Using the Camp Chef Big Gas Grill as a Dutch oven table
In my quest to limit my camping inventory list and the accompanying weight issues, I have been able to develop a couple of clever ideas; some of you have viewed these in my new DVD “Taking your Dutch oven to the Max” and I have shared many through Twitter, Facebook and Cooking-Outdoors.com. My latest frustration has been the packing two cooking platforms, my Camp Chef Big Gas Grill and a Dutch oven cooking table for camping, along with the various additional pieces required to prepare my meals at camp.
I was working on a new camping recipe, “Dutch oven Pigs in the Hole Pancake Recipe” and just did not want to drag out my Dutch oven cooking table that day. My Camp Chef Big Gas Grill is always available on my patio for cooking and I decided to put it to good use with the addition of just one camping accessory I never leave at home, “Aluminum foil”. This allowed me to use the grill box and side burner to prepare my recipe.
This allows me the ability to flex my cooking techniques, keep my cooking arsenal to a minimum along with a fast and easy clean-up.
The photos below give you a good idea of how I did it.
If you have any Camp Chef Big Gas Grill tips or tricks, please share them here! Would love to know how you do it.
Would you suggest doing the same thing but with the griddle plate instead?
Austin,
A grill plate or any iron plate would work great. I was only trying to minimize the payload I take camping. Camp Chef makes a Dutch oven dome that works with a heat defector for the Big Gas Grill burner. lots of options.
Gary!
This idea has been crossing my mind since buying an EX 2 burner. I guess you brought it to the “front burner”. How about sheet metal to the size of the grill? A local firm might help me.
Yes, any type of plate would work, sheet metal would be ideal. I was just going with the lightest posible method.
I tried a Walmart $44 firepit, put a 16″ piaza pan on the grate, then hot coals from chimney starter on pan, and then the DO with coals on top. Worked fantastic and after we used Rome pig irons in the coals for treats