Dutch Oven Liners are great to use while camping. Find out how easy it is to make your own.
We love cooking in a cast iron Dutch oven. We have joined custody of two of them.
They belong to a close friend, but she doesn’t camp much anymore. We kept borrowing them so she said just hold onto them.
We like to cook desserts and main dishes in them. You can see our Dutch oven creations here.
Have you ever tried cleaning a Dutch oven while camping? It can be a pain, so we like to use Dutch oven liners. They help keep the food from sticking to the side of the pot.
You can purchase liners here, but we figured out that it’s much cheaper to make them yourself.
Dutch Oven Liners are incredibly easy to make. All you need is a roll of parchment paper, a measuring tape, and scissors.
DIY Dutch Oven Liners
Directions at the bottom of this post.
There are no special instructions for cooking with a liner and your food will taste the same as if you don’t use a liner.
Clean up is a snap! Just pull out the liner and toss it when done.
We will use our liner to wrap any leftovers. How simple is that?
Here is another great Camping DIY Project-
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Portable Washing Machine
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DIY Dutch Oven Liners
Making your own Dutch Oven liners is simple! They will make clean up a snap!
Materials
- parchment paper
Tools
- scissors
- measuring tape
Instructions
- Measure the width of the parchment paper.
- Cut a piece of parchment the length of the measurement you just took to get a square.
- Take the square and fold it into fourths.
- With your finger on the inside corner, fold the outside corners together.
- Fold the side corners across to the flat edge.
- Cut the point off along the top edge of the layers you just folded.
- Lay the folded paper inside your dutch oven with the point on the center of the pot.
- Press a fold where the bottom of the pot meets the side.
- Open up the folded liner and lay it in the dutch oven.
- The side edges will push flatter when filled with food.
Julie
Sunday 19th of September 2021
I do same for preparing and cooking lasagna in a cast iron skillet and ‘baking’ on our gas grill. Safe and clean also!
Galan Johannsen
Saturday 27th of November 2021
@Julie, Haven't tried "baking" on our gas grill. What temperature would you take the grill to for baking lasagna? I made parchment liners for my jumbo muffin tin to freeze sweet potatoes that had been roasted---made into individual servings for daughter and granddaughter to prepare quickly during their hectic schedules.
Diana Hansen
Monday 27th of September 2021
nice!
Fred Swanson
Tuesday 30th of June 2020
You don't need a tape measure to get a square. Hold the roll in your left hand and pull the paper off the roll with your right. Take the upper right corner and pull it down and to the left so the right edge lines up with the bottom edge. Cut off the formed triangle and you have your square when you open it up.
Let's Camp S'more
Tuesday 30th of June 2020
Thank you for the tip!
Tony Nicholls
Thursday 17th of October 2019
Love this Liner. Till now I've either gone with no liner or used foil, this is great
Let's Camp S'more
Monday 21st of October 2019
So easy, right?!
Wes
Sunday 9th of September 2018
Do you put the liners in an un-greased dutch oven and if the recipe calls to greasing or spraying (with a nonstick cooking spray) the dutch oven before do you do that to the liner? Thanks...it took me awhile to figure out how to fold them but once I got the hang of it they went really fast. I'm going to try this in 2 weeks when I go on a kayak trip!
letscampsmore
Monday 10th of September 2018
We do not spray the liners at all. Enjoy your trip!