[teh_klev]

Back in late 2013 I picked up my Berndes 2 quart (4L) enamelled dutch oven for around GBP35 from Tesco. Tesco (UK) at the time had a whole range of their stuff for sale, and if you collected six tokens (you got a token for spending 50 quid on shopping) they knocked 50% off the retail price (GBP75). Regardless, I ended up with mine, discounted after the tokens, and it's been one of the best items of cookware I've ever purchased, I use it all the time. In fact having looked at their prices now I kinda feel a got a proper bargain. Sure it's not huge, but it's big enough to cook around 6-7 meals worth of stuff I can freeze. I'm not actually sure I'd know what to do with a 7 quart oven, and the weight and size of that thing must be quite something!

But anyway, another thing I came here to say was that one of the things I like about my enamelled pot is that I can easily see when a "fond" starts to build up, and then when I throw in some stock or wine, the fond releasing.

All in all they're fantastic general purpose cooking pots for less skilled cooks like myself. Finally, I worked as a pot washer at Gleneagles Hotel back in the 80's when I was a student, and saw some horrific and almost wilful destruction of expensive copper pots and pans by maniacal and psychopathic chefs, if only they were enamelled, my job might have been easier :).