If you're already doing dutch oven while camping, the "lid-lifter" (really it's much more than that) looks pretty cool. Especially folding into a 12" oven!
On the other hand, my Lodge lifter will *only* lift the lid, but there seems to be somewhere to put it whenever I've needed to.
But, after many years, I'm off the dutch oven; it's just too much time. And too much weight for something that I might use once a year when camping. I'd rather be walking around, swimming, or boating all afternoon... or just chillin'... than firing the charcoal at 3:30 so we can eat around 6, followed by major cleanup. Although, we did use it in early fall for Green Bar stew with bisquik dumplings - yum!
Just on the use of a lid as a griddle - well, of course it works, but it's a darn small griddle. I carry a coated aluminum griddle (or cast-iron), which will serve 1 to 6 people with easy cleanup. I think with the dutch oven lid 3 would be a crowd.
Along those same lines of not wanting to spend so much time cooking & cleaning any more, we've moved off pancakes to french toast (cooks fast!), and there's a new semi-cooked Oscar Mayer bacon that doesn't need refrigeration but tastes almost as good as raw bacon. Um, cooked raw bacon. On a griddle, on the stove.
On the other hand, if you really enjoy Dutch Oven cooking in camp this could be just the ticket! Somebody really did put a lot of thought into their product line. For me, I'm thinking I ought to get the Dutch Oven out at home and see what it'll do there.
Edited by Seth, 07 October 2016 - 12:49 AM.
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