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A cast-iron tank that turns tough cuts and stubborn dough into something worth fighting over.
means A heavy, lidded cooking pot — traditionally cast iron — that holds steady, even heat, making it ideal for braising, stewing, roasting, and baking.
from From English, where "Dutch" was slapped onto all manner of things in the 17th and 18th centuries — sometimes admiring, often a dig at Dutch trade rivals. The cooking sense likely nods to a Dutch method of casting iron in sand molds, a technique an Englishman is said to have studied and patented in the early 1700s; the name stuck even as the pots became thoroughly anglicized. (The other, cruder meaning — the one involving a blanket — is a much later joke, riffing on the same "trapped heat" idea.)
- heirloom status
- Good ones outlive their owners and get inherited
- misnamed
- Perfected by the English, credited to the Dutch
- weight class
- Often heavier than a bowling ball
- frontier currency
- Listed by name in colonial wills
- do everything
- Sears, braises, bakes bread, fries chicken
staub cocotte dutch oven — french brand acquired by zwilling in 2008, preferred by professional chefs and food writers