How To Use Dutch Oven Liners

Making Dutch oven camping recipes is a whole lot more fun when clean-up is fast!

When you know how to use Dutch oven liners to make a variety of different foods like soups and stews … cakes and pies … camp cooking and baking is easy!

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Why Use Liners In Your Cast Iron Dutch Oven?

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One of our favorite camp cooking tips and tricks is to reduce or possibly eliminate the need for cleaning your Dutch oven by using liners.

A disposable aluminum liner keeps your Dutch oven clean while both parchment and foil liners easily lift baked goods out of your oven including our Dutch oven berry cobbler camping recipe.

Disposable aluminum liners come in pre-formed sizes and work
with standard oven sizes so you need to get the appropriate size to fit your
oven.


Types Of Dutch Oven Liners

There are so many things to learn about how to use a Dutch oven while camping, here we are focusing solely on the use of liners.

How To Use A Dutch Oven While Camping by CampingForFoodies is a closeup of two camp Dutch ovens. One is stacked on top of the other. They both have charcoal briquettes on their lids and the bottom oven has coals below it sitting on a cast iron griddle on top of green grass. Both ovens are cooking Dutch oven camping recipes that are ready to be served outside at a sunny campsite with text over the image reading how to use Dutch ovens.

Re-Usable vs. Disposable

Some cast iron Dutch oven liners are intended to be single use while others are designed to be used many times.


Silicone Dutch Oven Liners

Re-usable liners are made from silicone and are just like
any other piece of cooking equipment that you set inside your oven.

As far as I have been able to determine, these are no longer
available.

I think partially because when campers want to use a liner, one
of the main reasons they are using it is to avoid having to clean a pot …
whether it be cast iron or silicone.


Can You Use Foil In A Dutch Oven?

You can use foil in your camp Dutch oven … two different
ways.

It is easy to just rip a piece of aluminum foil off of your
roll and form it around the inside of your Dutch oven to line the bottom and
the walls of your oven.

This type of liner is best for baked goods.

Alternatively, you can use pre-formed foil liners.


Pre-Formed Foil Dutch Oven Liners

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Liners that are made from a heavy duty aluminum foil are
designed to be single-use but they are sturdy enough to be cleaned and used
multiple times as well as recycled.

It is important that you get the right size …

You can use 12 inch Dutch oven liners in any size oven that is a 12” or larger oven.

Likewise, you can use 10 inch Dutch oven liners in any size
oven that is a 10” or larger oven.

And so on…

Contrarily, you CAN’T fit a 12-inch foil liner in a 10-inch Dutch oven.

In other words, as long as the oven is larger than the
aluminum foil Dutch oven liners you are putting inside … you are good to go.

Some pre-formed foil liners come with handles and others are
designed without them.

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Some people don’t like using foil because they think it
changes the flavor of foods cooked with it.

The nice thing about pre-formed foil is that it works with baked goods as well as liquids like soups, stews and meals with sauces.

Another reason pre-formed aluminum foil liners are great is
for cooking acidic foods, like tomato-based sauces, because the food’s acid wears
away the seasoning layer on the cookware. More on this later.


Cupcake Foil Liners

If you want to make individual servings of baked goods, instead of using one large Dutch oven liner you can use several cupcake foil liners like we did when we made our Chocolate Lava Dutch Oven Cakes Camping Recipe.

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The foil cupcake liners are not heavy duty so, as you can see, the cakes form slightly irregular shapes and they need to fill the bottom of the oven because they “hold each other in place” as they bake.

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Can I Use Parchment Paper In A Dutch Oven?

There are two different ways you can use parchment paper in
your camp Dutch oven.

Just as you do with aluminum foil, you can get a roll of
parchment paper and tear off the amount you need to line your Dutch oven.

Unlike aluminum foil, parchment paper is not easily molded
to the inside of your oven because it does not hold its shape like foil does.

When lining your oven with a sheet of parchment paper, place
it in your Dutch oven and do your best to shape it to fit along the bottom and
up the sides of the oven … then … fold over the excess paper or cut if off.

You can see how I used this method when I made our Dutch oven bread camping recipe.

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Alternatively, you can use pre-cut parchment paper liners.


Pre-Cut Parchment Paper Dutch Oven Liners

Unlike foil liners, parchment liners are not good for
cooking meals with liquids.

You’ll love using parchment liners when you make Dutch oven baked goods like cakes, pies and breads.

The really nice thing about pre-cut parchment liners (as opposed to pre-formed foil liners) is the fact that size is not critical.

These are universal 20-inch diameter parchment paper liners.

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How Do You Make Dutch Oven Liners

If you want to save a little cash, you can make your own DIY
parchment paper Dutch oven liners!


Can You Use Wax Paper In A Dutch Oven

You should never use wax paper in your Dutch oven because it is not heat resistant.

At high temperatures, the wax will actually melt.


Drawbacks To Using Dutch Oven Liners

As you can see, Dutch oven liners have lots of benefits but
you would not want to use them all the time.

Why?

Because proper cleaning and seasoning cast iron Dutch oven cookware is good for it.

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You actually want to build up the seasoned surface on cast
iron Dutch ovens and skillets to produce a slick non-sticking surface.

How does that work?

When you cook directly in the cast iron pan with fat and oil,
you build up a protective layer that bonds with the iron nearly creating a
non-stick surface that gets even better over time.

So, as much as you might love using Dutch oven liners, you don’t want to cook with them exclusively.


Managing the temperature of your Dutch oven out in the
elements can be a challenge.

Get our simple tips for Dutch oven temperature control!

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