Do you want a Dutch oven from Garden & Gun?

Generally speaking, the Cod hearts Garden & Gun. Pretty to look at, good to read, and one of the grasshoppers is holding down a gig there. And with Pimento Cheese Awareness Month on the horizon, G&G is one of the only major media outlets that takes pimento cheese seriously. And they did a nice thing on the Cod's fugumminy brother. And a good deal of the stuff in the new G&G store* the Cod would be happy to have, if a little on the pricy side. A mighty handsome apron, for instance. 

But there's a but. One of the other things is a Le Creuset Dutch oven in an exclusive color. (Is it me, or does it seem like just about everyone from Sur La Table to Jeff Gordon has an exclusive color of Le Creuset?) For G&G, in keeping with their matte and zooted out aesthetic, their exclusive color is gunmetal gray. It looks nice, and exactly the kind of thing that someone who buys ten thousand dollar custom shotguns would like. It costs $300, which is pretty much the same thing as giggling and holding down the covers in my book.  However, the gunmetal color also means that it looks like a regular cast iron dutch oven, the which the good folks at Lodge will let you have for roughly one sixth the cost. Sure, the Le Creuset has the fancy knob, but if you can get along without, you could get yourself a whole leg of proscuitto from Caw Caw Creek, with money left over for a decent bottle of rye. 

*I wish G&G every success, but the new G&G store suggests that the future of magazines might not be selling magazines but rather to provide a lifestyle branding umbrella.

Comments

[TSWSarah]

After all these years, what has always held me back from getting a Le Creuset pot is that supposedly you cannot fry in them as the hot oil will crack the enamel. (Although seeing their small pot in cobalt blue on clearance at W&S the other week certainly gave me pause.)

[Fesser]

They are pretty, but finnicky.

[Marco]

Marshall's Homegoods has Le Creuset and Cuisinart cast iron Dutch ovens for a lot less. Sometimes imperfect (minor shit), but who cares?