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Probably a silly question but

Can you use a dutch oven in the oven in place of coals?

YES! If it is the legged variety DO I would put in on a baking sheet for stability purposes though.

Barbara

What Barbara said...except mine seems to have its legs in exactly the right spots that they slide conveniently through the oven grate, so I never bothered using a pan under it.

I've used the lid of mine on my stovetop, too, as a griddle.

Jst83 wrote:Probably a silly question but

Can you use a dutch oven in the oven in place of coals?

I have a non-camp style Dutch oven I use in the oven to experiment with recipes. When one works ok, I then try it in a camp Dutch oven. This is how I developed the zucchini bread recipe.

Mike
Hayden Lake, ID

Gaelen wrote:What Barbara said...except mine seems to have its legs in exactly the right spots that they slide conveniently through the oven grate, so I never bothered using a pan under it.

ditto for me. works great
Eunice

Cast Iron can be used for almost any cooling application, be it camp fire, BBq briquette's, stove top or ovens...

Dale

Yes it works, Ummmm
Now to try it with coals at the gathering weekend after next

okay, Jst83, it looks great...so what's in it and how did it taste?

simple apple cobbler desert, 2 cans of pie filling a box of yellow cake mix cinnamon sprinkled on and a can of 7-up poured on top. It was great, I was really amazed with such simple ingredients that it would taste so good

My Griswold DO has no legs, and it is wonderful in the oven. Great for slow roasting a big chunk of meat.

G

The legs of mine go right between the racks and it sits level. I've done the cobbler and a Hamburger baked bean thingy
Can't wait till next weekend to try it with coals .
One week from today I'll be camping

I use my Camp DO in the house all the time! We have a Gas Stove with sealed burners so I remove the cooking grate and rest the pot on the stove top over the burner. Also, when I bake something in the oven I leave the lid off. I have heard that when using Aluminum Foil to cover a dish you must increase the heat by 75 American degree to get the same heat. I would imagine a cast iron lid would have a greater effect and would slow down cooking drastically. The other problem is the dish does not dry out as it should.

Randy

I cut the legs of of a new DO a long time ago and cook everything in it in the oven and on the stove. Makes a great deep pot on the stove! It's my favorite pot to cook with along with my cast iron frying pans. And cleanup is usually pretty easy, too.

sunny16 wrote:I cut the legs of of a new DO a long time ago and cook everything in it in the oven and on the stove. Makes a great deep pot on the stove! It's my favorite pot to cook with along with my cast iron frying pans. And cleanup is usually pretty easy, too.

I cook with a DO group next door in Texas and only a couple of those folks have DO's with legs. They make a DO stand out of Horse Shoes by welding the tips of three of them together and adding a short leg at the loop. One guy uses two horseshoe stands under his large griddle and cooks on coals all the time.
Randy