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    Dutch Oven Banana Bread Recipe - Campfire Cooking - GF Video

    by Eric · This post may contain affiliate links, its one way we pay the bills. · 7 Comments

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    Dutch oven banana bread recipe baked in a campfire or using charcoal, nice right?. Either way it tastes like the instant comfort food that it is. Watch the video and then read the recipe below.

    Head up: I now have 4 dutch ovens, and all are well seasoned at this point. You can see our  how to season cast iron video here. But I've never used a dutch oven for what they were probably originally designed for, cooking over a campfire. So today we use the cast iron dutch oven for what it is for, cooking outdoors. Watch and learn how to bake with fire.

    How to make the dutch oven banana bread recipe

    Whether for campfire cooking or backyard cooking, the dutch oven comes thru as a great pot for baking. Today we are going to learn how to use the dutch oven you have to bake or cook food outdoors, using charcoal or firewood. There are a couple of tricks here we learned from Gary of Cooking-Outdoors.com, like how to stack coals on the lid of a dutch oven, and how to use a dutch oven to bake breads and cakes.

    Update: Reading some of the great comments, I've learned that when fully fired up, each charcoal briquette puts out about 40-50F of heat. I will use this info as I experiment more with dutch oven cooking with charcoal and campfires. What fun.

    If you don't already have them here are links to buy a cast iron dutch oven, a charcoal chimney, and heat resistant oven mitts.

    Some takeaways from this video and recipe, which was really fun to do.

    • Its not perfect. Is baking outdoors ever perfect
    • Use good pot holders and silicon oven gloves.
    • Charcoal is hot!
    • You will love baking outdoors.

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    Toad In A Hole Recipe

    Check out our Toad In The Hole Recipe, also made outdoors in a dutch oven.

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    Comments

    1. Tonia Moxley

      August 23, 2011 at 12:01 pm

      In an outdoor cooking class I took, they said each charcoal briquette gives off about 50 degrees F of heat.

    2. nelson marasco

      September 10, 2011 at 1:35 pm

      HI Just a quick note each briqet at full burn is 40 btu ergo 10 coals should be 400 degrees.thanks for listening nelson

    3. Eric Gunnar Rochow

      September 11, 2011 at 5:23 am

      Thanks Nelson, good to learn the science behind charcoal briquettes. We'll have to do some experiments to find the internal temperature of a dutch oven that is heated with charcoal.

    4. Joe Roquebecil

      September 16, 2011 at 2:50 pm

      I also use a Spanish paella pan over a campfire when I go camping and I rarely cover it and the results are fantastic. The crispy seasoned rice on the bottom is to die for.

    5. Eric Gunnar Rochow

      September 17, 2011 at 4:04 pm

      i love the rice at the bottom of the pot, funny how in the US that means the rice is burned. eric

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