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.
