Do Meals taste better when cooked in cast iron?

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enamel cast iron pot

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Enamel won't give your food flavor.

Now straight cast iron could give food a metal taste. My cast iron is all I cook meat in.

I have SS pots but those are for sides, gumbos, soups, and sauces.

If I'm browning meat, it's in my cast iron pots. I had an enamel pot, now I only have 2 black pots. One 8qt Lodge and one big one (#12 I think) that my dad bought me from a pawn shop.

That’s completely false. An uncoated cast iron pot can and will impart flavor into a dish.

I use cast iron for cooking/browning/crust much more than for flavor. IMO it adds little or no flavor. Browning caramelization does change the flavor, so maybe that is what you taste.

For example, there is no way to get the flavor I like in cornbread, other than to cook it in Cast Iron. What I like is not the flavor of the skillet, but the crust my cornbread gets when baked in my old well seasoned skillet with sizzling hot oil when I add the batter.

Cast iron may fry better, but that is because it holds the heat better when the meat is added after you get it hot. That retained heat changes the way the crust forms, which takes me right back to my crust on cornbread comment, and not any flavor from the cast iron.

Or you just don’t know what you’re talking about

I made a creamy turkey soup with homemade stock like yours but without noodles and added a touch of whipping cream, just enough to cloud up the stock.
It was definitely in my top 5 favorite meals this year.