{"id":1915,"date":"2011-03-01T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outdoorcookingmagic.com\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2014-06-30T04:02:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T11:02:40","slug":"started-dutch-oven-cooking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.outdoorcookingmagic.com\/started-dutch-oven-cooking\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started with Dutch Oven Cooking"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DutchRecently I was at a conference where we were discussing outdoor cooking.\u00a0 I was surprised at how many people had never heard of Dutch oven cooking<\/strong>, let alone actually cooked with a dutch oven.\u00a0 After some discussion, I realized that most of the people I was talking with were from the Eastern United States.<\/p>\n

I'm from the west, and Dutch oven cooking is big out here.\u00a0 Maybe even more than big!\u00a0 It seems like it isn't as popular back east.\u00a0 I have a neighbor that has 8 or 9 Dutch ovens, and I've heard of someone else\u00a0 that had 18 and even heard of one person that owned 100 Dutch ovens!\u00a0 They must cook for some awfully large groups!<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/div>So it got me thinking about writing a series of articles to help someone get started with Dutch oven cooking.\u00a0 The questions that I wanted to answer were those that someone who had never cooked with a Dutch oven might want to know.\u00a0 So I sent an email out to my newsletter group (go here <\/a>to subscribe) and asked a series of questions, and will be summarizing their answers, along with my own ideas, research, and experience, into this series of posts.<\/p>\n

So, why would you want to cook in with a Dutch oven?\u00a0 Quite simply, you can cook fabulous dishes of a large variety in a Dutch oven.\u00a0 Just about anything you can cook in your kitchen on your stove or in your oven, you can cook outdoors in a Dutch oven.\u00a0 You can cook soups and stews, meats, vegetables, casseroles, breads, desserts, breakfasts, and much more.\u00a0 You can bake, boil, simmer, slow cook, fry, roast, deep fry, and more.\u00a0 You can cook the simplest of dishes, or gourmet.\u00a0 There is a reason that our pioneer ancestors brought this cookware across the plains.\u00a0 Taken care of properly, a good cast iron Dutch oven will last 100 years or longer.<\/p>\n

Here are the articles that will be part of this series:<\/p>\n