I have a growing collection of cast iron cookware and am always on the lookout for more. I found my first dutch oven at a yard sale, and have been buying more as I can. I can get Lodge products at Walmart and Target, or even Cracker Barrel, while Big Lots and Ollie's occasionally have some of the lesser known brands. Even some of the celebrity cookery lines have added a few iron pieces. Some of the dutch ovens are enamel coated, but I prefer the raw iron and wish I could find some of the flat lid ovens. My wife's chili works extremely well in them. But my biggest problem right now is finding the self-basting lids. Most of the stores have switched to glass lids. I do have a marginal level of hemochromatosis, but the VA doctor I see regularly says that dietary iron has a very limited effect on it. He believes it is genetic, so I made sure to have my children get tested for it. By the way, he claims that the most effective treatment he can prescribe is to regularly donate blood.
I have a growing collection of cast iron cookware and am always on the lookout for more. I found my first dutch oven at a yard sale, and have been buying more as I can. I can get Lodge products at Walmart and Target, or even Cracker Barrel, while Big Lots and Ollie's occasionally have some of the lesser known brands. Even some of the celebrity cookery lines have added a few iron pieces. Some of the dutch ovens are enamel coated, but I prefer the raw iron and wish I could find some of the flat lid ovens. My wife's chili works extremely well in them. But my biggest problem right now is finding the self-basting lids. Most of the stores have switched to glass lids. I do have a marginal level of hemochromatosis, but the VA doctor I see regularly says that dietary iron has a very limited effect on it. He believes it is genetic, so I made sure to have my children get tested for it. By the way, he claims that the most effective treatment he can prescribe is to regularly donate blood.