Stand for dutch oven, made from scrap

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Here is a stand that I made for a friend. He and some other people from his church have started a Boy Scout troop. I gave him a cast iron dutch oven that I had and a cast iron skillet. We were talking about racks to hang the dutch oven from, I had some scrap so I stuck this one together and painted it.
Reply:Originally Posted by Mick120Jeez....had me going there for a minute.Over here, a Dutch Oven is when you fart in bed and hold the blanket down tight.....Nice stand BTW.
Reply:Never heard it called a dutch oven but I have my wife spout of a long string of profanities about such situations.
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Reply:Originally Posted by Mick120Jeez....had me going there for a minute.Over here, a Dutch Oven is when you fart in bed and hold the blanket down tight.....Nice stand BTW.
Reply:Originally Posted by bhardy501Here is a stand that I made for a friend. He and some other people from his church have started a Boy Scout troop. I gave him a cast iron dutch oven that I had and a cast iron skillet. We were talking about racks to hang the dutch oven from, I had some scrap so I stuck this one together and painted it.
Reply:Dont know on the paint. I thought about making a grill bottom for it to use the skillet or grill hamburgers on. This is free work helping out a friend and the Boy Scout troop. Didnt have the extra cash to buy different material so this is what I had scrap enough to build.
Reply:And when you fart in a car and keep the windows it is called hot box fyi in case it is different for you mates over there.
Reply:Here's a good project the Scouts can do themselves. It's a pie pan dutch oven, great for backpacking. I'll copy paste the post I did here before for you. Originally Posted by DSWOk tom here's the dutch oven I said I would post. It super simple.Materials:3 steel pie pans ( you could use larger cake pans but the handles on the pie pans make good lifting points)2 1"L 5/16" stove bolts. Look like a carriage bolt but with a screw driver slot and no square part on the bolt.2 5/16" wing nuts. SS preferred.3 large 60d nails or 3 short pieces of rebar3 nickelsdisposable alum pie tin.drill a 5/16" hole thru all the handles so that they can be stacked and secured for storage.Drill 2 5/16" holes tru the bottom of 2 of the pans with them stacked back to back. This will make your lid.That is pretty much it for construction.
Reply:2nd half. Originally Posted by DSWNow how to use it, and a simple recipe for a cobbler.Drive the 3 nails in the ground in a triangle formation that the bottom pan will sit on. Place 15 burning charcoal brickettes under the bottom around the nails. The nails keep the coals from directly touching the pan. 9 burning charcoal brickettes will go in the top of the lid.Place 3 nickel in the bottom of the oven. this will keep the alum pan off the bottom and give you an air space.Take your disposable alum pan. In this I put part of a can of pie filling, your favorite flavor, in 1st. then top with a box of dry cake mix. Put a small pat of butter on top of the cake mix. Place this into the bottom pan.Use a pair of welding gloves to lift the lid with the coals. Put the lid on top and cook till the top is golden brown. gloves allow you to see how its cooking and the top pan keeps the ashes out of the oven, well most of them any ways.It has been awhile since I have done this so I may be wrong on the number of charcoal briquettes that works best for heat. You need about 2x as many on the bottom as the top. I can't remember exactly how much goes in the pan as far as ingredients. I would use this and a full size dutch oven so I cant remember how much went in each size. I think the full size dutch oven used 1 can and 1 box to make a cobbler.I have cooked Pizza it this, biscuits, baked apples (you have to slice them up), Pot pies (the frozen store bought ones), and I can't remember what else.As I said before I have seen them made with larger cake pans also. I would add side handles to those.Any questions feel free to ask away. Just some thing this eagle scout picked up in the pacific north west. I had a group of young scouts take 1st prise in cooking at the national jamboree years ago using about 8 of these to do a cooking demonstration.BTW this makes a great backpacking oven.
Reply:Back when I was in Scouts, we put the dutch oven right in the fire. It's a lodge unit with the lip on the lid, so we also put hot coals on the top, making it a true "oven" effect inside. It had the legs on it and everything.If anything, I'd make a nice lid handle so you don't have to wear a glove when removing the lid!Hobart EZ-Tig newbie.
Reply:thanks DSW, i will pass this on to the guys. They may be interested in doing something like this. Very cool.