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    • Clay Hayes
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        February 13, 2015 at 8:56 pm
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        #5060

        We’ll still be doing a few of the longer episodes of Backcountry college but we’re just now starting a new version of short, to the point videos. Here’s the first.

        A pack trip into the Selway Bitterroot Wilderness with with my supervisor a few years back inspired this short video. He was duct taping the lid onto 12″ Dutch oven in order to keep them together and not rattling around while on the trail. I like my way better.:D

        As always, share it with friends you think might dig it. ch

      • Patrick
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          February 13, 2015 at 9:24 pm
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          #36792

          As always, great job Clay!

        • Doc Nock
            February 13, 2015 at 9:41 pm
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            #36815

            I’ve looked at most of your stuff, Clay! And I know you’re one tough, strong YOUNG hombre, but when I read about “packing” into the hinterlands and the words Dutch Ovens, I had to ask myself “Are they beasts?”

            Then watching, I learned you have aluminum and not cast iron “dutchies”.

            Perhaps you even had beasts of burden to carry your stuff… When I was young enough to attempt forays into the hills with pack, I found some very light weight stuff… surely not dutch ovens…but regardless of how ones gear is carried, not having a musical parade coming along behind would be very sweet! I like it!

          • Patrick
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              February 13, 2015 at 9:43 pm
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              #36818

              Doc Nock wrote: …Then watching, I learned you have aluminum and not cast iron “dutchies”.

              That makes two of us.

            • Doc Nock
                February 13, 2015 at 10:16 pm
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                #36854

                I guess we all project in our own view…

                I have 2 cast iron dutchies…

                One, an ULTIMATE Dutch Oven, (had a cone inside and looks like a steroidal Angel food pan) weighs 33#! That one you don’t nest with that gizmo sticking up the center! Great for car camping… I don’t know I would feel right putting that on a horse even…!:shock:

                It is amazing though… fist sized chunks of meat, taters, and it’s done on a 30,000BTU Camp Chef Stove in 30 minutes! They call it the “outdoor microwave”… So that is where MY head went! Somedays, getting it out of the truck is a chore! :lol::oops:

              • Clay Hayes
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                  February 13, 2015 at 11:27 pm
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                  #36930

                  Yep, ponies to carry the heavy stuff and me as well. Having a couple of anodized aluminum dutchies along makes meal time something to look forward to:D Peach cobbler. Mmmmm

                • Doc Nock
                    February 14, 2015 at 12:35 am
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                    #36985

                    I like to make meals with stuff in that has acid base I guess, meat and vegs and the aluminum is reported (what ain’t?) to have bad juju leach out from my kinda cooking…

                    But cobbler makes it worthwhile, you bet!:lol:

                  • Clay Hayes
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                      February 14, 2015 at 4:27 pm
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                      #37769

                      The anodized aluminum isn’t supposed to have that problem. I know they’re sure a lot harder than regular aluminum. I don’t hesitate to scrap mine out with a steel spatula. You can’t scratch the thing.

                    • Doc Nock
                        February 14, 2015 at 4:49 pm
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                        #37788

                        Thanks, Clay.

                        I didn’t know that about anodized Alum… never seen i t for sale anyway, just the cast iron and I got seduced into that some time back…

                        I’ll keep that in mind if I ever decide to add-to my collection!

                        Thanks!:D

                      • David Fudala
                          February 14, 2015 at 5:33 pm
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                          #37825

                          Another great addition to the collection Clay. I am curious about the aluminum ovens. I’ve only ever used iron ovens and I’m guessing you have as well. Do you notice any kind of difference in taste using the aluminum ovens?

                        • paleoman
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                            February 17, 2015 at 2:23 am
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                            #40844

                            Patrick wrote: [quote=Doc Nock]…Then watching, I learned you have aluminum and not cast iron “dutchies”.

                            That makes two of us.

                            Now it’s 3. I always thought of them as cast iron.

                          • Clay Hayes
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                              February 17, 2015 at 3:22 am
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                              #40897

                              dfudala wrote: Another great addition to the collection Clay. I am curious about the aluminum ovens. I’ve only ever used iron ovens and I’m guessing you have as well. Do you notice any kind of difference in taste using the aluminum ovens?

                              I don’t notice anything different. You’ve got to be a little more careful with heat distribution since they dissipate heat quicker.

                            • Bruce Smithhammer
                                February 17, 2015 at 3:47 am
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                                #40922

                                ‘Nesting Dutches’ – is that how new Dutches are made?

                              • Clay Hayes
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                                  February 18, 2015 at 3:32 pm
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                                  #42727

                                  Smithhammer wrote: ‘Nesting Dutches’ – is that how new Dutches are made?

                                  yes. My 10in will eventually outgrow the nest and I’ll have to get another. I think it’s kind of like when a deer grows into an elk…

                                • David Coulter
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                                    February 19, 2015 at 3:34 am
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                                    #43252

                                    Smith thinks your Dutches are spooning….

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