{"id":198,"date":"2010-02-27T19:50:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T19:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/02\/so-i-cracked-my-enameled-cast-iron.html"},"modified":"2010-02-27T19:50:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T19:50:07","slug":"so-i-cracked-my-enameled-cast-iron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/02\/so-i-cracked-my-enameled-cast-iron.html","title":{"rendered":"So I cracked my enameled cast iron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can hardly express what a complete idiot I feel like right now. Not knowing any better, I put my new Lodge enameled cast iron Dutch oven, a Christmas gift to us, on the burner to dry after washing before storing, as I do regular cast iron. Little did I know at the time that you should NEVER do this. Worse, I forgot about it when I got busy dealing with feeding the children dinner, and walked back into the kitchen after the poor Dutch oven had been on top of a roaring burner for eight to 10 minutes. What you see here in the extreme close up of the pot&#8217;s surface is the result.<br \/>\nLet me ask ye who have experience cooking with enameled cast iron: have I killed my Dutch oven? The care and cleaning sites &#8212; the ones that say never to put enameled cast iron on the burner with nothing in the pot &#8212; <span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"crackpot.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/199\/import\/crackpot.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/span>say when the surface is cracked, the pot is done for, because liquid gets underneath the enamel and onto the iron surface underneath. I ran my fingers over the surface of the cooled enamel, and it feels completely smooth. Does that mean anything?<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s a hundred-dollar Dutch oven. It&#8217;s been a great piece of cookware, too. I&#8217;m so sick to the stomach over my carelessness that I can&#8217;t even think of eating dinner. Idiot, idiot, idiot. Go ahead, make <i>crackpot<\/i> jokes. I deserve them. On the other hand, maybe this is Julie&#8217;s fault for leaving town with me in charge. Argh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can hardly express what a complete idiot I feel like right now. Not knowing any better, I put my new Lodge enameled cast iron Dutch oven, a Christmas gift to us, on the burner to dry after washing before storing, as I do regular cast iron. 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