Outdoor Cooking with Dutch Ovens
Outdoor Cooking with Dutch Ovens!
Relying on simple recipes, fresh ingredients, easy techniques, and the most basic equipment, you can create wonderful hearty camp meals that will become lifelong favorites. Outdoor cooking doesn’t need to be elaborate to be fantastic, nor does it have to rely on processed, canned, or freeze-dried ingredients. A few good ingredients, simply prepared, can always make a delicious meal—even with only one main cooking vessel: the Dutch oven. Made of cast iron, a Dutch oven is incredibly durable, conducts heat beautifully, and is versatile enough to cook just about everything.
Workshop Details:
2026 DATE: Sunday, April 12th
LOCATION: Camp River Ranch
33300 NE 32nd St
Carnation, WA
TIME: 9:30am - 4:30pm
REGISTRANTS: 18yrs and older
REGISTRATION FEE: $95
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: April 5th
Step 1. Read through all the course details below.
Step 2. Click on the “Register Here” button to sign up – limited spaces are available (45) so don’t delay. When you get to the registration form, if it indicates we are now full, you can ask to be added to the waitlist.
Step 3. Make registration payment. The workshop fee of $95 includes expert instruction, a Dutch Oven cookbook, use of all necessary equipment, resources and beverages.
Please note: the recipes included to be tasted in this workshop course will include vegetarian options. You are welcome to bring your own snacks and beverages.
This one-day workshop will cover the following:
The history of cooking with Dutch ovens, types, and why it is great for camping,
How to use a Dutch oven in various ways: to bake, stew, use as a fryer, smoker, etc…
How to prep a fire and start coals,
Dishwashing at camp, storing and transporting,
Other essential equipment, how to set up a camp kitchen and make a camp cooking kit,
How to adapt recipes and various heat sources,
Safety, seasoning and care,
Camping hacks and more…..
Our instructors will plan to demonstrate how to create delicious, wholesome meals right at your campsite using just a few fresh ingredients and share tried-and-true recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert that go beyond what you’d expect of campfire cooking. Hands-on time will allow participants to test out some recipes likely to include: soda cake, corn fritters, Cajun pasta, cheesy biscuits, beef and/or bean chili, quiche, chicken pot pie and more.
Please bring your own brown bag lunch or snacks if you do not want to participate in the demo eating portions of the day and your beverage of choice. WOW will also provide snacks & beverages. Picnic table seating is available but you might want to bring your own camp chair. Plumbed restrooms are nearby our cook shelter.
Registration
Course registration & confirmation is on a first-come basis. ONE registrant per online form. Your workshop fee MUST accompany your online registration form. After you have registered and paid the fee, you will receive an email confirmation that will provide a suggested “to bring” list, and an agenda for the day along with camp directions. Your registration is not fully processed until you receive this confirmation email (please be sure to check your spam folders).
At registration check-in, you will be asked to sign a waiver. This waiver states that you recognize this program involves some risk and you take responsibility for all your actions and injuries that may result by participating, and you grant WOW permission to publish photographs or digital images, with or without your name for editorial and advertising purposes.
Scholarship Option
A limited number of partial scholarships are available for the Dutch Oven workshop this year and will be awarded based on need, to women 18-years and older, and who are Washington state residents. Consideration will be given to single parents, low-income applicants, and full-time students.
Thanks to a generous grant, the scholarship recipient will only pay 25%, or $24 of the $95 registration fee. Only one scholarship per applicant/family will be awarded in each calendar year. Because WOW hopes to reach as many women as possible, preference is given to applicants who have never attended a WOW workshop. Scholarships will be awarded by a review committee. Before you complete the registration form, please complete the online application below.
Cancellation
The cancellation deadline is 5pm on April 5th. All requests for a refund must be emailed in and will be charged an admin fee of $30. No refunds can be issued after April 5th. You may send a substitute in your place, but you must first notify us of this change. Please contact: Lori Johnson at lorij@washingtonoutdoorwomen.org.
Additional Information:
Lodging is available nearby at Tolt MacDonald Park (tent, RV, yurt, etc.)
**Please notify us if you have any dietary allergies or restrictions in your registration form and we will do our best to accommodate. Note… given the nature of this class and the advance preparation required, significant deviation from the menu may not be possible.
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