The Dutch Oven

The Dutch Oven is a old version of a frying pan or roasting pan. The Dutch Ovens started production in the 1700s. Dutch ovens are shut up used for many things, like cobblers and roasts. Dutch ovens were made of brass in the first couple of grades that they were made. Then a man by the name of Abraham Darby visited the Netherlands and wanted to regard the the production of the Dutch Oven. When he figured out how to make the oven he traveled back to England. When he returned home he was trying to find a way to make a cheaper version of the oven. His grounding was made of a more economical metal of cast iron.The Americans found out about these dutch ovens and they brought them into their colonies. The famous patriot Paul Revere was credited with adding the peg legs on the pots and the flat top eyelid with a rack that would hold the coals. All of the settlers and the colonists that have moved to america used these pot because of their military capability and there versatility. When Lewis and Clark set out on there expositions they took a Dutch Oven with them all the way finished the american west. The Dutch oven was one of the many things that Lewis and Clark brought home with them at the end of there exposition.In the year of 1896 a man by the name of Joseph Lodge founded a confederacy that would make and sell Dutch ovens. This company was located in the state of Tennessee. The name of this company is called Lodge the owner named it after himself. right away the company is sells more dutch ovens than any of the other companys in the world. There was also another company that was founded it was called Le Creuset.Le Creuset was built and constructed in the French town of Fresnoy-le-Grand. This company made Dutch Ovens and preparedness supplies like Lodge did. Le Creuset is famous for the really slap-up quality of its iron and for the really good quality of their enamel coatings. Even though the Dutch oven is a older style of pot it is still used today to cook food.