Meaning
A heavy, round cast-aluminium or cast-iron cooking pot with a close-fitting lid — the workhorse of the Jamaican kitchen, called affectionately the 'dutchie'. Its thick walls hold and spread the heat evenly, which is exactly why rice and peas, stews, and puddings come out right in it, and why a well-used dutch pot, black and seasoned with years of cooking, is a treasured thing handed down in a family.
Examples
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Cook di rice an peas inna di dutch pot.
Cook the rice and peas in the dutch pot.
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Di ole dutchie black but it cook sweet.
The old dutch pot is black but it cooks well.
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Every Jamaican kitchen have a dutch pot.
Every Jamaican kitchen has a dutch pot.
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Di rice an peas cook betta inna di dutchie.
The rice and peas cook better in the Dutch pot.
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Pass mi di dutchie fi di stew.
Pass me the Dutch pot for the stew.
Origin
From 'Dutch' (Dutch oven) + 'pot'; the heavy cast pot central to the kitchen ('dutchie'). See Coal stove, Coal pot.
How it’s used
The heavy cast cooking pot central to the Jamaican kitchen ('dutchie'). See Coal stove, Coal pot.