crispy finish, remove when you have 5-10 minutes left.
Serve with a light shower of sea salt or sprinkle nuts (whole, chopped or ground), breadcrumbs, or grated cheese (like Parmesan) on top.
Don’t be afraid to experiment: while the classics like potatoes, squash, beets and carrots are always good, try branching out with cabbage, fennel, leeks, even fruit like grapes, oranges, quince. Be creative but remember simple things usually are the tastiest.

Cauliflower Roasted

Cast iron Enamel Red Roaster/ Grill Pan Lid

Happy roasting.

Cast Iron Cookware Shop Celebrates Cast Iron Skillets

Made in the USA, this pre-seasoned cast iron skillet is ready to use. Just rinse and cook. This Lodge 8 inch skillet is perfect. Perfect for a 2-egg omelet in the morning, or veggie saute for dinner. Perfect for one or two servings of potatoes. Perfect for a great grilled cheese sandwich. Perfect for a college student who wants to cook up a quick snack. This cast iron skillet is ideal for it can be lifted easily. There is nothing like Lodge cast iron cookware for making cornbread. It holds heat much better than the thin non-stick pans so the heat distribution is consistent. It heats slowly and evenly. The Lodge Logic skillet is easy to clean. Just use a little hot water and and nylon scrubber. Coat your cast iron frying pan with a little oil when cleaned and dried and it is ready for the next use. The skillet will get better every time you use it. Why bother with expensive wedding registries? The best gift for the new bride is a Lodge Cast Iron Skillet and Dutch Oven. She’ll hand it down to the her children and remember you for giving the wedding gift that is a must have for every kitchen. The pre-seasoned skillet is coated with a vegetable oil formula and ready for immediate use right out of the box. The two pouring lips allow you to drain fat and the loop in the handle allows you to hang your cast iron over your kitchen island. Lodge’s logo is featured on the bottom and the cast iron fry pan comes complete with care instructions and a lifetime warranty.

Lodge 8 Inch Skillet

Made in the USA, the pre-seasoned cast iron skillet is ready to use. Just rinse and cook. This Lodge 12 inch skillet is perfect for breakfast, lunch and dinner, perfect for kitchen as well as any outdoor cooking, whether for campfire or backyard grill. And perfect for a family get-together or large group.This cast iron skillet has an additional grip handle to aid in safe lifting. There is nothing like Lodge cast iron cookware for making cornbread. It holds heat much better than the thin non-stick pans so the heat distribution is consistent. It heats slowly and evenly. The Lodge Logic skillet is easy to clean. Just use a little hot water and and nylon scrubber. Coat your cast iron frying pan with a little oil when cleaned and dried and it is ready for the next use. The skillet will get better every time you use it. Why bother with expensive wedding registries? The best gift for the new bride is a Lodge Cast Iron Skillet and Dutch Oven. She’ll hand it down to the her children and remember you for giving the wedding gift that is a must have for every kitchen. The pre-seasoned skillet is coated with a vegetable oil formula and ready for immediate use right out of the box. The two pouring lips allow you to drain fat and the loop in the handle allows you to hang your cast iron over your kitchen island. Lodge’s logo is featured on the bottom and the cast iron frying pan comes complete with care instructions and a lifetime warranty.

Lodge 12 Inch Skillet

TASTE THE FOOD NOT THE COOKWARE

Cast Iron Cookware On Recognizing A Yes Moment

One of the important lessons of life is knowing when and how to say “yes” and when and how to say “no“. Sometimes when we are at our busiest there are “yes moments” we should not miss. There are also times when we should say “no“.  When there is a clearly identifiable “yes moment” in your life, consider the benefits and the consequences of giving yourself the green light.

Family therapist Terri L. Orbuch, PhD. mentions three occasions when you should give yourself a green light. Here are her three things and I totally agree.

1. When It’s Your Passion. She affirms: “Agreeing to something that moves you feeds your personal energy reserve. It a guaranteed good time”.

2. When It Boosts Personal Bonds.

3. When It Sets A Good Example.

Let me see if there can be some application to cast iron cookware.

1. Cast Iron Cookware is certainly a passion for me and for many others. In Dr. Orbuch’s words, it “feeds my personal energy reserve“. I have a good time talking about, studying about its history, buying it and most of all cooking with it. To my way of thinking, you would be wise to give yourself a green light to do any or all of these things.

2. When my wife and business partner suggested we add cast iron cookware to our product line, it was a “yes moment” for both of us and has been good for our relationship and the business.

3. It sets a good example to use cast iron cookware. Using this cookware models good behavior for our families. It keeps potentially harmful substances out of our food, saves energy, is environmentally friendly, and allows you to “taste the food and not the cookware“.

Do not allow people to manipulate you into saying “yes” when you really want to say “no”. But by all means learn when to say “yes” when even at your busiest there are “yes moments we shouldn’t miss“.

This 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. The fry pan is 10 1/4 inches in diameter and 3inches deep. This multi-use cooker is a dutch oven, saute pan and fryer, all in one. This cast iron combo set is a great gift for your family members who are just starting their cast iron kitchen ware. You will be happy you said “yes to this Lodge cast iron combo cooker.”

Lodge Combo Cooker

Lodge’s BBQ GRILL-GRATE grills those vegetables AND holds them on the grill. There is no “veggie escape” into the coals. It also holds those delicate fish in place. This cast iron grill cooks your steaks, sausage, bacon and other meats evenly without flame damage. It is great for camping and grilling on the beach.

Lodge BBQ Grill/Grate

Cast Iron Cookware can help you recognize a “yes moment” and go with a green light to begin or add to your collection of cast iron cookware.