This Cleaner Should Be Your Dutch Oven’s New BFF — Cleaning Tips from The Kitchn

I'm a huge fan of my Dutch oven. I break it out so often in the wintertime for hearty foods like delicious stews and braised meats that by the end of the season it's ready to hibernate! And every once in a while I abuse the poor thing by making something without enough liquid, or leaving it on the stove for so long that I end up with burnt bits everywhere.

While we typically clean the dutch oven with soap and water after every use, it's not always as vigorously as humanly possible. So after a few months, it gets a bit of a patina — even if it doesn't have burnt-on bits.

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