Dutch Oven Cooking for Two!
We would like to try this out, but there are only two of us. Do they make a smaller dutch oven other than the big ones we see? And if so what about recipes for two? Thanks in advance for any info.!
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SWMO wrote:Excellent points. For versatility we carry the ten inch in the RV because it can accommodate a small chicken, roast with some leftover for sandwiches, small rack of ribs, etc. Herself and I follow the philosophy of cook once eat twice. Leftovers are delicious and can be warmed in the mw in the RV giving free time for exploring the local area.sh410 wrote:
We use this 8" Lodge dutch oven for the two of us.
Two was our normal for a couple of decades and we carried 2 8" and 1 10". The 2 8" carried the load. We would cook a meal in one and a cobbler in the other. the cobbler consisted of a large can of peaches, or the equivalent in other fruit, topped with a Jiffy yellow cake mix spotted with butter.
An 8" DO is very close to half of a 12" and works well halving any 12" recipe.
There are often 3 of us now and the 8's still are adequate more often then not.
People tend to overdo DO sizes, I think primarily because the 12" has always been the Scout standby, and they then end up in the shed or the garage. If you don't have a 12" pot at home you probably don't need one outdoors. Most people don't have a pot bigger than 10" at the house.
