Lodge 7.38 litre / 7.8 quart Cast Iron/Porcelain Enamel Dutch Oven/Casserole Dish, Red

Great value and top quality

Excellent quality without a wallet melting price. Good size handles you can get your fingers around. The lid knob is easy to use with oven gloves and ridges to stop your stirring spoon sliding off.

Gorgeous colour, cooks quicker than others I've used so saves on energy, easy to clean with no staining from things like tomato or curry paste. So glad I spent that bit extra to get this top quality cookware

Really high quality cast iron pot. We use this for baking sourdough bread in the oven at 230 degrees Celsius, and it is definitely up to the job.... Retains the heat well, does great bread, and very easy to clean....

Very pleased with this Dutch oven. Beautiful quality. Arrived within a week to UK. Now our sourdough bread comes out perfectly cooked. This is just so useful. We’ll be using it for stews, etc as well. Large size but happy to display this on top of my stove. Highly recommended and worth every penny

Great pot, works as you'd expect.

This arrived after 10 days from the US. There was full tracking provided and strangely for such a heavy item it was delivered by Royal Mail. It was packed really very well and arrived in first class condition, just a little dusty but a quick soapy wash and it's good to go.

Love this, bakes bread & great for casseroles etc keeping everything lovely & moist.

すごくよいです。見た目や色もすてきです。お手入れも楽。 大きいので4～5人ぶん楽勝です。

Finally decided to get a Lodge to bake my sourdough bread. It’s great but very heavy as it’s a 6qt. Love the colour. Handles are just right size.

This is a good quality cast iron Dutch oven. Easy to clean, however, it's very heavy so a bit hard to handle. Overall, I'm super pleased and would buy it again.

I couldn’t be happier with this Dutch oven from Lodge. The quality is outstanding — it feels solid and durable, and you can tell it’s built to last. The Sandalwood color is beautiful and looks great both on the stove and on the table. It heats evenly and retains heat incredibly well, which makes it perfect for bread baking, soups, stews, braising, and slow cooking. I’ve made homemade sourdough in it and the crust came out amazing thanks to the moisture-sealing lid. Everything cooks consistently without hot spots. The enamel interior is easy to clean and doesn’t require seasoning like traditional cast iron, which is a big plus. The dual handles make it easy to move (with oven mitts, of course), and the lid fits snugly to lock in flavor and moisture. For the price, this Dutch oven delivers exceptional performance and versatility. Highly recommend for anyone who loves cooking or wants to upgrade their kitchen essentials!

I have a cheap stove, so it's not easily possible to stew things at lower temperature with regular pots. The heat dissipates too quickly, so it just stops simmering. Not with this pot: It has amazing heat retention, so it has become indispensable since I bought it. It is extremely heavy though, which is to be expected by such a large mass of cast iron. Maybe it can double as a makeshift bomb shelter in a pinch. I guess any dutch oven has to measure up to Le Creuset, which I don't personally have any experience with. However, I can see that the Le Creuset costs at least twice as much on Amazon. I doubt that it can be twice as good because this pot is damn near perfect. At 6 liters, it is a bit too big for two people, but that's hardly Lodge's fault. Only disadvantage to me is that the lid edges are kind of rough so they feel like unglazed terra cotta. That means that putting the lid on, taking it off, or moving it makes a scraping sound which I personally hate more than nails on a chalkboard. Fortunately, the lid is very heavy as well so it's not like you move it around too much. I'm kind of blindly rating its taste though. I have not tried eating it because I find cast iron too hard to chew, but I have to assume it's delicious.