by bbrider » Sun Jul 09, 2017 12:32 pm
This goes back to what I have said a 100 times to people over the years, you just never know what people do for fun. I have often shocked people in camp grounds when I pull out one of my Native American flutes and start playing traditional NAF music. Sitting in my lawn chair next to my tent and Harley motorcycle....LOL.
Now I understand camp cooking goes along with camping, regardless of method of camping, and I have always known cast iron cookware is great for campfire cooking. I have never owned or used cast iron and I am the chief cook in my house and when we camp. Camp cooking mostly entails using charcoal in a small smoker pit, something easily packed in our tiny cargo trailer we pull behind the Harley.
Now we are doing more of our camping in the Wee-Go I built thanks to this forum. We pull it with our two door Jeep wrangler. Space for STUFF is still somewhat at a premium. For that reason when I decided a few weeks ago to look into buying a Dutch oven I bought a 10" Lodge camp oven with legs. I watched a lot of videos on cooking in them and thought for two people that would be plenty big enough without taking up to much room. Plus I like the idea of flipping the lid over and using the lid as a griddle for bacon or eggs and such. Grill cheese sandwich? Fried bologna! Two cooking pieces in one!
Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks Bob for the video. It was fun and informative! I made a blackberry cobbler last week in mine, at home, for my first attempt. The recipe was very similar other than I didn't add the soda and I used a small cake pan sitting on mason jar rings to raise the pan in my oven. Only had to really clean the cake pan. Oven just rinsed, dried and re-sprayed before storage. I also put the paper towel I used to wipe down the oven spray inside the oven with fresh paper towels folded and draped over the edge between the lid before it was placed in it's storage bag.
Oh and the cobbler was great! I was a little off on my coal placement with 6 under and 12 over so it took longer to cook than I thought it should....almost 40 minutes. Next time I will try your suggestion of 5/15. I have a HF infrared thermometer gun and used that to check my temperature too...just a last minute thought lol. It confirmed what you said too. I was running between 300 and 325 in temperatures. I added 2 more on top at 30 minutes because it didn't seem to be cooking, that was when I thought about my infrared thermometer lol. I was surprised when I checked it again after 10 minutes to find it was done!
Thinking apple pie next with Pillsbury ready made pie crust top and bottom doing the same method. Just not sure the bottom would get done if I use the cake pan method so I might try the parchment paper. What say you?
Bill
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