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Re: A word of Caution (again)
Blaine S Nay (b.nay.scouts-l@JUNO.COM)
Mon, 26 Oct 1998 01:24:23 -0800
On Sat, 24 Oct 1998 20:49:13 -0400 "David L. Eby" <dleby@GEOCITIES.COM>
writes:
>I have read with interest all the dutch oven posts. I wish to add that
>caution must be exercised with the aluminum varieties. At a scout-o-rama
>twenty years ago my troop was baking pies in an aluminum one and a cast
iron
>one. The fire was a mix of hardwood & charcoal briquets. We didn't know
it
>but you create blast furnace heat when you mix these. My assistant
>scoutmaster picked up the aluminum oven to remove it from the fire with
the
>pie still in it and when he looked down at the fire the pie was still
there
>with the bottom of the oven underneath it. The dutch oven had an
approximate
>9" hole in the bottom. While it was and is comical, we lost a dutch
oven
>which had to be replaced. Thought you might be interested. Beware of the
>amount of heat you apply to aluminum. It was BSA issue oven.
>Dave Eby
>T-579 CC
>Michigan
>
Camp cooking - including dutch oven cooking - is done over coals, NOT
flames. Flame temperature is unpredictable, uneven, and often exceeds
the limits of cooking vessels. Cooking over coals won't do this kind of
damage to a dutch oven - iron or aluminum.
Blaine S Nay, Silverdale, Washington, USA
I used to be a Buffalo, SE-350-83
73427.523@compuserve.com
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/b_nay
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