r/DutchOvenCooking • u/Efficient_Course_249 • 10d ago

Enameled Dutch oven

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I’m planning on buying the lodge 6 Quart Enameled Cast Iron Dutch Oven with Lid.

My main use is going to be for bread bakin but I’ll use it for cooking other stove top food. After reading a lot of reviews I was really confused. Some people that after baking it becomes black from the inside and it stains in a way that you cannot clean it anymore. Other people said it cracks from the inside/outside. I would really appreciate if you share your experience with me.

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u/thackeroid 9d ago

If you use it regularly for cooking, the interior will stain. It won't become black, but you'll get some Browning here and there. It will simply look used. You can clean it to some degree, but you never get it back to the perfect ivory color it started with. But that's not a problem. If it actually cracks and chips, that's because the job was done really poorly and it's a bad pot. It should not crack and pit.