Author Topic: Dutch Oven coming today! (Read 2188 times)

AtlLaw · « **on:** June 22, 2010, 07:38:14 AM »

I just checked the tracking number and it went out for delivery to my house today!

After looking around a bit I couldn't find the style Dutch Oven I wanted locally, so I ordered one online from Target. The price wasn't out of line for a new Lodge brand, and they had free shipping!

So I bought a 6 qt. It should have a diameter around 12 inches or so like the 8 qt. does, but it isn't as deep. Naturally it has the lip on the lid and 3 legs.

A Club brother's wife also ordered me a "cast iron cookbook" from her book club, but first, after I re-season this bad boy, Ima gonna try Dee's bisquet recipe!

Whoda ever thunk that I would reach a stage in my life where happiness could come in the form of a dutch oven... $:-\$

eye shot · « **Reply #1 on:** June 22, 2010, 12:39:24 PM »

You'll get spoiled real quick and if you got a cast fry pan to go with it. You'll pitch all that teflon stuff!

mechanic · « **Reply #2 on:** June 22, 2010, 01:19:22 PM »

Cast is about all we use around here. I've got skillets from 4" to 24". I can fry 2 dozen eggs at once! The only problem is me and sweet thang can't eat that many at once.

AtlLaw · « **Reply #3 on:** June 22, 2010, 05:39:31 PM »

Quote from: eye shot on June 22, 2010, 12:39:24 PM

You'll get spoiled real quick and if you got a cast fry pan to go with it. You'll pitch all that teflon stuff!

Oh I been cookin with cast iron since I was a kid. Just never owned a dutch oven myself. $:-\$ I was in the military in the early 60's when my folks sold the "home place" and moved to Florida. They left all the "old junk," iron ware and other stuff that would be worth a fortune now, in the house and barn and sold it all in one package.

I love my DO!

Saturday morning is bisquet time!

Drilling Man · « **Reply #4 on:** June 22, 2010, 06:05:07 PM »

I've been cooking on and off with CI since i was a small kid, in fact i'm STILL cooking on much of the same CI, as i have all of my mom and dad's CI.

I do have several CI dutch ovens too, and i still enjoy using them... I bet you will love your's too!

DM

big_bore · « **Reply #5 on:** July 17, 2010, 06:24:34 PM »

Cast Iron FTW! I've been using CI for 30+ years now, and I've still got my originals and my wife's mother's originals.

Best way I found to mother them good is to fill `em with whatever oil you prefer and deep fry some stuff in them. Once mothered well, you have a better surface than any non-stick johnny-come-lately pan. As you well know, clean them only with water and a stiff brush.

I've got a 20 qt (non-legged) dutch oven that I use for oven fried chicken on the grill that just can't be beat when feeding huge family get-togethers.

Enjoy your new dutch oven now, and for decades to come.

Cornbelt · « **Reply #6 on:** August 02, 2010, 03:33:27 PM »

You might not have to ever wash it. Just get boxer. Ours keeps the cast iron stuff polished up ever so nice.

AtlLaw · « **Reply #7 on:** August 02, 2010, 03:42:15 PM »

Quote from: Cornbelt on August 02, 2010, 03:33:27 PM

Just get boxer. Ours keeps the cast iron stuff polished up ever so nice.

Huh?

What dat "boxer" is?

Drilling Man · « **Reply #8 on:** August 02, 2010, 03:52:30 PM »

Quote from: AtlLaw on August 02, 2010, 03:42:15 PM

Quote from: Cornbelt on August 02, 2010, 03:33:27 PM
Just get boxer. Ours keeps the cast iron stuff polished up ever so nice.

Huh? What dat "boxer" is?

woof...woof... lol

DM

AtlLaw · « **Reply #9 on:** August 02, 2010, 03:57:44 PM »

AH! SO!

I get it!

I got a Great Piernese that'll do the same thing!

But I haven't even used mine yet...

blind ear · « **Reply #10 on:** August 03, 2010, 12:53:22 AM »

Might make me want to wash the seasoning off my cast iron. (hot water and soap?) eddiegjr

powderman · « **Reply #11 on:** August 03, 2010, 12:57:07 PM »

ATLAW. We have nothing but cast iron skillets and a 6 qt dutch oven. We used to use the do on the old wood stove when we still had it. Cooked many a pot of beans, chile, soups, stews, roasts, etc in it. We have never baked in it but would like to try it. Seems like bread or biscuits would stick without a bit of oil. Please post and tell how your biscuits turn out, and how you did it. POWDERMAN.

mechanic · « **Reply #12 on:** August 03, 2010, 01:07:47 PM »

Sorta like the old guy that stated that coldwater was all he used to wash dishs. Coldwater was his hound.....

AtlLaw · « **Reply #13 on:** August 03, 2010, 03:04:31 PM »

Quote from: powderman on August 03, 2010, 12:57:07 PM

Please post and tell how your biscuits turn out, and how you did it.

Shoot P'man, I'm not the person to ask about bisquits! Look back a ways in the forum. We had a long discussion on making busquits and Dee talked about his DO experience. He's the one you need to ask about that!

Lemme see if I can find that thread... $:-\$

AtlLaw · « **Reply #14 on:** August 03, 2010, 03:10:16 PM »

Well DUH!!

You were the one who started that thread!

Nevermind...

I'll let you know what happens...

powderman · « **Reply #15 on:** August 04, 2010, 03:12:41 PM »

ATLAW. HEH, I know how to make them but I thought you said YOU were going to bake biscuits in a DO, I just wanted to know how they turn out and how you did it. I believe I could bake bread in the DO just setting it out in the yard, it was 106 an hour ago. Maybe Dee will pop in and tell a bit more about baking bread and biscuits in the DO. POWDERMAN.

FourBee · « **Reply #16 on:** November 08, 2010, 06:00:20 PM »

AtlLaw; your hankerin for a Lodge Dutch Oven finally got me curious as to what I had stored up in the loft of my shop. I hadn't done any cookin with one of them in years. Well sure nuff what I have is Lodge cookware. Lately you'll find me and the wife sittin around the camp fire tending to another great meal.

p.s. now look what I got myself into........related topic in woodwork re: Picnic Table -what next -

AtlLaw · « **Reply #17 on:** November 09, 2010, 04:35:03 AM »

4B, you're my hero!

Would you believe I still haven't used my DO!?

I was going to... $:-\$ I found a recipe I wanted to try, but I ended up fixing it in a Piella pot in the oven.

Soon though... soon!

subdjoe · « **Reply #18 on:** November 09, 2010, 06:29:03 AM »

Quote from: AtlLaw on November 09, 2010, 04:35:03 AM

4B, you're my hero! Would you believe I still haven't used my DO!? I was going to... $:-\$ I found a recipe I wanted to try, but I ended up fixing it in a Piella pot in the oven.

Soon though... soon!

Gettin' on towards fireplace weather. You can use your DO in there. (think about it...fire, coals, a nice flat space)

AtlLaw · « **Reply #19 on:** November 09, 2010, 10:23:58 AM »

Someone mentioned that before and I thought it was a pretty good idea!

My wife even agreed with me... when she saw it got me to clean out the fireplace!

Just haven't done it though... $:-\$

FourBee · « **Reply #20 on:** November 09, 2010, 02:09:22 PM »

Quote from: subdjoe on November 09, 2010, 06:29:03 AM

Quote from: AtlLaw on November 09, 2010, 04:35:03 AM
4B, you're my hero! Would you believe I still haven't used my DO!? I was going to... $:-\$ I found a recipe I wanted to try, but I ended up fixing it in a Piella pot in the oven.

Soon though... soon!

Gettin' on towards fireplace weather. You can use your DO in there. (think about it...fire, coals, a nice flat space)

If it ain't windy, I can handle a little chilly weather. I like watching those big logs burn.

Hodr · « **Reply #21 on:** November 10, 2010, 03:34:06 AM »

Atlaw
Try finding a Boy Scout competition in cooking. Those kids turn out great meals using dutch ovens and will fall all over themselves showing off. You will find they have recipes for things you never thought you could make in a dutch oven. If you don't watch out though they will use you as a judge in the competition. This is a no bull setup, the kids train at home but when they hit the campsite, they must do it all without adult help. My wife and I taught a lot of kids to cook, we also taught them how to clean up, do dishes, sanitation and responsibility.

blindhari

AtlLaw · « **Reply #22 on:** November 10, 2010, 04:03:42 AM »

Another great idea from the world of GBO!

I think I'll check around and see if we have any such goins-on in this area. To bad I don't like kids... $:-\$

Hodr · « **Reply #23 on:** November 10, 2010, 07:51:09 AM »

Atlaw
They don"t stay kids. Right now there is a Career Army Sgt. in the sand box. Riding in the top of his left boot is a Gerber Mk 1. I bought that blade at Benning back when Gerber started making them. We helped train him for Search and Rescue with the Sheriffs Explorer Post. We tried to help by teaching the mundane things, cooking, field sanitation, tracking, unit coordination, radio communictions, first aid, responsibilty and leadership. He has turned down Warrant Officer training and a shot at OCS. He will have twenty years in by his 39th birthday. He came back to tell us thank you, when he was a three striper. Out of those we trained there are now 18 men and women we know of in the service, 2 fire fighters, three cops, 6 (I think) in education, 1 makes movies, and four or maybe 5 professional chefs. Not too shabby for the small amount of time we invested. Oh yeah, 11 scouts in our sons boy scout troop made Eagle when we were active, one of them was our son.

blindhari
Just remembered one went Air Force as medical tech., came back after first burst went to UC Berkley, reenlisted as 1st Lt, Air Force, Registered Nurse the day he got his degree. Smartest kid in the bunch.

AtlLaw · « **Reply #24 on:** November 10, 2010, 08:01:30 AM »

Quote from: blindhari on November 10, 2010, 07:51:09 AM

They don"t stay kids.

That's the good part about them... some of them actually turn human!

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Gerber Mk 1. I bought that blade at Benning back when Gerber started making them.

I always though that had to be the best fighting knife ever designed! I looked at (drooled over) them in the PX when they came out but never bought one for some reason. $:-\$ Can't for the life of me remember why... I really wanted one.