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I usually go to Denmark when I cook with a Dutch oven.
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I cook with Dutch Ovens all the time on my wagon trains. The last thing the settlers would give up is there Oven. I have cooked roasts with all the fixins and cobbler. You can stack them to utilize the coals on top of one for the bottom of the other.
Easy to cook with and great in the wind.
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A good Dutch Oven is required around my house. Nothing better than than a stovetop roast cooked in it. Way too many other uses both on the stove and in the oven.
When my niece got married she picked out some super expensive clad aluminum cookware for her bridal registry. I instead gave her one of my older and best seasoned Dutch Ovens. She kindof turned her nose up at it at the time. But about 5 years latter, she hugged my neck and told me that was the best and most useful pot she had. Experience counts! Did you include instructions on maintaining the season?
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I have collected Griswold for years started with a few pieces frome my grandparents and now have more then anyone needs. I have a dutch that is double stamped (Griswold/Wagner) not so common. I use mine for everything but boiling water. I've got one of those too. Didn't know they were rare.
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I usually go to Denmark when I cook with a Dutch oven and I also get some double dutch rudder while I'm there. It's all part of the menu.  Fixed it for you. 
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A good Dutch Oven is required around my house. Nothing better than than a stovetop roast cooked in it. Way too many other uses both on the stove and in the oven.
When my niece got married she picked out some super expensive clad aluminum cookware for her bridal registry. I instead gave her one of my older and best seasoned Dutch Ovens. She kindof turned her nose up at it at the time. But about 5 years latter, she hugged my neck and told me that was the best and most useful pot she had. Experience counts! Did you include instructions on maintaining the season? Yep! I told her she should never use soap. Just scrape it out good with a SS Choreboy, rinse and cook/dry on the stove. Finish off with a dab of lard on a papertowel. I don't think she believed me though.
My biggest fear is when I die my wife will sell my guns for what I told her they cost....
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fastest and easiest way to ruin a good DO is to wash with soap. I don't know how many times I had to beat that concept into the wife's head. And I've been using olive oil on mine as we don't usually have lard in the house. I do have a jar of rendered bear fat that was given to me to season my boot leather... hummm.
They say everything happens for a reason.
For me that reason is usually because I've made some bad decisions that I need to pay for.
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fastest and easiest way to ruin a good DO is to wash with soap. I don't know how many times I had to beat that concept into the wife's head. And I've been using olive oil on mine as we don't usually have lard in the house. I do have a jar of rendered bear fat that was given to me to season my boot leather... hummm. We usually buy a small box of lard around Thanksgiving. Absolutly nothing better for making flaky pie crusts with during the holiday season. January 1st its back to Crisco for cooking and I use the lard on the cast iron or just occasionally (when noone is watching) to grease the skillet for cooking cornbread cause it makes the bottom crust so wonderfully crispy!
My biggest fear is when I die my wife will sell my guns for what I told her they cost....
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ummmm lard!
Only thing better ?
Grandma's can of bacon fat
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