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Pot roast in the Dutch oven
« on: January 30, 2025, 07:42:47 PM »
My wife got a Lodge enameled cast iron Dutch oven for Christmas and I’ve been eager to try it out. Finally got the chance today.

I don’t really have any special recipe, and there are a ton if you google them, but I can tell you doing a pot roast in the Dutch oven blows away one in the crock pot. Some recipes have you deglaze with red wine but I didn’t do that today.

I browned/seared the roast on each side for five minutes in the Dutch oven in the stove top, filled it halfway up the roast with beef broth, and put seasonings and four good size pats of butter on top. In the oven at 350 for an hour and a half, pull it out, add vegetables and potatoes of choice under the roast and flipped it, more liquid to bring the level halfway up the roast again, more pats of butter on top, then back in the oven for another hour and a half.

Turned out perfect. Absolutely fall apart and tender beyond belief. It’s finally a pot roast that lives up to what you want to think a pot roast should be.
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Re: Pot roast in the Dutch oven
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2025, 04:25:43 AM »
That’s how my wife does hers. She has a Tramontina enameled Dutch oven.
Lodge still makes some good cast. It’s essential that the lid seals well.
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Re: Pot roast in the Dutch oven
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2025, 04:49:44 AM »
That’s how my wife does hers. She has a Tramontina enameled Dutch oven.
Lodge still makes some good cast. It’s essential that the lid seals well.

If I have a pot that may be iffy on the seal I will use a piece of foil to cover the pot and then put the lid on. It works pretty well.

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Re: Pot roast in the Dutch oven
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2025, 06:50:05 AM »
It's all in the sear.

If you sear well and deeply in whatever pan you want, then transfer it to the crock pot, you'll get much the same result as if you were to do it all in the dutch oven.

The dutch oven tends to be a bit faster, though, because you can set the oven to a higher temperature. And you only have one pot, as opposed to the crock pot, the searing pan, and possibly others.

Last weekend I made beef stew in my Amazon Basics 7.3 quart dutch oven. I didn't sear the beef in the dutch oven because I had so much of it (2.5 pounds). That's the one thing I don't really like about the AB dutch oven is that the bottom is a bit narrow. It tapers in too much and that limits browning real estate for something like cubed beef.

So, I used my big chicken fryer pan. 11" with straight sides. TONS of real estate.

Browned the hell out of the beef, then sweated the onion and celery (I chop my onion pretty fine for beef stew, I'm not a big fan of large chunks of onion in it, same with the celery), then deglazed with red wine, and into the dutch oven.

Into the oven for an 90 minutes on 325 to get the meat good and tender (or at least started) then in with all of the vegetables and back into the oven for another 90, then in with a bag of frozen peas and a roux and cook for another 20 to 30.

Came out perfect.


A couple of weeks ago a friend sent me a text that he and his wife were making a Mississippi pot roast, but with a pork loin instead of a chuck. Apparently that's a thing, and he said that it came out fantastic.

So I want to give that a try this year.

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Re: Pot roast in the Dutch oven
« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2025, 12:51:37 AM »
Both sound good !
With only one here, I don't try to cook that much any more.
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Re: Pot roast in the Dutch oven
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2025, 06:39:31 AM »
Only one here, as well, but I concentrate on putting together larger dishes on Saturday or Sunday so that I have a nice dinner and lunches for most of the rest of the following week.

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Re: Pot roast in the Dutch oven
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2025, 02:00:16 PM »
Only one here, as well, but I concentrate on putting together larger dishes on Saturday or Sunday so that I have a nice dinner and lunches for most of the rest of the following week.

"Only one"?  Doesn't Seren count??  =D
BTW, how's she doing?
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Re: Pot roast in the Dutch oven
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2025, 09:51:53 AM »
Seren doesn't figure into dinner prep. She has her own food stream. She samples mine, but that's about it.

And she's doing well, thanks.
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