Hi Robin, if you don't think your Dutch oven is suitable for perheating empty, it's fine to put the pot/dough together into a preheated oven. When using this method, I would remove the lid after 25 minutes of baking. You also have the option to bake with a cold start. When letting your dough rise in your Dutch oven for the final rise, this is a situation where the dough is a little more likely to stick, so take extra precautions. I would recommend either greasing your pot well or lining the pot with sprayed parchment paper. If you crumple the paper up before spraying it with baking spray, this will help it conform to the pot more readily. 

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