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Title: High function, great looking
Review: My husband rushed to get this for me for Christmas 2006 after we read Mark Bittman's now legendary (among home bakers) article on baking bread in the 8 November 2006 issue of the NY Times. It calls for heating an empty cast iron or enamelware Dutch oven at high heat before tossing in the dough. We had an old cast iron Dutch oven which we had been avoiding because of clean-up difficulties, found the bread worked fine in it and decided we'd have occasions to make more than one loaf at a time and needed something else. This does a great job and it cleans up beautifully in soap and water week after week with no worries of rust. It distributes heat well. Also works great atop the stove. It is heavy as to be expected and you need thick potholders to grab the handles when it has been in a 450 degree oven.
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