Irons Reviews

I was under the impression this was a Lodge LOGIC item as noted on the title. After I received the oven I compared item numbers and while disappointed, I shall keep and season myself. The Lodge Logic 9quart oven is available (for some reason AMAZON has this as an 8quart oven) item L12DO2. My notion is to perfect fried chicken this spring using the oven with an out-door propane burner (turkey fryer, anyone?) I'm hoping to pick-up someone's discarded fryer at a tag sale soon. I've got several Le Creuset french ovens, and several lodge skillets, grill pan, cornstick cornbread muffin pans, etc. but this is my first cast iron dutch oven. I also ordered the L12SK3 (pre-seasoned 13" skillet which the lid for the oven fits. These are HUGE cookware items. Know (visualize) these sizes before you order.

Like all Lodge products this one is wonderful... however, I do believe you are in error in most of your catalog photos. I believe Lodge Dutch Ovens with odd number of quarts are legless and those with even number of quarts are CAMP Dutch ovens with legs... and your photos do not reflect this. This makes a great deal of difference to those doing the buying. Also you seem to have the 10 inch (note 10 on lid in pics) pictured in most of your Camp Dutch Oven pictures... really do wish you had a Lodge Product number and all the correct sizes and styles pictured correctly... I am sitting in South Carolina, hoping you got a lot of the photos mixed up or the person putting up the site didn't know exactly what to do... putting up a site is always hard when you do not work with the material every day... again my thanks for checking

steve

We do living history events and camp. We origionally bought this for events & places we couldn't make a ground fire, or fires had to be in a container. Now we use it at all our camping & living history sites. It looks close enough to origional braziers we have never had a problem at events. We use a concrete stepping stone under it to protect the grass. It holds my Dutch oven & bean pot which both have legs, and will hold a skillet & my husband's large coffeepot at the same time. After 6 hard years it still looks & acts good. Wiping it down with corn or olive oil when warm keeps it that way. If we get another grill it will probably be the Logic pre seasoned, but it will definitely be the Lodge Sportsmans.

Great product! Bought after break-up with boyfriend (he-gas, me-charcoal -- not why we split).

Cast iron, simple, fuel-efficient. Draft door for heat-control. Upper flip-door for adding / managing coals. 2 cooking levels (flip footed-grill). All you really need. Used every other day in bitter N.E. winter. Small, perfect w/ practice. Some tips (still learning / welcoming ideas):

1. Grill on outdoor wood surface (if desired) by elevating feet w/ bricks / flat stones
2. Use charcoal chimney starter
3. Level grill prevents food rolling on un-edged surface. Otherwise, watch closely.
4. Don't stress cast iron (your investment) by spraying water. Move food to side. Let flare-ups die down.
5. W/ grill's ability to hold heat, plan cooking and next day's meals: Start with long-cook foods, move to quick-cook foods, EAT, and while watching TV, roast potatoes in coals and in cast-iron pot or pan on the grill cook beans, roasted corn and onions, etc (you decide). Killer.
6. Lodge's #404 Sportsman's Cooker completes grill's potential: cooker bottom perfect fit as grill lid for smoking or indirect grilling, cooker and lid obviously cook fish and stock beautifully, and flipped lid is pancake / egg / sausage, etc. -heaven. Good additional investment.
7. When cooking's finished, wait till grill's warm and pores are open, brush down thoroughly and use clean, plain paint-brush (natural bristle) or foam brush to brush grill surface (both sides), top rims, and outside with oil -- peanut oil has an excellent, high smoke point.
8. Grill can be left outdoors with oval galvanized bucket as lid, or plastic tarp.

Definitely email me with further tips.

I love to grill. I used to have a hibachi grill that I used all the time when was an apartment dweller, but it eventually broke. Until now, I never found a replacement that didn't look fragile. So when I saw this grill on sale, I snatched it up. In retrospect, I'm glad I did.

This grill is made of heavy cast iron (emphasis on heavy). The base of the grill is painted with heat resistant black paint, while the removable grills (where the charcoal and food sit) are untreated cast iron. They will have to be seasoned or they will rust if exposed to rain or humidity. If it does rust, just take a wire brush and scrub the rust off, and slather it up with shortening and cook something (or throw it into the oven at 350 degrees for an hour). A few iterations of this and the grill will almost be non-stick.

This is a hassle in the beginning, but if you take care of it, this grill will outlast you and probably your children. After I figured out it had to be seasoned, I haven't had any trouble with rust.

Also, the top grill has legs that rest on the base. You can flip this over, effectively adjusting the grill height down two inches towards the coals.

To give you an idea on the size, I was able to cook about 2.5 lbs of hamburger meat shaped into seven largish patties at the same time.

Although I was worried about the whole thing heating up, the base didn't heat up enough to do any damage to the wooden picnic table. In fact, I could touch the base without burning myself. However, if you are going to a tailgate party with this grill, I would bring along a piece of sheet rock or plywood to set it up on, as extra insurance.