50 plus #’s of ci is too much for CI camping!

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Hilditch

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I love cooking in ci. Probably 75% of our meals involve ci cooking and I own a half dozen Griswold ci waffle irons. However, camping with a CI requires some thoughtful balancing and common sense.

When camping, we normally cook for two or four if we want leftovers for another meal or have company for dinner. We always have a #10 ci frying pan as it will cook any recipe for one or 6. We will take our #8 - 5 qt. Dutch oven IF it is appropriate. It will hold dinner for 6 also no matter what recipe. A Coleman collapsible oven for baking always goes with us for any baking. I’ve found using inches can be deceptive so I use the utensil numbers. An example of the deception is now Lodge is selling a 14sk that is really a #12 but is 15”s in diameter. Historically the # of the pot or pan was the diameter of the cooking surface

A 12” Dutch oven should be a #10 which would hold enough for at least 8 people. Way too big for CI cooking for 2. I don’t recommend one that big unless you need to cook for that many people. Both our #8 and #10 are Lodge as they cook more evenly than Griswold, Wagner or any other high end crap out there. Those and my Belgium Descoware 2 egg pan are the limit for ci going camping. The waffle irons stay home to wait for our arrival.

Your menu can decide what ci you need, or vice versa.

Hilditch
 
I have to admit I am not versed in MFG model #'s, or pattern #'s, and especially in skillets. I am more familiar with DO.

When you converse with someone and refer to a skillet size, it is not exact, as in with dutch ovens.
On the cooking forums and fire side conversations, the sizes of skillets are refered to with their recognized diameter.
5", 8" 10" 15" 17" 20". It is an accepted size or reference. If you throw out casting or model sizes, most of us enthusiasts won't know what you are talking about.
DO have their accepted "size" cast in the lids. Now I am refering to "camp dutch ovens". If you are referencing a DO for a size of a dish, the fireside standard is volume. 1qt, 2qt, etc. If you refer to a diameter (the norm) and you aren't using the same manufacturer of DO, the capacity will be different.
Now that we have the people that just want to fix a meal all confused, lets take further discussion off line. OBTW if you you look at the recipes they refer to a 12" DO or a 10" DO. etc, When one gets into the "kettles" the reference is then pretty much in the volume listing, because the major manufacturer of these babies are not standard. OK off forum now. :D
 
Oh yeah, I agree 50# of ci is too much if you are just camping.
In fact if I am just camping I do pack to what the menu calls for.

How ever many of my camping trips are enjoined with a group, where many pots are required, or participating in a DOG (dutch oven gathering), so for those events I pack ALL my road ci, which I will guarrantee weighs more than 50#.
 
No thanks George. I know exactly what I am talking about. Also, hopefully the way I explained it didn't confuse anyone.

Hilditch
 
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