Dutch Oven Campfire Cooking Tips

Dutch oven campfire cooking is nearly an ancient form of making food, but cooking with Dutch ovens has never been more popular. And that's because the meals made in a Dutch oven are absolutely incredible!

General Tips for Using Dutch Ovens:
Check out some basic tips and tricks for Dutch oven campfire cooking.

How to Season a Dutch Oven:
Learn the right way for seasoning a Dutch oven so that it will last longer and cook better.

Cleaning Dutch Ovens:
Want to know how to clean a Dutch oven? It's easy, but there are a few things you need to know.

Dutch Oven Temperature Guide:
Find out how to figure out the temperature of the fire for cooking with a Dutch oven.

General Dutch Oven Cooking Tips

It is easiest to use charcoal for cooking with Dutch ovens, because you can control the heat a lot better.

You can count on each briquette of charcoal giving you around 25 degrees of heat. So for every 100 degrees farenheit you need, you should use 4 briquettes of charcoal.

If you are using coals from a campfire, then you may need to experiment with what works best.

As a general rule of thumb, you should put roughly twice as many coals on top of the Dutch oven as you put under it.

The first 3 or 4 times you use a newly seasoned Dutch oven, do not cook any foods with a high acid content (like foods containing tomatoes or tomato juice) or any foods that are very sugary (cobblers, desserts, etc.). The protective coating hasn't had a chance to fully get "baked-on" before the first 3 or 4 uses, and acidic or sugary foods will destroy the coating. before it hardens completely.

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