D.O. Parchment Liners

[halfdome, Danny]

I noticed they carry Dutch Oven Parchment liners at Walmart yesterday.
Has anyone used these and what are your thoughts? Danny

[SmokeyBob]

I like em. Especially when your cooking something that is sticky and gooey. Makes clean up a lot easier.

[Gaelen]

Danny, I also like them--they make life much easier in a campground, where I like to keep cleanup to a minimum. At home, the liners make it lots easier to test stuff like the latest one I'm working on--a pineapple upside cornbread. There'd be a lot less incentive to test a recipe more than once if cleaning up the iron took an hour afterwards.

I don't use them for soupy/wet things (like chile or gumbo) and I don't use them when I'm roasting meats because roasted stuff cleans up pretty easily. But I did use a folded up liner instead of parchment paper to wrap around fish and vegetables so that I could steam them in the oven, and that worked really well.

I now keep DO liners in my camp box and my kitchen all the time.

[Loader]

Danny, I've used them for baking a cake in the DO. Works great!

[bobhenry]

I was cutting and fitting parchment paper to bake some homemade bread at our May gathering when a fellow camper mentioned them and returned moments later with a few for me to play with. They are great for baking !



Hot homemade bread always disappears quickly during the pitch in dinners.

[Jst83]

I'd have to agree with the others. I saw them at walmart and thought why not I'll try them. Used them last weekend for an apple cobbler, the clean up was so quick and I don't think it hurt the cooking any. There is no seasoning happening to the dutch oven with the use of them though. But the clean up was so easy Oh I said that So I'd have to give them the

[bobhenry]

I'd have to agree with the others. I saw them at walmart and thought why not I'll try them. Used them last weekend for an apple cobbler, the clean up was so quick and I don't think it hurt the cooking any. There is no seasoning happening to the dutch oven with the use of them though. But the clean up was so easy Oh I said that So I'd have to give them the

I spray the d.o. with aerosol vegatable spray this helps hold the seasoning and also spray the inside of the liners to help seperate the baked goods from the liner.

[Gaelen]

I spray the d.o. with aerosol vegatable spray this helps hold the seasoning and also spray the inside of the liners to help seperate the baked goods from the liner.

I've never sprayed the inside of the parchment liners, but I did add a Misto to my camp kitchen to put a light coating of olive oil on my cast iron. I've used a Misto for years at home--extra virgin olive oil in the pump sprayer, no aerosols necessary, and you can control the time the oil sits in the cannister (just dump it after a month or two) so that your oil is always fresh.)

http://www.misto.com/

[Laredo]

second that Misto rec -- and the one about using it between iron/parchment.

Old skool here -- parchment paper doesn't have to come on a roll? WOW.

[halfdome, Danny]

Thanks for all the positive opinions .
Looks like I'll have to get some and try them out. Thanks, Danny

[Dean in Eureka, CA]

Danny,
I've never used them, took one look at the price and said, "What?!!!"
I don't think I'm a cheapskate, but luckily for me I discovered a way to buy parchment paper (PP) in bulk.
Cash and Carry sells a box of rectangular shaped PP sheets, sold as bakers sheets or something like that and a box will last you several seasons of DO cooking.
Bought mine about three years ago and have just begun to put a dent in the box.
Yeah... Yaa gotta cut them into a circle for a better fit, but the price is right.

[Gaelen]

Dean is right about the precut sheets. I've got them at home along with a roll of parchment paper, both bought at one of the local restaurant supply stores. The box wasn't cheap, but it has lasted me a really really long time. The precut sheets are rectangular to fit a professional 1/2 sheet pan, and cut in half they fit a 1/4 sheet pan. But I find them a little narrow for getting into the DO (they were the first thing I tried.)

I picked up one box of the DO parchment liners last year when W-M had them on clearance. Tried them, liked them, and went back for more. I think they were $2/box and I bought three or four boxes. But I keep a cookin' kitchen, so for me cooking supplies and kitchen tools are part of the perks (um...no...that's costs) of maintaining that hobby.

Way cheaper than some hobbies could choose...

[halfdome, Danny]

Danny,
I've never used them, took one look at the price and said, "What?!!!"
I don't think I'm a cheapskate, but luckily for me I discovered a way to buy parchment paper (PP) in bulk.
Cash and Carry sells a box of rectangular shaped PP sheets, sold as bakers sheets or something like that and a box will last you several seasons of DO cooking.
Bought mine about three years ago and have just begun to put a dent in the box.
Yeah... Yaa gotta cut them into a circle for a better fit, but the price is right.

That's a great idea Dean. I'll look for them & I have scissors in the TD.
The liners at Walmart were close to a dollar each in a pack of 8. Danny