That sounds like a wonderful partnership with your neighbour!!!

Nice!

What goes around comes around. You never said what this friend's done to help you out, so it seems fair to me.

Is it very heavy?

Oh, it is beautiful! It must be about 25 lbs. I could never lift it. I enjoy my 3 quart one as is heats so evenly and washes easily.

Nice! But heavy? I really love enamel cast iron.

Well deserved, Annie!!!! I love what you do for her, and she knows it will get far more use from you than she'd ever use it.

Congratulations, it's gorgeous!!

How very cool!

I found a similar one on Amazon for $560, and so that would be a lot of vegetables, but the repair work is probably worth that. I've never had a handyman charge less than $100 per visit, no matter what.

Elizabeth is right - it weighs 22.4 pounds, which is pretty hefty.

You could probably fit a whole turkey in there!

Excellent and gorgeous. Looks brand new. Huge. Should be perfect for sausing you tomatoes and salsa. They are super for braising with the little nubs under the lid that self-braise. A bit heavy for in and out of the oven but stove-top braising works. Could do a whole bone-in pork shoulder.

Here is my Staub stack. Put away now but lived on the back right less-used burner during the first lock-down. The baby 'my sweet baby' grain pot is alway on the stove-top. I use it 4-5 times a week and often every day. I like that the lids fit snug upside down for storage/stacking.

Annie, it's beautiful and will see good use with you. Please give her the enjoyment of bringing it to you. From what you've described, you've been the helpful neighbor to this point - now let her have the fun of reciprocating. Believe it or not, sometimes its more generous to let the other person be the giver ;0) And have that truck at the ready for the next time they need help ;0)

Well said, morz8! I believe it's good etiquette to graciously accept things that are given or offered in good faith - even if you may not exactly need or want them.

(Of course there are always exceptions.)

Wow, it's a beauty, for sure! I agree she probably enjoyed giving it to you. A nice result for both of you! It's definitely in the price range Lars mentioned.

What a great gift, Annie!!!! I love the color too. And, I can't imagine an enameled pot that big.

How perfectly lovely! I have a slightly smaller Le Creuset (blue!) which I use for similar things, for similar reasons. Enjoy it! Just another example of neighbors helping neighbors.

Lovely pot and also lovely when you have a symbiotic relationship with your neighbours. It is much like that in our rural neighbourhood. One neighbour who loves to play on his tractor usually plows our driveway before we are even up in the morning when it snows eveen though we are perectly capable of doing it ourselves. We give him home canning and meals for his freezer. We pasture another neighbour's sheep, he gives us a lamb (butchered and wrapped, not frolicking!) And on and on. We always let a neighbour or two know when we are going away and they do likewise and we all keep an eye out for one another. It's a nice way to live.

I think it would be a fair trade! It's not like she bought it for you. She had it and never used it -- it really is a win/win!

What goes around comes around.....I wish you were my neighbor!

It is one of life's great blessings to have neighbors and friends like that.

I used to leave mine on the back burner. That way it always stayed at counter high level so less lifting.

Gorgeous pot, Annie! And sounds well deserved. You'll think of them every time you use it and they will be pleased it is in a good home and being used, not to mention freeing up their cupboard space. It's so nice to hear stories like this-gives me some hope for the current times.

Lizbeth, my Grandmother used to tell me that it "doesn't cost anything to just be nice". I think we've lost that in a lot of ways. (sigh) However, I also think that there is a terribly loud minority that's making a lot of noise, and that the vast majority of people still are nice and can disagree without being disagreeable. I hope....

LindaC, I would love to be your neighbor, but I don't know if the neighborhood could take both of us, LOL.

I can't leave it on the stove top, because there's just no room right now, it's all taken up with canners! I could see leaving it there in the wintertime, though, through soup season. I still have no problem lifting it, but that day will probably come. Not yet, though.

Tomorrow I'm canning salsa and tomato marmalade, so it'll get some use again then.

Annie

I prefer Staub over Le Creuset. Love the black interior!

Well said, Annie. I agree.

You all are wonderful neighbors and definitely deserve a gift of this magnitude. Enjoy, I know you'll put it to multiple good uses. They too sound like lovely people!