Le Creuset Cookware Range

The first thing that almost anyone notices about Le Creuset cookware is its undeniable aesthetic appeal. Their pots and pans are beautiful, shiny looking things, in bright colours (red, blue, orange, almond and teal as well as black and white). They are traditional enough to be at home in a farmhouse kitchen, but also modern enough to look good great in a contemporary location. The material that they use at the Le Creuset factory is cast iron, which is poured into moulds and then sanded down by hand. However, rather than cooking in cast iron directly (sometimes the case with other cookware), the pots and pans are then enamelled to give them a hard, shiny ...  Read the complete review

For many years I had been using Pyrex Vision saucepans, you know, the light brown glass ones. They were great to use and easy to clean. You can sense a 'but' coming here can't you? Well here it is, but, they stopped making them, at least I couldn't find any to buy anywhere. This meant that when I broke a saucepan here and a lid there I needed to think about replacing the lot. I had always liked the look of the Le Creuset range of saucepans but had always thought that they were far too expensive, however I was feeling a bit flush at the time (the feeling has passed now sadly!) so I decided it was time to treat myself. I bought the ...  Read the complete review

As a man who loves to be in the kitchen slaving over a hot cooker, for years I had looked at and admired the beautiful cast iron pots and pans of Le Creuset. The enamalled Orange casserole pots, the hanging racks of saucpans and lids, how much did I want to own a set of these? I'd have sold my soul. Okay, maybe not my soul, but you get the idea about how much I wanted these pans. Le Creuset is made in the North of France in a factory at Fresnoy-le-Grand. Since 1925 they have been producing their pans in sand moulds. The moulds are destroyed after casting and the pots are sanded and smoothed by hand. Only after close ...  Read the complete review

Le Crueset cookware is made from cast iron which is meant to be the best way of cooking food. This is because it is very good at heat retention and so the food will cook very gently and is also economical at the same time. As they are made from cast iron it also makes them very strong and hopefully last a very long time indeed. The outside is coated enamel and comes in a variety of colours....blue, yellow, red, orange and green. The inside of the pans is also enamel and so makes the pans non stick. The handles are wooden so all in all the saucepans do look like the bees knees so how do they perform? I certainly havent got many complaints apart from a ...  Read the complete review

I cook alot and I have used every gadget, pan type imaginable. However, Creuset cookware has always been my firm favourite. Way back when I first went to University my mother bought me a small casserole dish and its still going now, good as new, 10 years or so later. I can assure you that it has seen a great deal of use over the years. As it is made from cast iron it needs only low or medium heats to achieve the perfectly cooked dish. It does however mean that it is awfully heavy and complete with casserole inside, lifting it from the oven to the work surface becomes quite an undertaking. A posistive point is that being cast iron the dish will remain ...  Read the complete review