SC - dutch ovens

[Huette von Ahrens]

Stefan,

My dutch oven does not have feet.  It is milled (not
cast or molded) aluminum 3/8ths inch thick, looking
like this (_), with an equally rounded copper lid.  My
mother was given it as a wedding gift in 1947 along
with a matching 1 qt. sauce pan.

I have been thinking about this and I have decided to
look up "dutch oven" in my Webster's.  I have found
this definition:

Dutch oven n 1 : a metal shield for roasting before an
open fire. 2 : a brick oven in which cooking is done
by the preheated walls. 3 a: a cast-iron kettle with a
tight cover that is used for baking in an open fire.
b: a heavy pot with a tight-fitting domed cover.

Your Dutch oven, Stefan, is 3a.  Mine is 3b. 
Interesting.

Huette

- --- Stefan li Rous <stefan at texas.net> wrote:
> Huette commented: 
> > An aluminum dutch oven is not a camping pot, but a
> > large round pot that usually holds a gallon of
> liquid.
> >  I have one.  The bottom is aluminum and the lid
> is
> > copper.  It is very useful.  It is great for
> making
> > soup or stock.
> 
> Yes, I have a heavy alluminum one made for kitchen
> use with a cast
> alluminum top that also fits on the skillet.
> 
> However, the alluminum dutch oven I'm speaking of is
> made for
> campfire use and is probably the forerunner of the
> kitchen one. The
> one I'm thinking of has three legs on it for sitting
> in the coals and
> the top is all alluminum, no plastic knob with a
> half inch(?), one
> inch (?) ring along the outside edge of the lid to
> hold coals. The 
> handle is a 'C' shaped metal bar cast into the top.
> The top is slightly
> concave. It also has a wire loop handle attached to
> either side of the 
> pot rather than the flat handles molded into my
> kitchen unit.
> 
> The alluminum dutch ovens cost considerably more
> than the cast iron
> ones, at least they did 25 years ago when I was in
> the Boy Scouts.
> 
> And yes, I often use my alluminum kitchen dutch oven
> instead of a
> soup pot for making soups and roasts and such
> because since it is
> much thicker (quarter inch?) it spreads the heat out
> better than the
> much thinner soup pots I have. I keep looking for a
> decent quality,
> thick walled alluminum soup pot but haven't found
> one yet.
> 
> -- 
> Lord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad   
> Kingdom of Ansteorra
> Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas          
> stefan at texas.net
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