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I'm glad I read this. It is super cold here and beans and cornbread sounds so good

 

I've seen these in new orleans

 

Poifect!

 

I did a 1/2 yardbird in the dutch oven the other night (gravy from the drippings), and made a batch of Cornbread to go with it. Went well with the cold weather we've been getting lately.

 

Burgers and fries tonight.

 

Excellent!

 

Not sure if the pic does it full justice.

 

Purdy! We have a round Staub in red.

 

How do y’all feel about enamel pans? I’ve never had much luck unless I basically hardly use them. I’m a fan of plain cast iron because no matter how bad I F it up unless it’s cracked, I can fix it in 5 minutes with some sand paper and crisco. My pans have seen some shit.

 

I treat them very different! The Staub and Le Creuset are slow cooking specialists, English/Irish stews with beer, French coq au vin and such I am not sure I would cook with wine in cast iron, dunno. But they are cast iron under the coating. Staub is some special tough flat black enamel inside.

 

This. They both have their applications. But agree, dishes with more finesse or long slow braises go in the enamel. Searing hot stove, wood fire, pizzas even, cast iron. I do use my cast iron daily and my enamels probably only twice a week. Sometimes I use a non-stick cancer skillet for eggs

 

I got a smaller cast iron for eggs mostly.

 

Same. My bare cast iron is GP, use it on the stovetop, in the oven, on the grill, in the campfire/bonfire, whatever. The enameled stuff only really gets used in the ovens, for slow-cooking or baking applications.

 

38, windy, & rainy last night, and I already had some leftover chicken and gravy from the yardbird I cooked this weekend. Those factors combined to leave just one choice for supper:

 

fair enough. I guess I don’t do enough in the oven for it to be justified. And even then I still just use my regular cast iron.

all my stuff is cheapo lodge. I like to have that sense of if I F it up it’s a modern nothing not something I paid a lot for. All my workhorses have been sanded down with my palm sander too, what a world of difference that makes!!!

 

Mine is Lodge as well, mostly, with a couple of random yardsale finds of unknown manufacture or vintage as well. My enameled dutch oven is Lodge, too. It's made in China (gasp!) so the snobs will look down on me for it, but it works fine and the price of $0 was just right.

 

One negative is that enameled stuff is expensive with a capital P. I scored the Staub for under $100 some years back. Same pot, I think regular price is $250 - I kid you not, some place was selling it for $600. Now I know it could be had for much much less, but still that is completely nuts!

 

Actually I lied. My camping cast iron is Walmart. I haven’t surfaced that one, I just use a shitload of crisco and put it in a fire. Works wonderfully.

yeah that too. We actually have a small enameled one I think Rachel ray brand. Got it in a yankee swap. It’s nice enough I like that it holds heat but we basically just use it as a normal sauce pan and the bottom is already scratched a bit. Never used metal utensils. Could just be the quality being a branded POS

actually now that I think of it. I think we gave that one away somewhere.

 

Not much I like about Rachel Ray, especially her cooking. But that's a different thread