My Favorite Tools for Dutch Oven Cooking

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You know, whatever you're doing in life, whether you're cooking, riding horses, or anything else

you want to do it to where you're most comfortable with it, because when you're most comfortable

that's when you're going to do your best job. And sure, I have my go-to tools that I use all the time that just sort of like fit like a glove

They're the ones I'm used to, the ones that always get me by. All right, we've got these two trits, short and tall

About two and a half probably here and nearly six here. Now, if I'm just cooking baked potatoes, baking a casserole

you think, hey, you think, hey, this thing's got legs on, ain't that enough

Well, you put a pile of coals out there and you set this heavy oven right down there in them colds

them coals. Them coals are right here against the bottom of that oven. That's why I use a trivet

Might are made of horseshoes, but hey, you can get a made out of anything in the world

I've seen them to where there's two horseshoes in their stack like this. But I recommend two different heights

We set this oven on here baked potatoes casseroles something like that Coals around the outside edge you can see we still off of the coal after we put it under here but if it was just on them legs we be touching

Now if I'm going to go up here and I'm going to bake cake, pies, bread pudding, biscuits, unless I'm in a hurry

I'm going to use this tall trivet. It gives me a little more room from the coal to the bottom of the oven

So get you two of them. I don't care what you get you. what you get them made out of, give yourself some variation in height. Only time I'm ever

going to set a Dutch oven directly in the colds, see if I'm in a bind and I'm trying to warn

something real quick, but you have to be careful because the bottom of that oven against them

colds, it'll burn pretty quick. You're cooking with this. We got this on these trivets. These

old things are hot. First of all, I'd recommend you. My little sweet wife, Shannon, got these for me

Get you something that's heat resistant, something where you can grab this even when it's hot, it still ain't going to burn you

So get you a good pair of good gloves. A lot of people use welders gloves. You can get these grill guards, grill mates

But you've got to have a good lid lifter too. Get something that you comfortable with that when you put it on there it going to hold this lid This lid lifter is a little more secure Shand she really prefers this one over anything because you can grip that lid

You can see it's spring loaded here with your hand. It'll grab

You keep a firm grip on that handle. It ain't going nowhere

They're easy to rotate with, but also they have the hook. Pick that bell up just like that

Now I like these old things that I made years ago. years ago you can see what the difference is in length I'm a long way from

burning my fingers on them colds I promise you listen here in the summertime

sometimes you gotta wear a glove it's pretty hot but this one here comes in

really handy horseshoe in the back put a little force on it pick it up but also

it's good to shake them colds off that Dutch of them. Next thing we got to have

We gotta have something to get them coals out of that old stove or out of that fire pit

And this is a shovel. Some of you saying, hey, y'all got bad termites up in y'all's country, then I eat a hole in that shovel

I always put holes in shovels I'm cooking with. When I reach in there and get coals out of that old wood stove I sift that ash Ash isn cooking ash is only insulating So I can get live coals place them around them trivets always shaking the ash out Alright you know when we get through cooking these old ovens and they cooled off

they're covered with residue left over from cold, makes an old ash you prod of it

Get you something, little old whisk room, something that you can get in here

you can clean this oven out with. Thank you, Stan, for making them broom

making them broom brother. You ain't got one of them? Hey there's always this wire brush

You can get in here and clean what you got to do. When you go to clean something out of a Dutch

oven and I always going to use this. Old Mitch made this for me. Used to be an old wagon boat

You know I never scrape metal against metal. I'll use wood. This used to be an old wagon boat

Been shaved down. Scraping around here. The corners is rounded. So they'll fit in

in the corner. Get you some tools you're really comfortable with. Get you two kinds of

Trevix. Short and the tall. Get you a shovel, got some holes in it. A good pair of gloves

Some lid lifters you feel like you can live with. Get you a dutch of and build you fire

and get out there and let's cook something