On 5/18/2010 10:46 AM, J. Clarke wrote:
> On 5/18/2010 3:13 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>> On 5/18/2010 8:28 AM, Andy wrote:
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 5/18/2010 7:17 AM, Andy wrote:
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 5/16/2010 2:20 PM, Nomen Nescio wrote:
>>>>>>> Why call a dutch oven a dutch oven? I'm sure that many other
>>>>>>> cultures/nations have been using that idea ever since iron was
>>>>>>> cast.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Dutch oven" is just what we happen to call it locally. No doubt
>>> other
>>>>>> countries that will call it something else. Holland, for instance.
>>> I'm
>>>>>> sure the Chinese don't call what they eat "Chinese food." I've always
>>>>>> wondered what Swedish rats are called in Sweden - I'm guessing
>>>>>> "Norwegian rats" or "French rats."
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Years ago, I studied mine and figured it was called that because the
>>>>> shallow dome shape of the cover and miniscule center handle (so to
>>> least
>>>>> interfere with the inner contents) could be inverted and something
>>> else
>>>>> cooked or warmed up in that at the same time. I had a Dutch door which
>>>>> made me think of that.
>>>>>
>>>>> Andy
>>>>
>>>> Well, there's Dutch ovens and then there's Dutch ovens. A real one
>>> would
>>>> be shaped so you could load coals on the top lid. Like most people, I
>>>> don't have a real one. I wonder if the Boy Scouts will still teach
>>>> cooking with this campfire classic?
>>>
>>>
>>> dsi1,
>>>
>>> If the scoutmaster is stupid enough to drag a 20 lb. Dutch oven on his
>>> backpack on a 50-mile trek, he should be stripped of any/all merit
>>> badges
>>> and excused of his position!!!
>>
>> Ah, it's the new stripped down scouts. :-)
>
> 20 pound cooking utensils are fine if you have a pack mule. Most scout
> troops today don't have that luxury.

This is pretty disappointing. The Dutch oven was always used in those
old Boy's Life magazine recipes where you'd need baked goods. Sounds
like you're saying that this was all a big fat lie. Another one bites
the dust. I guess in the old days (the 60s) they used pack mules.