Dutch Oven Pan Liners

[Get-T-UP]

Do any of you guys use pan liners in your Dutch ovens? They are as handy as a pocket on a shirt!  Here's how they work. You go down to your local restaurant supply company and buy a couple of 13" round cake pans, next you heat your Dutch ovens the way you normally do. Mix your ingredients and pour them into the baking pans. Next I place three coins (I like dimes) in the bottom of the oven. This keeps the food from burning by minimizing hot spots. When the oven is hot drop in the backing pans and cook you food. Use a pair of pliers to lift out the pans. Out comes a hot dish that can go right on the table. The clean up is minimal in the cast iron and you can cook a roast then briskets and finally a cobbler in the same hot oven.
Happy trails in this New Year to you all

[Steve]

Thanks for the great idea!

[flcracker]

This is a great idea. Easy clean up. But do you still get the same taste as you would if the food comes in contact with the cast iron ? Cast iron is all I cook with , it just tastes better.

 This would be great for the folks who can't cook with cast iron becuase of health reasons, the food won't come in contact with the iron. I think I remember Tina ( animules ) saying she couldn't use cast iron any more.
 By the way , is that cobbler in the picture ? Looks awsome.

Pete ( flcracker )

[Get-T-UP]

Yes Pete,
That's some of my peach cobble.

 I don't notice much change in the taste of my food using the aluminum pan liners after all you still get the smoke and headed iron effects. I have also user glass pie pans with success although they are hard to lift out of the Dutch ovens . On occasions I have placed smaller cast iron pot inside my ovens if I had a dish that I wanted to slow cook or keep warm.

Happy Trails
Leon

[Hal]

I bake most of my bread in a #8. I put the dough in a #8 and then leave the lid off, putting it inside a #16 with a few coals under and on top to create a rising oven. After the dough rises to create a domed top, I add coals to the #16 to bring the temp up for baking. This gives me a beautiful domed loave with a great texture. I also use aluminum pie tins like Leon for pies and cobbler, makes clean up easy.

[flcracker]

AWSOME ! THANKS FOR THE TIPS. I AM PLANNING A CAMP TRIP NEXT MONTH AND I WILL TRY THIS 

[animules]

Yeah, I was just thinking I wish I would have seen this sooner!!!!!!!!   Great tip.     Hmmmmmm, I wonder if I could talk my farrier into bringing back my cast iron.   

[Get-T-UP]

Hal,
I like the bead rising oven Idea. I think I will try it next time out!

Thanks
Leon