I remember when I was little taking ingredients from my grandmother's pantry and one of her old cast iron pots and just heading to the woods. I didn't know what the heck I was doing just adding potatoes and carrots and other random crap to boiling water but I had the time of my life.

you need to add a disclaimer "do not watch when hungry"! great video!

Looks great! Love using my Dutch oven on coals.

I like squirrel and dumpling. Great video Dan.

Try doing beef ribs with tinned tomatoes and a nice bottle of red wine, onion, potato and carrot. Very simple. Use the coals and do them low and slow for 3+ hours, they will fall off the bone. One of the best recipes for the Dutch oven as you just throw it all in and not have to watch it

I’m really enjoying this Dutch oven cooking series

Dan, I'm just now getting into your backwoods cooking vids and I think its GREAT that you add the ingredients list! I've been able to screenshot the lists so I can then write them in my notebook. Keep it up man, hope see your camps at some point this year man

Really shouldn't watch this on an empty stomach LOL Looks great!!

It always amazes me that foods always taste better in the woods. I made a tortilla pizza once and made it again at home and it didn’t taste as good. Your stew on the other hand looks good regardless. Nice work.

It's always good to see another person's version of any staple ... mostly I enjoy hanging out with you at camp. Being stuck here in the city, your channel is my escape, and my inspiration for leaving here and moving back to the country. Blessings to you and your family.

Almost the exact same way my mother taught me to make stew. We always eat it watery and don't add the corn starch but I'll definitely have to try that. Great video. Made me hungry!

I substituted about 1/3 of the onion for celery and it turned out great using deer tenderloin. Excellent eating!

Great information as always!! Keep these amazing bushcraft videos coming.

I have to admit that I am a bit jealous my friend. Out in the woods is where I would like to be, but the daily grind kinda puts a damper on it. I used to do things like this before I hit 19 and moved away for the Navy. One fine day I think I will get back into it. Nice videos by the way. Been binge watching em.

When I'm making a stew or soup, and I want to thicken it up, I usually just add a couple of pinches of quick-cook oatmeal. It's rolled into really small pieces, so it absorbs the water really well. Some of the pieces are practically a flour. It's coarse enough that you don't have to have an extra step where you stir it into water before adding it, but it gives off enough starch to thicken up the liquid really well.

Love the simplicity of it. That's the way I learned to cook. Merry Christmas. Blessed New Year. Thanks for sharing.

I have used the packaged gravy mix pwd to thicken my stew. Just another twist on it.

Now u made me want stew... I have all the ingredients, just gotta chop up the meat & veggies! Looked good!!

That looks amazing!!!

Another tasty video from Chef Coalcracker! Merry Christmas!

great video and great idea thanks for shareing i really love your style and these instructions

Excellent recipe!

Great video. I didn't know carrots took so much longer to cook than potatoes.

Instant mashed potato mix also works great to thicken up a stew.

Townsends led me here and I'm grateful

mighty fine looking meal!

Who dislikes this!?! This is true gold!!! But haters gonna hate. Much love bro-dude

Very hearty looking meal. Many thanks for sharing.

That look real tasty, I bet that is good on a cold day, I do chicken stew something like that over the camp fire.

Love these!!

love the cooking videos..........Merry Christmas!

A better way to get a good gravy and more flavor, is to dredge the meat in flour BEFORE browning. The flour gets toasted, adding more flavor, and it absorbs the fat, so that when you add the water it doesn't clump up and you get a nice smooth gravy. For THICK gravy, add another tablespoon or two of flour to the pan and stir it in just before adding the water.

Great videos! One thing you may or may not know. You can pick fresh sassafrass leaves, dry them and grind to a powder. Add to your stew and it will thicken like corn starch. You can store the powder for winter use. Thanks Much! DaveyJO

Yummy And Delicious.

Very Nice !

Great job! Looks delicious. You mentioned getting one or two additional meals from this stew. My question is how do you store the leftover stew in the field? In your PA woods environment, I suspect temperature is not an issue this time of year to store and to reheat, maybe a splash of water and back over the fire. Do you simply cover and leave in the Dutch oven?

Good stuff.

Very nice and simple stew! Great video...new sub!

Love these videos! It is giving me so much more cast iron experience because I was always scared I’d ruin my seasoning. But how do you store food if there are leftovers when bushcrafting?

I usually make my stew so thick it'll sit on my plate. Still looks tasty, though!

Try adding some instant mashed potatoes as a thickening agent... Merry Christmas, Dan!

Looks great.

Very good..:-)Thnx and Merry X-mass :-)

Thanks and Merry Christmas!!

Stew rocks.

You followed al all the proper steps for a good stew

Looks wonderful! How do you keep leftovers in this sort of setting?

Good looking stew

Yum yum.

This made me buy a dutch oven...

Just cooked, very good.

Wish I could smell it lol 😳😜

Lets eat :-)

Stay in the woods!

You should show the full process like preparation of the meat and veg

Would squirrel work?

What size is your Dutch oven and brand

looks tasty!

You mentioned using game animals and I have a question that I have been meaning to ask but it may be slightly off topic. There are videos like on Dave Canterbury's site that show the process of cleaning a game animal till it is cooked and on the table. When cleaning they say to check the insides for spots and worms and that is it. Does that mean you can not eat the animal or does it mean you can not eat the organ meat? Just an arm chair bush craftier here.I may not do it but find it interesting to learn new stuff. Bruce from the City of Orange in Orange county California

Lizards, gizzards, and buzzards.

Make a rue!

Great job,,,yum,,,, Have you ever noticed that the food you cook at a camp site tastes better than the food in a kitchen, the same recipe, that is...?

your face after the first bite, priceless. can olive oil be substituted for the veg oil?

no salt?

sounds good add a nice crusty Irish soda bread for soppin up the gravy and you got a meal. www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/irish_beef_stew/

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Just because you are in the woods you are not suppose to starve and not have the comfort foods

you haven't made stew, you made soup. You cooked it to fast at too high of at temperature.