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It's a type of oven of course, ergo the name... it's a vessel of a configuration that is used for baking directly in an open fire, typically when no other oven is available or in conjunction with a stationery chambered oven. However nowadays the name "Dutch Oven" is really used as a misnomer, as it's used to describe any large pot (which is really a sauce pot and not a dutch oven at all, has no semblence to a dutch oven at all) typically used to cook stews and soups, not for baking. Hardly anyone these days owns an actual dutch oven, and even if they did they'd have no way to properly use it in their home... modern homes don't have open cooking hearths. The last time homes in the US were built with open cooking hearths (which also served as central heating) was about 1850.
Smell of pork Is it just meOver the past year or so, I've returned 2 pork shoulder roasts to the store. I've put them in the 'frige for cooking within 48 hours and they stank when I opened them, and...
There are no recipes whatsoever that "require" a dutch oven... just bake in whatever oven you have in your kitchen. A dutch oven is not a stew pot... even hundreds of years ago when all cooking was over an open fire stew pots were very different from dutch ovens.
Sheldon
