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DH Destroyed My Le Creuset Dutch Oven
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Anonymous
Seriously. I have accidentally left mine on overnight and come back the next morning to soup ash in the bottom of the pan. They are impossible to ruin. It sounds like you need to take to Le Creuset. |
Anonymous
It cracks the enamel. Preheating it in the oven is safer because the heat is more evenly distributed throughout the enamel than when heating it empty on the stove top. |
Anonymous
Wut!? Petty? You are what is wrong with people today. Please tell me the rest of you are raising kids to understand that they correct their mistakes. You don't just break something and say "Whoops! My bad!" and walk away. |
Anonymous
Yes, you do with a spouse. He said he was sorry. You are best placed to fix the problem. Be a grown up, call Le Creuset and get the new Dutch oven that you want. |
Anonymous
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Yes, I understand, OP. My husband often makes me feel as if the kids and I are not as important as himself. He has ADHD/ASD, and so many things fall through the cracks when he's "responsible" for them. It's not pleasant living this way, but for the moment I'm stuck. For this situation, though, I would have gone out and bought a new one, or fixed it myself, and "taken revenge" another way. My Le Creuset have all taken a ton of abuse over the years. I'm not envisioning the damage on yours, but if it's blackened, I would get out the steel wool and scrub. I know it can damage the enamel, but I've done that many times on mine and they're still perfectly usable. Please don't destroy memorabilia! That will only escalate the problem. Find something less ugly. |
Anonymous
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She’s clearly not just upset about the pot, she’s upset that her husband is treating her feelings about it so lightly and is making no real effort to make up for his mistake.
When you inadvertently hurt someone, you really got to match the energy of the person you’ve hurt. What matters is not how important you think the thing is, but how important they think it is. Because you’re supposed to care when you hurt somebody, and you’re supposed to do what you can to make it better. A lot of people either minimize in order to reduce the discomfort their own guilt, or are unable to admit the magnitude of somebody else’s hurt, because doing so would threaten their own sense of being a good person. |
Anonymous
https://www.lecreuset.com/blog/how-to-make-no...%20delicious%20loaf. Most no knead bread recipes call for preheating the Dutch oven while the oven heats up. Not only do we not recommend heating an empty Dutch oven, but it can be challenging to wrangle the wet dough carefully into an extremely hot pot. But we found that preheating is really not necessary to achieve a delicious loaf. The bonus is that you can use the pot itself as a container for the second rise, and it can go directly from the counter to the hot oven when ready to bake. Another technique from America’s Test Kitchen is to place the Dutch oven in a cold oven during the second rise, and preheat both the oven and the pot at the same time. |
Anonymous
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I would say, "Hey, any update on when my new Le Creuset will arrive? It's been a while."
Hopefully he will either say, "Oh no, I totally forgot, I'm so sorry" or he'll just run off and submit the claim that second. Worse case scenario, he says he'll do it but forgets again. In that case, I would have a serious conversation about him not responding to things that are really important to you, and how it makes you feel. |
Anonymous
Oh I get it. I love my Le Creuset. |
Anonymous
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My guess for why Le Creuset doesn't want you heating an empty pan is related to this:
Do not plunge a hot pan into cold water. While Le Creuset’s enamel is designed to be the most durable on the market, thermal shock may still occur, resulting in cracking or loss of enamel. If your pan is hot then you add cold water/cold food, the enamel might crack. |
Anonymous
| How did OP's DH damage the pot? Did the enamel actually crack? Or did nothing happen? |
Anonymous
Yeah, that's what I do. I preheat the oven and the dutch oven at the same time. But is it actually ruined if you cooked it for a bit? |
Anonymous
Right, she didn't say the enamel was cracked. If it's just discolored, that can be remedied. |
Anonymous
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Yes, I'd be hurt that nothing was done to remediate the situation.
But don't be passive aggressive about this, or hint at things. Tell him directly that you attached a lot of sentiment to that pot, you used it a lot, and although you know what he did was an accident, and you appreciate the apology, it hurts your feelings that he's done nothing to replace the pot, either by buying a new one or by contacting Le Crueset for a new one. And then let that sit. If he tries to defend himself, let it sit there, and let him know this isn't you yelling about him or trying to shame him, you just want to know if he is going to make amends. Again, if he tried to deflect or defend himself, you need to stay calm and bring it back to, "OK, I get that this was a mistake. I understand that, we've all made mistakes. It's imporatan to me that you make good. Are you going to fix the situation?" |
Anonymous
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My parents' biggest fight ever was over a pressure cooker. Of course it wasn't actually over a pressure cooker.
I don't think this is about the Dutch oven, OP. |