On Fri 15 Aug 2008 11:36:28p, told us...

> On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 03:01:18 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> > wrote:
>
>>On Fri 15 Aug 2008 07:42:40p, MareCat told us...
>>
>>> "EZ Larry" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>>I had a dutch oven many years ago, but no longer, and my wife's
>>>> 35-year-old RevereWare is just a tad too small.
>>>>
>>>> My local Walmart has the Lodge Color 6-quart in blue, green, and red:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.walmart.com/search/search...h_constraint=0
&search_qu
>>>> ery=lodge+color&ic=48_0&Find.x=18&Find.y=2
>>>
>>> Another vote for Lodge here. I received the Lodge in blue as a gift
this
>>> past Christmas and love it.
>>>
>>> Mary
>>
>>I don't really need any more enamelled cast iron cookware. My Le Creuset
>>will certainly outlive me, but the prices on the Lodge cookware are
>>astronomically lower than Le Creuset and they look like terrific pieces.
>>If I were to buy more, it would probably be Lodge.
>
> Here's my opinion.... I wouldn't buy Lodge if it was handed to me on a
> silver platter because there are too many sycophants here for me to
> trust that brand. Logde wasn't a name I knew before I stumbled into
> this news group and it's not the only cast iron on the market... at
> least it wasn't when I was buying cast iron. Certain posters sound
> like little kid.... If it's not branded (and expensive), it's not any
> good. Pffft! Treat it right and it will outlast "you".

That might be true for their ordinary cast iron products, but the prices on
their enamelled cast iron pieces are very good in comparison to other
brands. Even currently manufactured Le Creuset products don't really
measure up to the quality they made decades ago, but their prices are
rediculously high/

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