[Sca-cooks] Dutch oven question

[Philippa Alderton]

 In lists.sca.sca-cooks, you wrote:
> >
> >The biggest ultra super problem I've ever
> encountered with dutch ovens
> >(or any fire cooking) is convincing people that you
> can't have a camp
> >bonfire if you want to cook on it.  If you have
> ridiculous quantities of
> >wood, bonfires are wonderful warm things to sit and
> watch.  But you
> >cannot cook on them, and you cannot even cook very
> efficiently near
> >them.  Last Pennsic, Mike had to dig out an extra
> fire pit and take
> >coals from the camp bonfire so as to cook with the
> dutch oven.

Of course, let us not forget the frustration of
loaning a self- declared expert in Dutch ovens one's
brand new seasoned cast iron Dutch oven, and getting
it back with rocks in it and so rusty it took hours
with sandpaper and steel wool to clean up, and more
hours to reaseason again......

Phlip


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