I wish this guy was my neighbor. Not only could I leave my spare key with him, I could get invited to some cookouts.

Thank you so much for your tips. My wife and I cook with cast-iron for 32 years and my wife knew how to keep them treated, but the Good Lord called her home and I need all the tips you can give so I don't ruin her beloved cast-iron. Thank you and God bless 🙏

Hi Kent! This is Mrs. Lori from Whippoorwill Holler , On KZfaq, One of these days I want to come cook with you! My husband thinks your awesome We love outdoor cooking Your a wealth of knowledge, And fun to watch, Maybe I can make it to the Lebanon, Mo. Event, God Bless, Keep your powder dry!

I bought my first Dutch oven today and I’m going to use the neighbors fire pit to practice. Kent is my cast iron hero.

He could sell me rust scraped off of a Dutch oven and I would buy it! Haha first time watcher and I absolutely fell in love! He is the neighbor we all wish we had.

Cowboy Kent the myth the legend.

I hope Kent can keep doing these videos for the next 50 years. Don’t ever quit Kent

Practice, practice and more practice. That is the key to cooking.

I respect Kent and continue to watch because he always gives respect to service members. Bless up cowboy!

I don't think I ever cooked outdoors, much less with the Dutch Oven. so I am interested to learn more!

Years age I bought Lodge 12 " dutch oven and 12 " skillet. Took them to my work shop and polished the lid and skillet surface smooth and re-seasoned them. Use the lid for pancakes, both work great. I would recommend this for anyone

Spring is right around the corner always enjoy the next best recipe from you. Have an awesome day

WOW ! This is one of the most informative video for cast iron ! Thank you Kent and Shannon for all of your videos that you produce! May God bless y'all and America!

I sure appreciate you and your wisdom! This Panhandle of Texas gal sure misses home as I watch your videos! I live in South Carolina now

Practice, practice, practice.....sage advice from a master.

Hi Kent and Shannon. Really great informative video. Plenty of good tips when cooking outside with the iron. And YES…one CAN burn things very easy if you aren’t being aware. I was on a campout years ago with my Boy Scout troop and they wanted to make peach cobbler. We lined the #12 oven with foil for easier cleaning and poured in the mixture. We made a double batch and the boys said to cook it twice as long…so I did. I hadn’t made cobbler in iron before. Lots of other stuff, but this was my first baki g adventure. At about 30 minutes you could smell the cobbler just fine. I should have taken it off the heat right then, but left it for another 20 minutes. We laughed like crazy for the next 2 hours because I lifted the cobbler, now a black burnt hockey puck! There was just enough in the center for the 10 of us to have about a tablespoon a piece. I learned a valuable lesson that night. A double recipe doesn’t always mean double cooking time! Thank goodness my scouts were forgiving!

I use my cast iron Dutch oven on the stove top as a deep fryer for fish. Man, is that some good fish! And talk about a well seasoned piece of cast iron! Thanks for all the great tips, Kent. You truly are The Master!

wow! i've learned more about dutch oven cooking in 5 mins than i've learned in the last 5 years being an amatuer dutch oven cook! thank Kent just ordered the trivets. thank you so much definitely my favorite channel!

In scouts growing up, we camped every month out of the year. When that camping was not primitive, we always had our Dutch oven, and the go to all of the time was peach cobbler. Some Bisquick and a can of peaches always made the best dessert!

Kent and Shan, this is a great video! In under 17 minutes, you provide a wealth of knowledge about cooking with a Dutch oven/camp stove, which I imagine you’ve acquired through trial and error. Everything you said is the Gospel truth. Thank you for saving your viewers time and headaches. I’ll put in a plug for your trivets. They’re the best! Thanks again for all you do!!

Hi from Syracuse NY everyone thank you for sharing your cooking adventures

Shan knew he was about to point at the flag and got set up about 1 second early 👍 we love our camp oven and we love watching y’all cook. Thanks

I've always used a cake cooling rack in mine if I want a dead air space around what I'm cooking. I also bake bacon 🥓 on the rack, a whole pound at a time, takes about 25 minutes. My scout master showed us boys the easy way to feed a bunch of hungry boys fast and easy, as long as we had plenty of good fire wood 🪵🪓. That seems like a lifetime ago, almost 50 years ago. Take care of yourself and your family and furry kids. From Charlie.

Corn bread is a perfect idea for starting off. If the oven is too hot (easy to do) itll forgive you. Ya kinda want the bottom crunchy

What a guy, learned loads watching this, really enjoyed listening to him. Much appreciated. ☘️

You should do a video showing your full cast iron collection.

At last. A You Tube with NO politics!!! Love you guys.

Awesome Mr Rollins and thank you! I’ve been bumbling along with Dutch oven cooking on and off for years and I learned more from your video in 20 minutes then all that time spent burning food!

OUTSTANDING INFO, I BURNED A LOT OF FOOD GETTING THIS FAR ALONG. "GOD BLESS" YOU AND YOURS. LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC!

Hello from NE New Mexico! Thanks for all the great advice Kent.

Been cooking with cast irons skillets and Dutch ovens since the early 90’s and say that my ex wife took some but she didn’t realize had a stash of set Irons. And now since remarried to a beautiful woman for 14 years learned how to use her irons and gave her own little set of irons . Personally I think she improved on her cooking and even on her worse day can make the best supper

Perfect timing for inspirational spring video to get to the lake... and bake! Learning to bake ( and not burn) at a remote location is a rare skill. Thanks for putting this video together. It's got all the basics covered in short package.

Your video is GREATLY appreciated. As a Back Country Horsemen in NC, dutch ovens help us finish the day with some great meals not to mention desserts. Thanks for the tips and I'll try my best not to burn anything.

Kent & Shannon : The one... two.. punch... A++

I have used dutch ovens since I was 9 years old. I have my grandfather's oven (12 inch) and my mother's(12 inch) Favorite dish is biscuits in one and beff/lamb stew in other. Never any left overs. Thanks for all you and Ms SHANNON do.

I’ll vouch for the trivet as a great item. Any spot you can make a fire becomes a potential kitchen. Also, give the mountain man breakfast a shot if you’re new to it. Always a hit.

Great cast iron video!! Friend of mine this morning was asking about getting an education on cast iron skillet and Dutch ovens?! Told him watch your video today, Lol told him Kent Rollins cast iron university lol!!! Love you guys god bless you both always a pleasure to watch!!!🙏🙏

This channel is always an education....I have learned things I didn't know I needed to.

Cooking beans in mine right now. Navy beans, country ham pieces, salt, pepper, chopped onions, and Kenny's seasoning. Takes a couple hours even with soaked beans.

I'm paying close attention. Just bought a Dutch Oven and trying out different things. Cornbread, biscuits and meat dishes. It's really a cool art with historical significance. I'm looking forward to doing pizza. Thanks Cowboy!

I got 5qt camp oven about a month ago so this video was made with me in mind. I can’t wait for more recipes

the simple light weight item i use under pie pan is 3 canning jar rings when cooking pies or cakes

Great video. Semi retired my 12 inch dutch oven the kids are gone. Love my 8 inch for just the 2 of us .

Kent, just to let you know, bricquettes are glued together with starch, nothing harmful. That said, hardwood lump charcoal is best. I enjoy your videos.

My wife and I Injoy wachting your videos very much. I hope to share a cup of coffee with y'all sometime.

Great video today! Ken and Shannon, thank you so much. I can't imagine how much work goes into one video. But two each week? Please be assured we appreciate so very much the time and effort you put into this project, and we love you very much.

Great cooking information from one of the best trail Cooks in United States Kent Rollins, thank you for sharing all your tips and tricks with your cast iron skillets and you're dutch ovens. I really like the Horseshoe trivets that you've made the sell those are really nice. Thank you for sharing all this knowledge that you have with us to make us better at what we do God bless.

Before I stumbled onto this video I had two Dutch ovens!! I now have 1 Camp oven and 1 Dutch oven!!The magic of education on types of cast iron ovens!! lol Thanks Kent!

Really enjoyed this video sir. My son and I have been watching for years and have enjoyed several of your recipes in the backyard. We've been working with his scout troop (Troop 512 Schertz, TX) in an attempt to get them cooking more in a dutch. Some of the scouts seem a bit intimidated so I think we are going to share this video with his troop. Thank you to you, Shannon and "the beag" for all your help over the years.

Hello Kent I am an elderly fellow that loves to Smoke BBQ Dutch oven cook all of the above and I really enjoy watching your channel and I've learned a lot from you so I just wanted to say thanks and Happy Camp cooking...

I love these videos. I'm very curious cooking without electricity. This was a great learning moment.

Kent your content is so top notch and amazing every single time! What a great tutorial! Thank you!

Thank you for your tips. The first meal I produced was a kind of charcoal stew. I have to try it again.

Glad this video popped up again, I was just given a 20 quart Dutch oven after the last camping season.

I found this channel after getting hurt on duty a few days ago and been laid up at home. I've been binge watching ever since. Great stuff!

Thank you so very much for sharing all your best tips and tricks on how to cook the right way using a dutch over.youre the best..

Thank you Kent! That was very helpful. I expect to kill a few recipes on the cast iron, Dutch oven, cooking school trail, I do! But the trail becomes shorter and a lot less rugged with good information before I head out! God Bless Ya'll!

Thanks Kent, Shan, Andy and the pups.

Love your channel, Kent! Been watching for years, by far the most inspiring man on KZfaq. God bless you and your family!

My father kept the Dutch oven in the tent with us on cold nights during the duck hunt. He would cook the best meals in his 12 inch Griswold.

Thank you Kent and Shannon! This is one of my, in my opinion top 3 for cast iron cooking videos. Top notch. I'm buying my Lodge 12 in. shallow and 12 deep Lodge ... after the quality inspection you outlined in another video. God Bless you all and everyone.

Great tips on cooking with the Dutch oven. I really got to do much of my Dutch oven cooking when my boys were in Cub Scouts and especially Boy Scouts. We did some great dinners and some awesome desserts in them on our campouts and the boys especially liked doing a cobbler in them

I needed to know every single one of these tricks. Thanks!!

Thank you so much for the cast iron tips. One of the few momentos i have left from my grandma is her old 12" cast iron Dutch oven and cast iron skillet and id like to use them properly to honor her love of cooking

Finding a used campfire Dutch oven is really difficult here in the North Eastern Oklahoma. I am gonna have to buy a Lodge & go through the process of flattening the bottom & deep seasoning it. Thanks for yet another great tip & trick!

God bless you, Cowboy Kent.

If you're going to do a pizza use the oven upside down and cook on the lid. That way you can lift the oven out of the way and really see the pizza. Also it works as a plate for serving

My first time baking bread in a dutch oven I ended up with raw dough in the middle surrounded by charcoal. I learned my lesson and my next attempt was a perfect fluffy loaf with a nice golden brown crispy crust. 10/10 I love cooking in a dutch oven.

Omg I love him. I so felt that hug too. ☺️

This guy is a perfect gentleman, not a lot of people take off their hats at the right time nowadays.

This was so helpful, you answered a lot of questions about Cast Iron Dutch Ovens. Thank you

Bless you, Mr. and Mrs. Rollins!

I haven't seen you for a while! I have taught my youngest son well! Christmas he got me a dutch oven, a trivet and a long lid lifter. And they are all Lodge products!

Camping with the Boy Scouts for 26 years, my “lid lifter” was a large pair of “water pump” (Channel Lock) pliers.

THANK YOU!!! Love this info!! The lid? Poof mind blown! Who da thunk

Thanks for all your guidance, it’s really appreciated

Great tips!!! I love the advice on what to cook until a beginner has built up experience. Wow! And the equipment advice like the shovel! I am very grateful! Thanks Mr. Kent!

Love these quick tips and tutorials.

Years ago a man give me a tool for removing a pan from inside a camp oven, it's long, locks and is more dependable than pliers, but don’t know if he made it, had it made or bought it, could've been an antique, but it works. Folks just have to go through a trial by fire, or rather coals, to get used to cooking in camp ovens. Cooking with wood coals is more controllable than on a flaming fire. Cooking with briquettes just loads the taste of fire starter and whatever them briquettes are made of into your food, and they don't last no time at all. Using a trivet helps you gain control too. Before going camping, start you up a fire in the back yard and try making cornbread in your camp oven. You might burn it or not get it done enough right off, but it's better than starving by the campfire because you didn't bother to try it out first. Cornbread is a good choice to start with because it's cheap, and you can even make hot water cornbread instead of using milk to make it even cheaper. It was a good tip about holding your hand over the coals for five seconds, but I've found that some folks is pansies and will remove their hand after two seconds when I could leave my hand there for ten. When you clean your camp oven, dry it over hot coals to remove moisture, smear it with some bacon grease or a piece of fat and set it back over the coals until they die out to season it and prevent future sticking or the formation of rust, which can make you sick, and yes, the lid too. Get a good season on your cast iron and it'll beat any poisonous- chemical- releasing- non-stick pan you can come up with, and you can cook with it on a campfire, on the stove top or in an oven.

Thanks for all the info. I started to slow down and relax just watching this!

Just started cooking with Dutch/ Camp Ovens Last , Outside. Inherited my Mothers two pots and The Frying pan yrs ago. Learning Slot From my Mistakes! Made it to about 70% Correct?! Love ALL the information you provide to us!

G'morning from Germany🌞i ts 6:30 and I am watching this...🤘👍🌻🌞❤️🇩🇪❤️🇺🇸

VERY informative and practical tips for novices and seasoned cooks too. Thanks for sharing

Loved this video. Chalked full of great info! Thanks y’all!!! Y’all are the ones who got me started with open fire cast iron cooking. Thank you guys for making it feel like home

Thanks for the tutorial. Dutch Oven does a lot of cooking. So it needs care. That's here you are.

The Maj had that look “What am I doing over here? Dad ain’t cooking nothing!!”. But, it was still a good video!! Thanks!

Tried the Cornish hen recipe Saturday it got unusually warm in N.E PA for mid March, turned out great, burned the bacon a bit because a heavy rain storm came in, and waited until it slowed down a bit before going out and checking when I normally would. I will definitely make that again

Needed this, just bought my first cast iron camp oven. Enjoy watching you.

Hi Kent, I like to thank you very much for your informative and detailed Dutch Oven video. Take care & try to stay out of trouble!

I begin watching for whatever the description says. But end up enjoying these so much, I hate to see them end.

Priceless!

Lots of good information Kent. Thank you. Have a good week.

Thanks for the encouragement

Thanks Kent! Love my Lodge Dutch oven

Great video, awesome people and pups. Always a pleasure to watch and learn from you guys.

Thankyou Kent, I've been watching your videos for years and cook with a dutch oven on a regular basis, but this video has been the most helpful of all! I'll only use hard wood from now on!!

Always love the Cast Iron videos. Thank you and God Bless you, Kent and Shan, :)

Excellent video!!! Thanks a ton for your tips and advices. You're the Master Kent. !!

The first thing I ever cooked in a cast iron camp oven was biscuits and gravy and they turned out perfect. Love these ovens!!

Thanks for the tips Kent