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Sweet! I would love a Dutch oven. I read you can make artisan bread in them and it's something I'd like to try someday.

Enjoy

That is awesome. I have wanted one of those for about a year now. What is the first thing your going to make in it?

That is a great deal. 

my best deal was Spirograph I got at a neighbour's garage sale on Olympic Drive in Montreal about a million years ago. Very loved toy!!!

Score!

Great score. Enjoy.

Wow, that's an amazing deal!! Enjoy it!

Happy cooking! I'll bet that the burgers will be great!

That was a steal of a deal! Good for you!!

I use a lot of cast iron cookwear. I only have two that have the enameled interior like your new pan, but I have lots of pieces of the good old fashioned cast iron in frying pans, a dutch oven, a cookie sheet/grill combo, and a set of grill pans that double as serving pans when you place the hot cast iron piece onto the wooden base. I love those grill cast iron things because it keeps whatever you've cooked super hot while you eat it. I started researching to see what other options there were for cleaning these things. I've always been kind of queasy about not using soap and the dishwasher to sanitize things.

What I found was this square metal chain thing that got very high reviews on Amazon. It claimed it is amazing on cast iron, enameled items like your new piece, and even glass pans that have gunk stuck on them. It was a bit pricy for a cleaning scrubber, $20 when I bought it - but under $17 right now. I took a chance and ordered it and I love it. I LOVE it. It gets baked on food off without much effort on my part, it conforms to whatever shape you are scrubbing, so it should slide right over the raised bumps in your pan like it does my grill plates. I love it.

And as a side bonus, it feels fun to play with, and my little great niece discovered it and has become attached to it. I even stuck it in my purse a couple of weeks ago when we were going out to lunch. I have found that by giving her something from my purse to play with, she is a lot more patient and better behaving in a restaurant. (read this - she stops screaming like a banshee and driving me nuts. That kid has some major lung power!) I think it was fun for her to have it outside my kitchen too. She sat through the waiting period before our food was served quietly playing with it and putting bread ties in between the chain sections and twisting them shut (I like to bring something she has never done before to hold her focus)

Anyway, you might want to give this a try to get that baked on black gunk out of the crevasses.

www.amazon.com/Knapp-Made-CM-Scrubber-trade/dp/B0087UYR1S/ref=pd_ys_sf_s_rp_a1_33_p?ie=UTF8&refRID=1BSD2ZNP03YQN3WBH2FP


ETA I also use the Lodge Grill Pan Scrapers that have grooves for scraping along the bumps.

You don't need a Dutch oven to make artisan bread, you can also use a stainless steel pot and lid as long as they're all stainless with no plastic handles. I've made the bread you're talking about and it's amazing