By butterfly from Rammstein air base, Germany on 4/7/2008

This is a great overall dutch oven, it heats evenly, its easy to clean and big enough for a large crowd, and lets not forget at a reasonable price. I would definately recommend this over some of the more expensive ones that do the exact same thing.

By Jenesis76 from Washington state on 4/1/2008

This is my first and only Dutch oven, and although I don't have a frame of reference, I couldn't be more pleased. I bought it for a specific recipe: Cooks Illustrated's Almost No-knead Bread. They recommended a Tramontina Dutch oven,[...] It baked the bread to perfection, and now I'm using it for boiling spaghetti, since it's the only pot I have that's big enough to handle unbroken strands. I anticipate cooking chili and stews in it.Quality seems exceptional for a [$]Dutch oven: heavy, lovely choice of colors (I chose red to complement my kitchen), and an enameled finish that so far, seems to clean easily enough.Yes, I recommend this choice for the casual cook who isn't looking for the absolute best, but a good-quality, very heavy-duty, attractive Dutch oven.

By SagaSaga from Southern California on 2/26/2008

I bought this to use for baking bread (it holds in the heat very well, and doesn't lets the steam escape, thus baking the bread in a normal oven with results closer to what I'd have to use a steam oven for normally), and it's very very good.

As an enameled cast iron pot for its more traditional use, it's excellent too. I've also had great success in making french cheese in it. (Enameled pots are great since they're non reactive.)

It obviously is not a Le Creuset (quite a price difference there), but if you don't have one to compare with, I don't think you'll be missing much or anything at all. This pot's quality is excellent and quite surprising for its price range.
If you bake bread in it and need to go above 450F, simply unscrew the top handle and cover the little hole with a bit of foil. (Or get a replacement metal handle in a hardware store.) It works fine.
Just treat it with care and follow the instructions and it will stay with you for a long time.

As for the store itself, I'm so glad I bought it from this place. I had never shopped from this shop before, so I wasn't sure at first, but it was a wonderful surprise.
I had hesitated in buying a pot so heavy from a website after I heard nightmare stories of people getting theirs damaged during to shipping due to poor packaging from other places. (The enamel can chip when hit hard, but some other places shipped so poorly that handles would get broken!)

When I ordered mine from here, not only did it arrive pretty fast and with surprisingly cheap shipping, but it was extremely well packaged, twice more packaging protection than from the other shop I heard the stories about. (Other shop simply used the manufacturer's shipping carton, while "Chef's Corner" actually put that one inside an extra box really well secured with a lot of protective styrofoam pop-corn between the two boxes). As a result, my pot arrived perfectly safe, and I was delighted.

Excellent service, I'm recommending to my fellow gourmet friends, and will shop here again and again. :)