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boilsover

boilsover

On 7/1/2018 at 2:25 PM, kayb said:

But I would have doggone sure jumped on that deal. What a find!

 

I hate to be the pee on the campfire here, but... 

 

Early in my cooking life, I invested quite heavily in Le Creuset, and had most of the saucepans--and most everything else (in Rotuts Blue).  Both  the wooden-handled  and hollow "blob" saucepan versions.  I even had a strange third variant with a flat cast iron handle that "mated" with an even stranger cover/tiny poele.  In my humble opinion, these are possibly the second-worst saucepans ever conceived (Visions, take your bow!).  They are sluggish in the extreme, and the rims chip easily.  The only good thing about them is the spout, I think.

 

At the time I bought my large batterie of Le Creuset, I thought it was the sine qua non of performance cookware.  From where I look now, I think Le Creuset cost me at least a decade of cooking advancement and enjoyment.

 

Sorry, carry on. 

boilsover

boilsover

On 7/1/2018 at 2:25 PM, kayb said:

But I would have doggone sure jumped on that deal. What a find!

 

I hate to be the pee on the campfire here, but... 

 

Early in my cooking life, I invested quite heavily in Le Creuset, and had most of the saucepans--and most everything else (in Rotuts Blue).  Both  the wooden-handled  and hollow "blob" saucepan versions.  I even had a strange third variant with a flat cast iron handle that "mated" with an even stranger cover/tiny poele.  In my humble opinion, these are possibly the second-worst saucepans ever conceived (Visions, take your bow!).  They are sluggish in the extreme, and the rims chip easily.

 

At the time I bought my large batterie of Le Creuset, I thought it was the sine qua non of performance cookware.  From where I look now, I think Le Creuset cost me at least a decade of cooking advancement and enjoyment.

 

Sorry, carry on. 

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