Are these any good? Would they melt?

[bambodoggy]

Hey All,

I've had my eye on a dutch oven for years now and the last few trips I've been on where people have had them and used them to makes stews and breads etc has almost conviced me to buy one.....almost

Anyway, one of the biggest put offs for me is the weight of the things so when I came across these I wondered if they'd be any good. Certainly I've managed to melt through ali cookware on fires before so I'm aware it's possible but do you think it would happen to these?

http://www.camping-gear-outlet.com/camping-gear-9840.html

Anyone seen or used an ali dutch oven before?

Many thanks in advance,

Bam.

 

[Bardster]

Sam some of that stuff at the recent Kent game fair - really looks the biz!

 

[tomtom]

i dont know about melting them.. i think that would probably be quite difficult, but i understand they are relativly easy to crack if you do not treat them properly when heating/cooling rapidly (eg when adding a lot of cold water to a hot pot) there is tonnes of books and info on US sites about cooking specificly in a duch oven (if you have rutstrums 'new way of the wilderness' i think there is a chapeter on it) i think if you read up on how to look after them you should be fine with one.

EDIT: doh.. i really should have read bams post in full shouldnt i.

 

[Bardster]

Some of the ones i've seen are titanium coated, or type III anodised - obviously a tad more expensive.....

 

[Nemisis]

Found this one in ali http://www.trekdirect.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Other_Cookware_53.html but never used one. tomtom isn't it the cast iron ones that are likely to crack rather than aluminium?
Dave.

 

[Friar Tuck]

Does anybody know where I can get a set of three/four LARGE cook pots that will stack into each other? We take groups of upto 10 away so they need to be quite large sizes. One to be used for a constant supply of boiling water and the rest for warming curries/chillies/rices, beans/scrammbled eggs etc.
The main features is that they stack into each other to save space and can be used on an open fire and they are large. Not too bothered about weight.
Kindest regards.
Johnny F

 

[Nemisis]

I found this one on a google Friar any good? http://www.outdoorworld.org.uk/acatalog/Pan_Sets.html#a029491 scroll down last item.
Dave.

 

[bushtuckerman]

I'd always go for stainless, but to each their own. You can be pretty sure it won't melt and you can scrub it clean. when non-stick starts to come away you can't scrub off dirt without ruining it further. And aluminium gets bashed about a fair bit, though i wouldn't worry too much about the alzheimers threat (if you were), i think that has been disproved. Aluminium generally can only be properly cleaned (to shiny) by removing a layer of aluminium oxide, which dangerous or not will end up partly in your food, mostly in the dish water.

 

[Friar Tuck]

Hi Dave, they need to be alot bigger and more robust as they will get a fair bit of a hammering. But thanks anyway

Johnny F