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You can get a sense of the earth's rotation from this video - the night sky is stablised and remains fixed while the earth moves around it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tipr89oPSuM

We were out in the middle of the Cotswolds on Friday and Saturday night. Brilliant show... clear skies and less light polution that back home meant we saw loads of shooting stars.

It was watching MartinK9, Mesquite and Wayland (among others) at Rough Close meets that made me want to try a Dutch Oven. :) Next challenge is to cook a decent baked desert - I suspect that might be slightly more temperamental!

Finally got a chance to christen my Ronnie Sunshine's Dutch Oven this evening - rather than start off gently I decided to throw caution to the wind and cook a proper family meal. Part of the reason I bought a 12" oven was so I could cook roasts etc rather than just stews (which work just as well...

Some pics added [here] showing progress so far!

First pass seasoning done! Not as much smoke as I feared and there is a lovely black sheen on the dutch oven now. I went with sunflower oil in the end - what I thought was rapeseed oil was actually grapeseed oil, which has a much lower smoke point than sunflower (216C vs 232C). I reckon...

Slightly off-topic now but do people allergic to nuts generally react to peanuts too, given than peanuts are not "real" nuts (are they more like peas?) I can't imagine much of the active "nutty" compounds are left after a good heating at 250C in any case?

Lovely stuff - many thanks. Weather looks OK tomorrow so I can leave the kitchen door and windows open to clear any smoke :) Will try a straight series of seasoning first... not sure I want to be sanding out the bottom just yet but if it starts catching when I cook I'll head down to B&Q and...

Will check it out - any chance you can remember a link to it?

Excellent service from Ronnie Sunshines... oven arrived today, got here in the 1hr window they promised, first time I've ordered from them but so far am impressed. Will add a couple of pics of the bag when I unpack it all later, then just need to work out which recipe to cook this weekend...

Thanks all - what's generally the best way to store a dutch oven? I'm in the UK (damp climate) and it would be mostly kept in an insulated but unheated loft. I could leave it open to the air but it's quite dusty in the loft so it would probably end up covered in dust especially if it was oiled...

I think if we end up ordering a few for the scouts we'll get them to make covers like you describe.

Cheers, just placed the order with the bag included so will see how it goes. I think you can probably use the bag to store cooking kit on camp as well, so it's probably worth £10.

I'm about to order a dutch oven from Ronnie Sunshines... probably the 8 ltr version so we can cater for cub camp if needed. Has anyone bought the carry bag for their oven? Is it worth it? I figure I should be cleaning the oven after each camp, so it ought not to go in the car with ash all over...

One more +1 for the Alpkit Gamma :-) I took the top-of-the-head strap off mine, and having the battery pack at the back works well as you have the extra red LED for walking down country lanes etc.