I thought that Dutch ovens had three short legs and a flat lid with a lip to keep the coals in place. Also enamel will chip when heated unevenly so it has no use on a Dutch oven over open fire or coals. If you sell a casserole dish, call it a casserole dish.
AylmerYou're thinking of a camping, cowboy, or chuckwagon dutch oven. Not all dutch ovens have legs and are meant for putting in a fire. A dutch oven is just a thick-walled cooking pot with a tight fitting lid.
In fact, dutch ovens are called "casserole dishes" outside of the US.
Just a thought: while I'm generally a fan of Viking, these are mostly likely made in China, a country known to be producing and struggling with some of the worst pollution and dangerous environmental waste problems on the planet. Some of those pollutants are bound to end up (one way or the other) in some of the products China produces. A prime example, as it applies to cooking, are China's ceramic bakeware products. Those products are made from combinations of sand, clay and soil--all of which may or may not contain the contaminates known to be a problem in that country. So the question becomes, where do you draw the risk line? You're probably safe buying a Chinese-made TV, but would you buy a glazed casserole dish? And where in that spectrum does enameled cast iron fall?
Clixx13Here? I smear Massdrop here because this is their house and they should make it more comfortable and informative for its visitors. It's up to Amazon to put whatever they want on their pages and its up to Massdrop to do the same here. Viking can do whatever propaganda it wants too. But if Massdrop wants to stand out more - they can offer better information.