This Baker is beautiful and perfect for sourdough! It is versatile and big enough to bake a whole chicken as well.

Recently started making sourdough bread, tried a Dutch oven, and had to decide between wearing oven gloves and risking dropping the dough ball, or getting burns on my knuckles. This solves the problem neatly, I preheat the bottom tray, and it is easy to transfer the parchment paper with the dough on it to the hot pan, slash it, pop the cover on and close the oven. Bread gets a nice crust which browns beautifully after the cover comes off during the last half of the baking time. Coated and wipes clean easily. Makes much nicer bread than just baking on a tray in the oven, and no messing with a water tray. I use a mister to spritz the dough ball just before the cover goes on. Would buy again, and I bought one as a gift for my daughter who bakes.

I have never baked bread in my life but decided to give it a shot. There is a viral cheese bread recipe that I wanted to try and since this was on sale, I went ahead and purchased it. My husband kept asking me over and over again, you didn't use a package for this? No, no I did not. I made it from scratch with my own two hands! I never have to worry about the shape of the bread I'm making or how it's going to turn out with this fabulous Dutch oven. I also purchased the seven quart Dutch oven, from the same series also in cranberry and gold, and made him some cioppino (seafood soup) to go with the crispy garlic cheese bread. HE WENT CRAZY!! I have made so many wonderful dishes (including the fabulous potato leek soup pictured below) thanks to these two beautiful Dutch ovens. They are gorgeous, elegant, easy to use and clean up very well. I can't wait to make more recipes!!

I have several enameled cast iron made by Tramotina and are pleased with how well this one is made and packaged. That said this "bread Oven" has, IMO, one major issue; it is small. The maximum diameter of the inside bottom is 8" but bread expands when baking so in reality a 6" bole or battard loaf is about max. I bake both at 8" because of the basket sizes I have and neither fits with the lid on through the bake. I will try again making a smaller bole by hand before I decide whether or not to return it.

Absolutely thrilled with this bread oven. Extremely well made, heavy duty and effective! Made my first loaf of rustic bread and was very pleased with results. I made a half recipe smaller loaf as a test and I will definitely be making full loaves going forward. Please note - the instructions say not to use dry - I lightly coated inside of bottom only with olive oil - did not impact my bread at all. And, the price cannot be beat!

I am new to bread baking. Am an accomplished cook and baker, but for some reason have not baked a lot of bread. I like Artisan bread, so this cast iron bread cloche really appealed to me. It arrived quickly and I baked my first loaf of bread in it. I made a parchment liner for it, to keep it from staining as well. The bread was great with a nice crust and very delicious. I look forward to baking more loaves of delicious bread. The oven itself is very well made and is attractive if you plan on having it out or on display. This price compared to a similar Le Creuset oven is unrealy at about 1/5 the price. I own a lot of Le Creuset that I bought years ago. This is a great piece of cookware at a much more affordable price point. I am sure I will enjoy it for many years to come.

First try at using a Enamel Cast Iron Bread Oven - 'tight-sealing lid helps trap steam, simulating the conditions of professional bread ovens'. Simple white bread - the result is just what I was hoping for. Preheated the cloche in the oven while the shaped loaf was rising. Removed from oven to load the dough. Then cooked 25 minutes, removed lid to brown for 10 minutes.

This was given as a gift to my daughter to use for baking sourdough bread.

Beautiful and functional this bread oven produces a lovely loaf of bread.

The first time I used this in the oven it became discolored.