STAUB Cast Iron Essential French Oven, 5-quart, White

Best cookware Non toxic quality cookware Oven, stove top to refrigerator It’s beautiful bring straight to the table

I do all of the cooking in the household. Been wanting a Dutch Oven for some time. It’s awesome and fits the color scheme of my kitchen!

You can’t go wrong with Staub! This is a beautiful piece that will last a lifetime. Delivery was quick and it came packaged well. I can’t wait to make my first pot of soup in it!

5 stars

I love the color ( mauve/lilac) and that it is lighter than many Dutch ovens, but my primary reason for buying this pot was so I could make sour dough bread. Per the Staub's instruction, the pot should never be heated empty. I've been making sour dough bread for about 6 months now and every recipe and video I watched says to pre-heat the pot empty. I've been borrowing one and have been loving the homemade bread. Since there is nothing in this sales description, I find this at minimum a deep flaw in the product's listing (hopefully not a willful omission?). Why does Staub even make a dutch oven that can't be used for making bread? Seems like a design flaw for such a major brand and with higher price tag. I only saw listing information for max oven temp and since that met my needs, I assumed it was like every other dutch oven and could be pre-heated. I wish I would have read the instructions, before cooking down a batch of garden tomatoes into tomato sauce. It worked fine for that.