The History & Timeline of Dutch Ovens

The term Dutch oven has been used widely for many types of covered cookware. They are still used today for camping and open-fire outdoor cooking. There are several accounts of the origins and proliferation of Dutch ovens. Does this Spark an idea?

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Ancient History
- Metal pots similar to Dutch ovens have been in use since the seventh century.
Early 1700s
- Abraham Darby, an English metalworker, traveled to Holland in 1704 to observe a metal casting process involving brass cast inside of a dry sand mold. He began manufacturing cookware using this process and sending it to the colonies. The name Dutch oven is said to have originated from this casting process.
Dutch Merchants
- In the mid to late 1700s, as settlers flocked to the new world, a large number of Dutch merchants peddled the cookware to settlers.
Late 1700s
- Lewis and Clark were said to have toted a Dutch oven on their journey westward in 1803. George Washington provided his troops with Dutch ovens during the Revolutionary War.
1800s
- The Dutch oven spread westward with settlers and was soon a necessity and a staple of the colonial kitchen. In 1896, Joseph Lodge began manufacturing cast-iron cookware and Dutch ovens in South Pittsburg, Tennessee. Today, Lodge is the largest manufacturer of Dutch ovens in the world.

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