Dutch Oven Basics for Beginners
Dutch Oven Basics for Beginners from Mountain Mom and Tots.
New to Dutch Oven Cooking? This video shares the basics so you can cook delicious food over the coals. It's part of our camp cooking video series - check them all out!
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Mountain Mom
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Great video! And thanks for being concise and to the point! No fluff! Others would say the exact same thing but somehow turn it into a 30 min video!
Thank you for all the tips and taking the time to put together this video!
good seein the kids out and about in nature, good job parents.
Thank you for this easy to follow video. Perfect! 💞
I’ve been using a Dutch oven for years. Ever since cub scouts. This video covers all the things you need to get you started. Good job!
Really good video! Thanks for making this video. I have been cooking in cast iron skillets for years but just bought a dutch oven to use for camping. I love using the charcoal much better than wood.
Great video, subscribed. Well done, got to the point--good information. Wonderful presentation, you're very likeable and articulate. Looking forward to more videos.
Just a note of precaution, when using these ovens outdoors be very cautious about placing a perimeter where you will be using it, especially if little ones are present. Hot coals can cause nasty little burns, on feet or hands and sometimes we can get distracted and accidentally step or touch. Keep little ones away and have safety enclosure such as big rocks or something for the enclosure. Happy camping!! 😊😃
There is no teacher like experience. You can tell kids something is hot and will burn and even try to keep them away At some point they are going to touch a hot something and get burned. Life lesson learned.
Enjoyable and informative thank you
Thank you so much for this!!!
You gave great advice with this video!
Perfect length and great information. Thanks, happy Halloween!
Awesome video, straight to the point, cant wait to try ours out!
Let me know how it goes!
Great video!
Great videos! Very cool! THANK YOU!
Wow, what a great video! I have used cast iron cooking and still can learn a trick or two. So good, thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much!
good info for sure
What a great video 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Glad you liked it!!
Just bought a Dutch oven, giving it first test on wildcamp this Friday over my portable fire pit. Great tips, great vid thanks. ATB
Let me know how it goes!
@@MountainMomTots It will appear in my new vid, cheers 👍
Thank you
Very well interesting. Would like to know about the tool she used to turn the lid &suggestions for heat mittens.
Very good help thank you
You're welcome!
After cleaning my cast iron cookware, I make sure it is dry and then coat it with coconut oil. Not too much. It will help to prevent rust formation.
Thanks
Great video! Thank you for sharing your expertise :)
Of course
Thank you! Subbed 👍
Thanks for the sub and welcome
Very informative tips. Thanks for sharing.
Of course!
Those are some really great tips. Nice job.
Thanks. Dutch oven cooking can be really tasty
I know this was posted a while ago but what is the recipe you're making at 3:03 it looks good. We just got our first cast iron set with a dutch oven, trying to figure out some good gluten free recipes.
Nice video
Thanks for the video; you indeed covered the basics. I would mention though that any soap used on cast iron should be a very last resort. The green plastic scubbies work well also to remove stubborn food without damaging the seasoning too badly. Take care and thanks again!
Yes! Those green scrubbers are really good for Dutch oven cleaning
Nice video, I really enjoyed it.
Thanks Dan
Congratulations for the video! I have a similar dutch oven (without legs) and here is my qustion: Is it safe to place the cold dutch oven in a preheated gas BBQ at 350 °F? Because of temperature difference, is there any possibility of cracking? So far, I used to warm it a little bit before place it on. Thanks in advance!
You can but the cast iron takes awhile to heat up before the food starts to cook if you leave the lid on. Best to preheat if using the lid.
Do you have a link to the stand your dutch oven is sitting on?
May i add one for cleaning: put water and soap in it, bring it to boiling point, wait for it to cool down to lukewarm and clean all leftovers out with a sponge or brush. That way you´ll easily get any burnt in leftovers away, without damaging your coating. Because, like the lovely lady here said, you please DO NOT USE any metal tools for cleaining your dutch oven! Otherwise: great video, that is how you get beginners into the art of cooking with a dutch oven! It´s not a fast food way, this one gathers people around and you cherish the food much more, than just ordering and have it ready within a minute!
Wath a helping video
When we went camping back in the day Dutch Ovens caused many a skirmish
those colored ones are called creuset standard castiron pan but we normally use gas electric or microwave ovens but NOdutchoven but they look nice it are stewpan so funny to see amaricanized names like mini pancakes ,poffertjes, dutch babypancakes non existing, nowadays we use castiron woks
Hello from Germany🤜🤛. Cool 🥘🔥👍👍👍. Ps. Do you also cook in Dutch Oven? I have a lot of Dutch Oven🥘🔥👍 recipes and more will be shown. Recipes - from regions of Germany, Russia and Asia. Greetings Waldi🤝
I do cook in a dutch oven. I'll have to check out your recipes!
Nice video. But would like to correct you on a point. Some points that others may not know as well. "Dutch" oven is a common name, as that is the name of the oven/furnace that was used to make your cast iron pot. A "Dutch" oven has no legs, flat base and a domed lid with drippers for self basting and generally hangs above a fire or coals. What you are using is a "Camp" oven, it has legs to sit on coals with a relatively flat lid with a higher lip around the circumference to hold coals when placed on the top. A "Bedouri" is yet another cast iron 'dutch' / 'camp' oven as well. Not picking on you but thought it would be nice if people knew the difference.
Actually Cobber, In American usage, they're all dutch ovens because it was Dutch traders who sold the first ones to the colonists even before the Revolution. So we coined the generic term about 300 years ago.. If you brought a Bedourie oven to the US, we'd say, ''Oh look, an Australian steel dutch oven.'' Casserole LeCreuset = French dutch oven. A Dutch ,,Braadpan'' = Dutch oven. It was the Patriot silversmith Paul Revere who added the 3 legs and rimmed lid to the dutch oven, which you insist is a . Here we call those dutch ovens, too. Best tool for handling them is the aluminum Boy Scout Dutch Oven Pliers, with 30* angled jaws and a bale hook on one handle end.
Lodge makes a cast iron cleaning kit.
Where did you get the stand you show the Dutch oven sitting on in your video?
Did you get an answer?
You need to learn your clockwise from counter clockwise. You turned the pot and lid the same direction.
With legs it's called a camp dutch oven. Without legs it's called a dutch oven. I bought the camp dutch oven and use it inside. I have a gas range and the legs are able to fit in between the grates, same in the oven; legs fit in between the oven rack wires.
Smart! I do the same in the oven, or I move the oven rack lower (so the whole thing fits) and put the camp dutch oven on a cookie sheet to cook in the oven.
I too use my camp ovens in home on a cookie sheet!! Works great, and makes the camp ovens so versitile! I just love em! Lodge makes great products!
Thank you. Would you clarify the "lid turning clockwise/counter clock-wise" part?
This prevents hot spots!
Sorry it took me so long to respond. Basically you want to rotate the pot and the lid a little bit in different directions while cooking (every 10 to 15 minutes or so) so that the coals heat the food inside in a more well-rounded way. If you don't rotate the pot and the lid, the food will still cook, but there might be burned spots or hot areas.
So if my cast iron dutch oven has legs I can’t use it on my electric stove burners??
Sorry I'm just getting to this. If your dutch oven has legs you could still use it in a regular oven and have the legs poke down through the oven rack, but if the main base of the pot doesn't touch the burner of the stovetop, it won't likely cook well. So no. I would use a different pot on your electric stovetop.
I cooked soup or tried to in my lodge Dutch oven and even though it was the 3 rd time seasoning and cooking it ; it still left greenish black gunk in my soup. I am ready to give up.
All my meat and soup had this repulsive tinge;
Can I use baking soda to remove the rust?
Yes
Please help! When i use my Dutch oven to make beans, soup, etc, yhey have a funny taste
Why aren't they called Netherland ovens?
Ha! I don't know. I suppose it should just be called cast iron cooking instead.
Because in pre-Independence America, they were sold to the colonists by traders from Germany or the Netherlands who spoke ''Dutch'' meaning Deutsch. It was never clear what country they came from, but their product was well liked.
bravo
I’m confused, you said rotate the oven clockwise and the lid counterclockwise, but in the video you rotated BOTH clockwise
That was probably just a filming or editing mistake on my part. The important thing is to rotate the lid and the base to prevent hot spots when cooking.
@@MountainMomTots Ok thanks. So direction is not critical just the rotation itself?
DUTCHOVENS??????🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪we do not call them oven just a pot but your vid is aheel erg mooi, very nice, when you visit the NETHERLANDS PASS BY👍
We call this kind a “camp oven” when it has feet and a flat top. We call them dutch ovens when the bottom is flat and the lid is rounded.
That makes a lot of sense! I've always just called them both dutch ovens. Now I know, thanks
@@MountainMomTots I always call the ones with feet and flat top a Camp Dutch Oven.
New chic
You rotated the oven and the lid in the same direction
You should never put coal's under your Dutch oven you should put a ring around the trivet
Why is that?
Hardwood lump or go home
Gosh, I burned my pancake watching this interesting video.
Oh no! I hope you were able to make another delicious pancake to replace it.
Use a plastic putty knife I use mine daily
I've had nothing but the worst luck with those Kroger coals.
Really? Have you used a chimney? That really helps. I havent tried many different kids of charcoal but I didn't notice any significant slow lighting or burning with generic coals - I usually just buy the cheapest brand
@@MountainMomTots I tried for three hours to get it to light in a chimney. It's possible that I got a bad batch. Compared to a regular smooth piece of coal, these were all jagged like they had been exposed to moisture or had been burned before. I put in the Kingsford and immediately set about preheating my oven. Look at the most recent video on my channel where I cooked curry in a Lodge 14' and I compared the two.
Never ever use cooking spray!!
Why not? It seems to work fine. What do you use instead?
Linseed oil.
There’s no linseed oil in cooking spray. It’s canola oil. Some of the new stuff is olive oil.
Cooking spray is like poison for your cookware. Linseed or flax seed oil.
@jason obviously.
REMEMBER NO DISH WASHER !!!!!!
Boiling foods in your Dutch oven is very bad for your so is tomato-based products
Yes, I have heard the acidic nature of tomatoes can damage the metal. Basically I'm a lazy dutch oven chef and don't mind taking the risk of boiling or cooking with tomatoes since the worst that would happen would be that I'd have to reseason the pot. I'd rather just make food I know my family will eat and not worry about the cookware too much.
Don’t use soap, don’t need it you will taste it later
No you won’t, if you clean and then reseason properly. Soap doesn’t hurt cast iron unless it has lye. If you taste soap, you just need to rinse your cast iron more.
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ur too cute
My grandmother never had plastic. nor did my mother. Are you just trying to scare people ?
this is sooo funny ...im dutch hhahahah and the usa call a kettEl casT irron a DUTCH OVEN????? HHHAHAHAHAHAH
Can you just get to the point?
She has quite the gut, doesn't she?
Found the 12 year old!
Thank you