A French Oven is a great gift for a man. You can make all sorts of manly meals in the French oven, with minimal know how. This is a real man's French Oven. Its a solid hunk of cast iron, heavily enameled in a real manly color, cobalt blue. I've had my French Oven for three years now, and it survived a trip to Afghanistan with me. I used it to cook all sorts of manly hunks of lamb and beef over a propane stove over there. It was indispensable. This French oven heats evenly, and doubles as a real manly piece of gym equipment, should you be lacking that. Clean up is a breeze with this particular model, and you can use rough scouring pads on it without damaging it, unlike your more feminine teflon coated models. Be a man and scrub your pot after you make your hearty stews! It could also serve as body armor or a makeshift shield in a pinch. Hurrah!