Cooking with a Dutch Oven - Cooking with gas

Submitted: Tuesday, Oct 21, 2008 at 21:19

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For as long as I can remember, a Dutch Oven was a ... well ... hmmm... this pretty well sums it up.

No way am I going to cook a lamb roast or damper like that!!

I'm intrigued though. Where did this expression come from to, initially gradually, but now rapidly, overcome the simple Australian camp oven?

I suspect a Seppo influence here - read further into that Wikipedia article - sending another Aussie expression into oblivion... just like dunny is being replaced by bathroom.

Very sad really.

Jeff

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Reply By: The Rambler( W.A.) - Tuesday, Oct 21, 2008 at 22:45

Tuesday, Oct 21, 2008 at 22:45

Ican tell youthe 'Dutch Oven' has been around a hell of a lot longer than the modern 'Camp Oven"

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Reply By: Cape York Connections - Wednesday, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:57

Wednesday, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:57

During the late 1600s the Dutch system of producing these cast metal cooking vessels was more advanced than the English system. The Dutch used dry sand to make their molds, giving their pots a smoother surface. Consequently, metal cooking vessels produced in the Netherlands were imported into Britain.

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Eric

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Reply By: troopyman - Wednesday, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:57

Wednesday, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:57

The yanks call it a dutch oven . Aussies generally call it a camp oven . If you said to me i am going to cook something in a dutch oven i would think twice about sleeping in the same tent .

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