Customer Reviews

Dutch Oven Cooking

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This is an excellant beginners Dutch Oven Cookbook. This book fits inside my dutch oven and I take it with me camping. I had no problem with the cooking temperatures or times given in the book. Excellant advice and some very good recipes for a beginner. Every fire is different and every Dutch Oven cooking experience is different. This book will help keep the disasters to a minimum.

The introductory material on buying, seasoning and cleaning the oven is excellent. The suggested additional equipment is reasonable and easily obtainable. The lack of temperature information and baking times of the individual recipes is a serious shortcoming to beginning dutch oven cooks as is the lack of information on the amount of coals necessary to produce a specific temperatures. Overall, an excellent cook book, but better for more experienced cooks.

I will admit to being surprised when I got this at how small the book is, but its full of info and perfect for taking camping. I agree with others, there is no instructions on how many coals to use or for placement, but once you have used a DO a few times, it all becomes second nature.

I use mine one the stove or in the oven. We don't camp often but I use my DO at least twice a week. With a recipe that needs a few hours to cook, I make it in the backyard on a charcoal BBQ'er and it works great. I have had no problems at all figuring out cook times and temps.

Many dutch oven cookbooks on the market are weighty and daunting: not so the 4th updated edition of a near-pocket guide Dutch Oven Cooking, which is perfect for taking along and meal planning for a camping trip. It's the outdoors orientation which differentiates this from similar-sounding, home-oriented coverages, offering up dishes perfect for campfires and overnights and moving the dutch oven from indoors to outside. From an intriguing Peppermint Pound Cake to Potato Soup, here's a fine pocket presentation also recommended for in-home use.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

This is a five-star classic, and for the price can't be beat. The author covers selection, use and maintenace of Dutch ovens, as well as providing a good mix of recipe types (fish, poultry, deserts, etc.). I especially recommend the fish and rice recipe!

Bought this book hoping to get a little more info on dutch oven cooking. I agree with the others it needs a coal breakdown for temps. Some recipes gave temps so if you know the breakdown your okay.

Most of the recipes and coal breakdowns can be found on the internet anyhow.

This book is brief, yet comprehensive. It is easily understood, and clearly organized--a useful source for the beginner and/or reminder for those who have not done it for a while.

The product was never delivered. After a couple of weeks, I received an email stating they were out of the book. The company should have not been advertising the product, if they were out of stock. I will not purchase anything from this company again.