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Mrs Fiddlesticks

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 10460

Posted: Tue Oct 21, 08 5:54 pm Post subject: Le Creuset owners whats your most used piece?
Or other iron cookware of course.... Local cookshop has a promotion on Le Creuset at the mo. I've got a large oval casserole I use weekly and am wondering what else to get - possibly the flatter casserole? - like a paella pan thing What do you get best value out of?

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Tue Oct 21, 08 6:00 pm Post subject:
Oval roaster and a round casserole. They're the only two bits of Le Creuset I own mind you, but I do use them both a lot.

VSS

Joined: 14 Jan 2007
Posts: 2845
Location: Llyn Peninsula, North Wales

Posted: Tue Oct 21, 08 6:00 pm Post subject:
we have an enormous roasting type dish that you can get a huge joint or a large goose in. It goes on the hotplate and you can get a cooked breakfast for most of the family in it. i use it all the time. On the whole though, i'm not a fan of le creuset.

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Tue Oct 21, 08 6:08 pm Post subject:
28cm frying pan, nice to get a workout when flipping pancakes.

baldybloke

Joined: 24 May 2008
Posts: 1388
Location: Wiltshire

Posted: Tue Oct 21, 08 6:16 pm Post subject:
Most used Le Creuset item is the kone kettle on the hob. Also got a small saucepan which gets daily use. There is a couple of cast iron frying pans in the cupboard as well. Finally got rid of all teflon coated pans. A substance that has never been tested as safe as cookware, so I've been led to believe.

oldish chris

Joined: 14 Jun 2006
Posts: 4148
Location: Comfortably Wet Southport

Posted: Tue Oct 21, 08 6:31 pm Post subject:

The most used item - the scrap metal skip. After a while the enamel chips off and the metal (either cast-iron or a heavy gauge pressed steel) rusts.

I stick to aluminium with a teflon coating.

(Does anyone actually believe that you can sell a product for the preparation of food that hasn't been tested as being totally safe? Site safer than the powerful chemicals needed to remove food residues from a cast iron pan (IMHO))

nats

Joined: 12 Jun 2007
Posts: 2374
Location: Swindon but not a Swindonian

Posted: Tue Oct 21, 08 7:04 pm Post subject:

Well I have a small casserole that I use a lot, a milk pan sized pan that has a lid that is really useful (boiling eggs, small quantities of stuff etc) but the one I really wouldn't be without even though I don't use it that often is the hugest casserole.... there's nothing like it! I do a cook on the table Japanese meal in it when we have guests, it's great for mulled wine etc, and for huge batches of anything that has to go in the oven.... It went on our wedding list thinking that no one would spend that much on us, but then a city lawyer rellie felt guilty about not being able to come...!!

nats

Joined: 12 Jun 2007
Posts: 2374
Location: Swindon but not a Swindonian

Posted: Tue Oct 21, 08 7:35 pm Post subject:
Suddenly realised that these are my most used LC products.. https://www.lecreuset.co.uk/Product-Range-uk/3-Ply-Stainless-Steel/Saucepans/ Not cast iron though - but they are the most wonderful saucepans in the entire known universe! I have to admit that we got them from the factory outlet here in Swindon and on sale and previous years model so no way did we pay full price but.....

Mrs Fiddlesticks

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 10460

Posted: Tue Oct 21, 08 7:42 pm Post subject:

nats wrote:

Suddenly realised that these are my most used LC products..

https://www.lecreuset.co.uk/Product-Range-uk/3-Ply-Stainless-Steel/Saucepans/

Not cast iron though - but they are the most wonderful saucepans in the entire known universe! I have to admit that we got them from the factory outlet here in Swindon and on sale and previous years model so no way did we pay full price but.....

useful to know, thank you. ( notes that you live in Swindon - I'm only half an hour from there. I have been around the factory outlet but perhaps I went at the wrong time as they didn't seem that much cheaper.)

I was wondering about one of these https://www.lecreuset.co.uk/Product-Range-uk/Cast-Iron/Casseroles/Shallow-Casserole-26cm/

Jb

Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 7761
Location: 91� N

Posted: Tue Oct 21, 08 7:52 pm Post subject:
Round casserole. We have one of the le creuset frying pans but we almost never use that I'm more likely to use an unbranded iron skillet Last edited by Jb on Tue Oct 21, 08 8:08 pm; edited 1 time in total

Nanny

Joined: 17 Feb 2005
Posts: 4520
Location: carms in wales

Posted: Tue Oct 21, 08 7:58 pm Post subject:

oval cassarole, use it a whole lot

love the stuff

years ago when a friend was moving and changing their kitchen from blue to green she sold me her set of 5 le creuset saucepans for �30...they were 18 months old and perfect....

couldn't wait for her to move again, when she did she gave me her king sized bed frame, fake victorian brass...it was only a year old and she was going to throw it on the skip because she decided she wanted a sleigh bed....

very wasteful woman but good news for me.....

nats

Joined: 12 Jun 2007
Posts: 2374
Location: Swindon but not a Swindonian

Posted: Tue Oct 21, 08 8:37 pm Post subject:

Mrs Fiddlesticks wrote:

nats wrote:

It was near the end of the year last year, they were clearing stock for the next model. That's when it was cheap! There's normally a good January sale as well - I'm planning a visit in Jan for my sisters wedding present!

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Tue Oct 21, 08 8:46 pm Post subject:
I've got the shallow casserole and it's used several times a week. Fry ups, casseroles, risotto etc plus a small oval one which is handy for a couple of pidgeons rabbit etc. The Swindon outlet has never been that cheap when I've been there. I've seen cheaper at local shops doing promotions.

Brandon

Joined: 11 Apr 2006
Posts: 114
Location: mid wales

Posted: Tue Oct 21, 08 8:50 pm Post subject:
B I G frying pan, and round casserole, great for curries, the frying pan is always on the hob...

Silas

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 6848
Location: Staffordshire

Posted: Tue Oct 21, 08 9:59 pm Post subject:

oldish chris wrote:

Having continuously used and am using these superb cooking pans for over 30 years I have to say you are talking tosh. WE bought our first piece, a frying pan, 31 years ago and use it every week still. Great quality stuff, much better that stainless steel or aluminium rubbish.

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