Kent Rollins' Dutch Oven Cooking School

You know, I had people, when I'd be on the road, people would ask me, said, you know, I'd like to learn to cook like you do

of them Dutch ovens, you know, and have a ranch setting. So I got to thinking about it

I decided that I would try to have cooking school in a setting that was just like any old cow camp that I'd ever been in

People come, they sleep in range teepees, and they learn to cook it. an old Dutch oven just like the way I did, just like old cookie did many years before me

Be sure and rotate your oven, be. Lead one way in the pot to other so we can try to even

out all the heat. You've got one spot that ain't as hot as the other and check every

once in a while, Bee. Oh, they're pretty. Yes, they are, aren't they? Spreading out and

growing siredo cinnamon rolls. Yours is ahead of juniper's. Woo hotly. We might even pull yours off a little

It's prying a little on one side. The biggest mistake at school when people first learned to cook

because the first morning I give them biscuits and I don't tell them nothing, just tell them to cook

Too many colds is the first thing. They put too many coals under an oven or too many coals on top of them

And you end up with something burnt pretty quick and then they make the second mistake

After that, they don't put enough cold in. put enough cold in. And different wood makes different cold, different variables

in the amount of wind you have, the temperature it is, and the humidity all affects the way wood burns

and what you're cooking. You'll do two things a lot in cooking school

Make a lot of bread and wash a lot of dishes That part of the speed You know it actually true Bread and dessert are the hardest two things you can learn to cook in a Dutch oven

And if you can master the art of cooking bread and dessert in a Dutch oven

well, you'll be a pretty good Dutch oven cook. It takes practice, practice, and more practice

Lay of throat away so many biscuits by the time Saturday morning gets here

that tecunas and possums won't even eat them no more. Sourdough is our main staple that we make bread or dessert out of, and our sardough

blueberry turnovers or any pie filling you want to work are sure enough good

and more fiction to make some. The bottom of that, you have to read

You know, I like for people to come in and they see a setting that you would, just like on any working ranch

When you come in there and there's five or six TPs pitched, an old wagon set up there to fly

and that old big wood stove of mine is putting out to smoke up there on top of that old chimney pipe

And it draws them back to a different place and time. I want people not only to learn and cook when they come, but see the surroundings that were a simpler time and life

Let people learn that you can actually prepare any kind of food in a Dutch oven that you can prepare in the house

Hey, babe! How many times you don't check that red? A lot

I told them you never look at them. We don't have to look at them

Then Saturday we invite people to come in on graduation day. Students are used to just cooking one dish at a time and that night on Saturday we don tell them what they going to cook until about 2 o in the afternoon and then we divide it up to where everybody has at least two sometimes three dishes to prepare all in once

They get to feel a little bit of what me and Shannon have always had and that is a little bit of stress that goes with catered

They may feed anywhere from 15 to 40 people that night and they get to realize that it's a little harder just to cook one dish. I mean

two dishes than it is just one. Then you throw in a different wood that will

sometimes throw in on Saturday night that makes a different pole and then you have a whole other variable. People get to feel about a little of the anxiety that

goes along in Dutch oven cooking when you're cooking for a trout. You know I always tell

people I want you to learn something more than just Dutch oven cooking when you come to school and we try to solve the problems of the world at times around that

old fire night sitting in there by old Bertha drinking coffee as she warned

you also find out that you can create many friends and you learn a whole lot about life

When you come to cooking school, we hope that you have learned something

We hope that you've got a whole lot more friends than you had

If you graduate, we'll even call you family. But takes you back, like I said, to a simpler time

Back when old cookie was on the trail in the 1980s and the 1890s And if you let yourself drift off there among them stars that you see at night you can almost see these visions as you watch Cowboys right up the creek

come into old cookie when he rings the dinner bells. So if you've got a hanker to really taste

the Old West and really know what it's like, come and learn to cook in a Dutch oven

an old Cal Cap setting, come visit me and Shannon. Saddle little kids let's get it up by the time that Oregon sun goes down this outfit's history

This outfit is history All I gathered around

One old boy gave two grand for banjo A banjo took his

Treanor apart when he tried to load him up for town Back in August

100 and more If you ever have a beer at the A-Dill store

Say hi to Chuck and Nanny I show you them big old steerheads up there pain

When you ask where have they gone, hell they gone like the MC Cadley

back in August 100 anymore. So come on, more, we're going to let this

say begin. Last to the big Ramo