The Camp Chef DO-5-Mini 3/4 Quart Dutch Oven

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Great product !

Retouner car vraiment trop petit mëme pour une personne, je dirais une décoration !!

the pot seems good enough, but on the box is a WARNING that it contains poisonous chemicals that cause cancer and which are harmful to pregnant women..... of course there is no such warning on the Amazon page or professional reviews of this product.

The Camp Chef 3/4 quart Dutch oven holds 22 oz up to the little (thermometer) notch in the rim. Functionally, it cooks about a maximum of 2 cups, if you're careful about not letting it boil over. It seems very well made. Compared to several Lodge products I own, the factory seasoning looked more ready to cook than Lodge. Although I'm not sure if that's true, because I re-seasoned it myself before I tried to cook with it.The Camp Chef fits nicely on a barbecue grill. On a campfire, the legs are little short to actually put on coals. It's small enough to fit in some toaster ovens, or beside a larger pot in a full size oven or on a grill. The wire handle really does let you pick up the hot pot off of a gas stove without a pot holder. There's a little notch in both the lid and rim that have to be lined up correctly if you want to insert a thermometer. It appears that NOT lining them up the notches should keep the ashes out if you using the pot on a campfire, but I haven't actually tried that yet. And the cast iron keeps your food hot while you're eating. Be sure to put the pot's feet on something burn-proof, they will get hot enough to melt plastic tabletops.It is a very small pot. I'm on a portion control diet, and specifically wanted to limit my meals to less than 2 cups, so being able to boil 2 cups works for me. For many people it's going to be way too small to cook a main dish in, and would be better suited for a side dish or dessert for two people. But it would work great for heating up beans on the barbecue, or cooking hot cereal in the morning. It should also work well for reheating small portions of leftovers, for times you don't have a microwave available.Lodge makes a 1 quart Dutch oven that looks better suited to actual campfire cooking, but is so tall as to be awkward on the table and it may not fit in toaster ovens or under the lid of some outdoor grills. The Camp Chef is better suited for the stove and indoor table use. Unlike the Lodge, the little legs on the Camp Chef drop right down between the wires of a barbecue grill or wire rack of an oven. Lodge also makes a very similar 1 pint pot, but it only holds about 2/3 as much as the Camp Chef. As a bonus, the Camp Chef only costs a little over half as much as the Lodge products (Note: You have to purchase a separate lid for their 1 pint serving pot).The one I received was a somewhat plain looking "100 Years of National Parks" edition, NOT the prettier Lewis & Clark model pictured on Amazon. But I purchased it to actually cook in, and it does that quite well, so I'm not complaining.

Look and Feel: I received two of these wonderful pots today and after using them twice, went back to Amazon.com and ordered two more. They're amazing!They're fully formed Dutch Ovens capable of being set on coals with coals on top. They work equally well in an indoor oven. They are sturdy, well made, well seasoned, and really are just regular Dutch ovens in a small size. They'll last for generations.Size: They fit about 3 cups of food. You can fit a regular sized can of ready to eat soup in one, but not a can of condensed soup that has another can worth of water added to it.If you like to bake bread in them, the "Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day" recipe worked great for us today. I used about 1/2 of a pound in each pot, or about a adult fist sized portion. It is a wetter than usual dough and when baked in a Dutch oven with the lid on, will become beautifully browned with a crispy top and delicious inside. One pot makes about the equivelent of two nice sized bread rolls.Uses: Anything you can cook in an oven or on the stove top, should probably work in one of these. The reason I ordered 2 more, though there are only 2 in my family right now, is because I can cook dinner in one and a nice bread or fruit pie or other side dish or desert in the other. By cooking them together, I save electricity, coals, gas, or whatever cooking fuel I'm using. Today I had to fire up the toaster oven twice and had to wait for the pots to cool before cooking the bread. By Saturday I'll have four pots in my large toaster oven, all working together to create a wonderful meal for two.Though I used them inside in a toaster oven today, they'll work outside in a fire or on a grill, too. They'll work inside a regular oven, and probably even on a stove top if you have gas or the old electric burners. I'm not sure I'll use them that way, though. You can put coals under them and on top.Benefits: Amazingly baked foods with browned, carmelized tops that stay hot throughout the meal no matter how cool the 120 year old house is. They'll be great around the campfire. I like them better than cooking in one big pot because then you have to dish the food out into individual bowls and it won't stay warm as long. If you camp in cooler weather, you'll really see a benefit with having individual cast iron cooking vessels that double as bowls.Best of all, cooking in and eating from these little pots was just plain fun!