Idaho Whitewater Association kickstarts events with dutch oven cook-off [Video]

GARDEN CITY, Idaho — Multi-day raft trips are an adventure, but with the equipment we have these days people aren’t exactly roughing it out there as on every trip I’ve been on we eat like royalty.

However, one of the ways rafters feed big groups is an old-school method using cast iron and heating a dutch oven with coals.

“I’d say cast iron and dutch oven cooking on the river is what barbecue is on the ranch,” said Kevin Price, who came down for this event from Riggins. “This one I remember as a kid mom cooking chili in it, I think it is my great grandmother’s so mom thinks it could have come from Wales.”

On Wednesday, the Idaho Whitewater Association hosted a dutch oven cook-off and Kevin Price tried a new recipe. He called it smoked seafood alfredo.

“The reason that cast iron is so popular with a lot of cooks is that once …