Review of Lodge L2SP3 Cast Iron Serving Pot, Black, 2-Quart

Customer Ratings:
List Price: $39.50
Sale Price: $26.00
Today's Bonus: 34% Off

This would be a great pot to subsitute for a dutch oven for a single person or couple because of it's smaller size. We are a family of 4 and it is the perfect size for side dishes like baked beans also. When you don't need the bigger 5 quart dutch oven, this pan gets the job done. As always, LOVE the pre-seansoning!

Click Here For Most Helpful Customer Reviews >>

Despite being named a "serving pot", this is a functional Dutch oven.

Introductory note: I don't cook. I famously don't cook. I destroy kitchen equipment. I'm known for trying to make ramen and setting the water on fire. I was once boiling water for pasta when the bottom of the pan made a loud explodey noise and developed a new hole. Several friends won't allow me in or near their kitchens now.

I recently bought a slew of Lodge Logic stuff, after resigning myself to the fact that the price tag on my nice cookware, coupled with the knowledge that I explode or incinerate anything cooking-related that I touch, is going to forever intimidate me into leaving them unused in the cupboard. Cast iron, I thought, should be able to survive even me.

I did season my "pre-seasoned" pots, by warming them on the stovetop, wiping them down with Crisco, and stacking them in a 350-degree oven for an hour with a cookie sheet under them to catch drips. Every one of them has performed superbly since, handling everything I've thrown at them flawlessly. If you're a terrible cook -and I mean, water-catches-fire, pans-explode, dangerously terrible cook like me-give cast iron a try before you give up.

Crazy let's-see-if-this-works attempt one, modified from a much larger recipe: Set the oven preheating to 350. On a medium-low burner (about "three-and-a-half" on my electric range), cook about two inches of a roll of sausage in the pot. Peel and slice a potato while it cooks, while desultorily poking at the sausage occasionally to turn it and break it into clumps. The sausage should be nice and brown and done through before you scoop it out onto a paper towel to drain. After scooping out the sausage onto a paper towel, but leaving the sausage grease in the pan, spread the potato slices across the bottom. Stir and turn them for a few minutes, then spread them out into a single layer again and crumble the cooked sausage over them. Pour about half a small carton of egg substitute over the sausage and potatoes. Cover with grated Cheddar or sliced cheese-food-product. Put the lid on, bang the whole mess into the oven, and ignore it for a while. When your stomach rumbles, wander back to it and find a poofy, unhealthy, delicious mess of breakfast inside. This turned out so well I had three breakfasts in a row, at one sitting.

If you want to look like you know what you're doing, get some small, cute cookie cutters and cut out a few shapes from the cooked potato slices. Save these out and put them on top of the cheese during the oven phase. This makes the final dish look like you know what you're doing and spent hours at it. Total time actually working: 15 minutes.

Crazy let's-see-if-this-works attempt two, also modified from a larger recipe: Gather a 30-ish-ounce can of peaches in syrup, a cheap box of plain cake mix, some cinnamon, and some butter. Dump the can of peaches in the pot, with about half the syrup. Shake out half the box of cake mix on top at pat it out even with a spoon or spatula or something. Sprinkle cinnamon over that and put a few dollops of butter around the surface. Put the lid on, shove it in the oven, and turn the oven on to 350. (Forgetting about -I mean, choosing against! -preheating the oven lets the pot warm with the oven and prevents thermal shock.) After an hour or so (or however long it takes to watch the new episode of Doctor Who and forget about the cobbler completely), remember in a startled panic that "OH WHOOPS I HAVE FOOD IN THE OVEN!" and run to check on it. Chances are, the tantalizing smell of the cake mix baking together with the peach syrup was what reminded you of your food, and the cobbler is ready to serve. Present it to your guests as though you spent more than 5 minutes upending boxes, jars, and cans into an empty pot, and watch it disappear.

Thanks to cast iron, I might get the hang of this cooking thing after all.

More seriously, I have yet to make something in this pot that didn't come out delicious, and -I cannot emphasize this enough -*I can't cook*. I could theorize about how the even heating and lack of hot spots makes the pot act more the way inexperienced chefs expect a pot to act, or I could go on about the effects of starting on the stovetop and transferring the dish to the oven, or I could rhapsodize about the joys of a pot allergic to being washed that only needs wiping clean and a light coating of oil before storing it, but the gist is this: ANYONE can cook in cast iron. Even me. And for experimenting, or cooking for one or two people, this little skillet/saucepan/casserole-dish is an inexpensive (and thus far indestructible!) way to start.

Just... don't put it in the microwave. Stay away from the microwave, and you'll be fine.

Best Deals for Lodge L2SP3 Cast Iron Serving Pot, Black, 2-Quart

This is a great pot -so great in fact that within a half hour of its delivery, I was ordering a second from Amazon.

Think of it as: a two quart Dutch Oven; an 8 inch wide, three inch (almost) tall skillet WITH LID; a braising pan for a couple of chicken breasts; a sauce pan; a casserole dish.

This is a lot of pot, especially for the price!

I'd given up on cast iron because I could never seem to get and keep the iron seasoned. But Lodge's new preseasoning solves my problem -I'm now replacing all my cookware with Lodge Logic (the fact it's an American company makes me even happier). THANKS, Lodge!

Honest reviews on Lodge L2SP3 Cast Iron Serving Pot, Black, 2-Quart

This is probably the cutiest and the least used cast iron cookware in my collection. If you need to cook anything which requires stirring, this one is too small. There is too little room to toss and turn the food around. It maybe fine for heating soups and beans etc. but then its an overkill to buy something for just heating stuff. I often find myself using the 3 quart chicken frier a lot. Even if you make smaller quantities of food, you still need some room to maneuver.

Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Lodge L2SP3 Cast Iron Serving Pot, Black, 2-Quart

I love this pot so much that I just ordered 2 more. We put all our side dishes in this. The size is perfect. It has a nice weight, not too heavy to handle.

It comes pre-seasoned which is convenient. As always with Lodge, quality is great. Nothing sticks and cleanup is a breeze.

We are trying to convert all our cooking over to cast iron. Cast iron lasts forever, cleanup is easy, things don't stick and I feel it is so much safer than using something with Teflon or aluminum.