Seconds
Temperature
1
500+
2
500
3
450
4
400
5
350
6
300
7
250
8
200
This is my preferred method.
It is consistent and detects temperature instead of estimating the
amount of fuel. You do release heat so you need to do the check as
quickly as you can.
Counting
Charcoal
Lots of dutch oven cookbooks tell you how many charcoal briquettes
to put under and on top of the oven. This is the easiest way to
cook since every coal is similar and consistent. If you are like me
and use real wood for your outdoor camp cooking coals, it doesn't
help much. Also, different brands of charcoal give off different
amounts of heat. But, let's say you are going to use
charcoal...
The normal formula is to use twice the number of briquettes as the
diameter of the oven. For a 12 inch
