Cookware puzzlement
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I've never seen a lid anything like it.
Based on what's on eBay, your description of the metal being thinner, and the fact that it drips on the outside of the pan it covers, I guess I have to change my vote from "it's a sauteuse" to "it's a lid, but a poorly designed one".
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Tenacity - WTG haz it!
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Ha! I think I may know what this is!
I just finished watching a video where Josh Weissman makes a no- knead sourdough bread. He bakes it in a Lodge ācombo cookerā, which looks just like your pan setup except yours is upside down!
Apparently you can do other things with it and most of them use the taller part on the bottom, but for bread this appears to be how you use it.
Cheers!
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That is the one piece of cast iron I still have, one of those Lodge combo cookers. I bought it to bake bread in, though I used the large pan on the bottom. I could see it working the way it's shown in the photo you posted. Of course there would be no problem with anything running down the outside, as bread baking doesn't produce any condensation to speak of.
I decided two things: 1) a round loaf is harder to slice than an oblong one and 2) the cast iron was too heavy, especially challenging when it's been in a 400+ degree oven. I switched to a clay baker. Like this one:
https://breadtopia.com/store/breadtopia-cloche-bread-baker-oblong/
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We have a clay cooker called a Rƶmertopf. Donāt know how it would be for baking bread, but now Iām tempted to try it. I think most people use it to bake a whole chicken. I do a combo of root vegetables in there, one of John Cageās recipes.
