Originally Posted by Rage9

Chillis, soups, sloppy joes, stewing or braising meat, roasting whole chickens, and on the rare occasion I deep fry it's perfect for that. Anytime I need a big oven or stove proof cooking vessel it comes in to play.

For example, chicken enchiladas, roast the chicken right in the dutch oven, remove all the vegetables (roasting it on a bed of mirepoix) and you have a nice chicken base. Add all your enchilada ingredients and cook on the stove.

The best thing about dutch ovens are they are hella easier to clean than a lot of roasting pans. I have a stainless steel roasting pan and it's a bitch to clean, and I can only really use it for one thing, roasting... not much of a multi-tasker.