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Boundary Waters Quetico Forum :: BWCA Food and Recipes :: Frozen Foods in the Dutch Oven

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hubben

02/09/2014 06:50PM

I've noticed plenty of great discussion on the culinary virtues of cooking with Dutch ovens on this site. Does anyone have experience using a Dutch Oven to cook something directly from the frozen state---like we cook frozen pizzas in our conventional ovens? This question pertains specifically to winter camping when going through the steps of thawing raw food that froze incidentally on the trip in and then cooking it is simply too energy intensive and time-consuming. I was considering preparing some hearty meals at home, freezing them (or letting mother nature do that herself), and then cooking them in the DO....perhaps calzones, pasties, enchiladas, apple crisp, or something along those lines.

OldFingers57

02/10/2014 08:26AM

You should be able to bake that stuff just fine in a DO even if it's frozen. It will take longer as you are thawing it out and reheating it since it's already cooked. But basically the DO is just like a regular oven. Now I would not put the items you plan to bake directly on the bottom of the oven. I would put some stones in the bottom of the DO and then have a pan on top of the stones and the pan would caontain what I plan to bake.