Er … at first glance, I’m afraid I mis-read that as
One is very large and should be ideal for cooking lots of people
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Still feverish?
(I hope not.)
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In a stunning coincidence, I’ve just discovered three chips have mysteriously appeared on the bottom of my beloved Le Creuset Dutch oven, what a disaster! I’m looking on their web site and apparently there is a lifetime guarantee. Hope it works. Otherwise I hardly dare tell the friend who sold it to me almost unused at a very good price that I have somehow ruined it in just a few weeks. I don’t even know how it happened.
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Someone in a student household I lived in once managed to destroy the enamel lining of a Le Creuset casserole dish: it came off in great chips all across the bottom. He didn’t know how that happened, either.
I suspect there may be a failure mode we don’t know about.
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I am reading that I should not use it any more as more chips could come off into the food. 
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Absolutely you shouldn’t. They are like ground glass, not good for people’s stomachs.
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No, it’s going to have to sit on the shelf looking beautiful.
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When you think about it, enamel is a sort of glass really. Vitreous, anyway. Says someone who was taught enamelling at one point, as part of the silversmithing. Very high temperatures required.
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As I understand it, it’s basically powdered glass melted and frozen into place.
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There is a little bit of my mind that insists that the plural of email should be émaux…
Derived from the Frankish ‘smalt’, which is a very satisfying little word (yes, I did just look that up).
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But that’s Heidi’s job!
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I am so lucky in the friend who bought my 3 non le crueset casserole dishes
They are a joy to cook in and tonight one will be making a burger onion and mushroom casserole as it’s not BBQ weather
Horizontal rain tends to defeat my best BBQ efforts - steamed sausages are not to everyone’s taste!
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Late Aged Aunt had one which was crazed to buggery inside. It didn’t survive the journey from Kent to Chesterfield, as 1 chip came out & the rest followed.
Carinthia.xx
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Another glass will be raised this evening to Solly Sid, who died yesterday afternoon. 
It has been a bit of a week, hasn’t it?
Carinthia.xx
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It has indeed, Darling.
Gxx
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I would think it must be about that, though without hoiking it out of a bottom cupboard I can’t be sure…
I’ve realised I must have had it for over 40 years. This makes me feel very old.
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An excellent idea.
Possibly an even better idea.
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Most of my saucepans are over 40 years old too
Gulp…
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Roast leg of insurance salesman ;- )
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It would probably have to be roast leg of a JW for us, since all cold calling is illegal here (phone and in person) with the sole exception of religious organisations.
That would do very nicely though.
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