Trying bread in the Dutch Oven

[Kent R]

Getting some practice before our trips in 2019

 

[Captain Chaos]

I was just watching some videos on this last night. I do not normally carry a Dutch oven with me, but I am still interested in learning how.

 

[Kent R]

I was just watching some videos on this last night. I do not normally carry a Dutch oven with me, but I am still interested in learning how.

Ive had the 12 for a long time and my wife just got me the 8 for my birthday. Now that we are going to have a trailer I will be bringing the 8. Ill post in a bit how it comes out.

 

[Captain Chaos]

I have a Griswold 8 Dutch oven I’m working on right now. I had to run it through the self clean function on the oven yesterday so I can start over. I have a decent collection of cast, most of it is no name.

 

[overland_squirrel]

Did this for the first time on our last trip. Made cornbread and biscuits and gravy. It’s hard to get the heat right but once you do...damn, it’s good

 

[Kent R]

I learned a long time ago about he 12" heat but this 8" is tough, work in progress

 

[Kent R]

Well the small 8" oven worked the best it was actually easy to adjust the heat and the bread turned out perfect. This is going to be a huge hit on trips.



The 12" worked ok but I think it was just to big for the size of the loaf and I needed to add way more coals than what I thought.

 

[greydog]

Looks pretty good to me!!!

 

[Kent R]

One last one I promise! I am hooked on the 8" 2qt Dutch Oven it is perfect for two people. Way easier to control the heat than the 12"

 

[jim lee]

I'd think controlling the temperature would be really tough! Your outside air temp is a big variable and there is a big area of heat conducting cast iron on the sides. I'm always amazed that people can get this to work at all.

-jim lee

 

[Kent R]

I'd think controlling the temperature would be really tough! Your outside air temp is a big variable and there is a big area of heat conducting cast iron on the sides. I'm always amazed that people can get this to work at all.

-jim lee

You are sure right on that one, I did one loaf in the 12" and three in the 8". There are so many variables to keeping the heat correct, the wind came up and changed everything. Lots of fun to practice though.

 

[greydog]

Try digging a hole just deep enough to sit the dutch oven in and slightly larger than its diameter and then coals in the hole and some on top and see how that works . It is how I have made biscuits
for years it wont take long so the first time might be a wash but keep trying and you will get the timing down pretty fast.

 

[greydog]

You can make a pretty good wild raspberry cobbler at camp that way !

 

[Jedi]

Cobbler, pizza, bread... there is so much good stuff that comes from a dutch oven.

 

[greydog]

The possibilities are endless!!

 

[Smileyshaun]

I've just started using mine more and more after I learned I could flip the lid over and set it on some coals and use it for a skillet of sorts . Not that I need a reason to buy more gear but this set up looks very versital , paired up with a jet boil my camp cooking gear is way more compact now

https://shop.lodgemfg.com/cook-it-all/

 

[Smileyshaun]

And I skipped breakfast by accident so looking at deliciously fresh baked bread pictures is not helping LOL

 

[Ragman]

Kent R- that is some excellent looking bread! I normally have one or two with me on every outing but use the 8 inch the most. It holds one box of Jiffy cornbread perfectly. I find that keeping the heat on the bottom lower as the bottom burning is the biggest risk in my mind.

If you have never watched the Kent Rollins videos definitely check those out.

 

[Captain Chaos]

Kent R- that is some excellent looking bread! I normally have one or two with me on every outing but use the 8 inch the most. It holds one box of Jiffy cornbread perfectly. I find that keeping the heat on the bottom lower as the bottom burning is the biggest risk in my mind.

If you have never watched the Kent Rollins videos definitely check those out.

I like Kent Rollins. I have been watching his videos with my wife for a couple weeks now.

 

[overland_squirrel]

I've just started using mine more and more after I learned I could flip the lid over and set it on some coals and use it for a skillet of sorts . Not that I need a reason to buy more gear but this set up looks very versital , paired up with a jet boil my camp cooking gear is way more compact now

https://shop.lodgemfg.com/cook-it-all/

Wife just had this under the tree for me. I’ll be out in a couple of days, can’t wait to use it.