Becoming a Better Cook

[TheIrishman]

Last year I bought my wife a dutch oven in Macy's (she said she wanted one), don't recall the brand. She unwrapped it, loved it, looked inside and found a little piece of paper saying "Don't put this in the oven."

The Lodge ones have that. The solution is to buy a Le Crueset knob off of Amazon and replace the original with it.

You have to pick the right set. The ones with removable plastic handles is for kitchen use, and as HTRN said, you can swap to metal Le Creuset knobs. The ones with the cast in "loop" handle are better for outdoor/camping use and usually have feet on the bottom. You can use the ones with feet in an oven, you just have to put it on a cookie sheet to keep it level on the grates. The lids with cast in loops can also be used as a skillet over the campfire by flipping them over.

[PawPaw]

One of the more unusual things you can do with an enameled dutch oven is bake bread.

Uuuh, yeah. My favorite bread recipe for outdoor cooking is beer bread. The ingredients are easy to transport to the woods.



This recipe also works great in the oven at your house.

[MarkD]

Last year I bought my wife a dutch oven in Macy's (she said she wanted one), don't recall the brand. She unwrapped it, loved it, looked inside and found a little piece of paper saying "Don't put this in the oven."

The Lodge ones have that. The solution is to buy a Le Crueset knob off of Amazon and replace the original with it.

I considered buying a ceramic cabinet knob and replacing the plastic one, didn't realize you could buy a Le Creuset knob. Still, now we've got the "real" one, and it wasn't much more expensive than the Macy's one. Probably much better quality too.