Why I Love My Le Creuset Sauté Pan

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy is simply a elder reviewer astatine The Verge covering nan smart home, Internet of Things, and, arsenic she puts it, “as galore room gadgets arsenic I tin get my hands on.” In her 4 years here, she’s tested everything from smart locks, lights, and doorbells to robot vacuums (some pinch arms), robot lawnmowers, and an actual location robot. But, she says, “the bosom of my location is my kitchen, and I love a bully smart room gadget. I’ve tested a smart trash can, smart mixer, smart pizza oven, smart crystal maker, and yes, moreover a smart fridge. But nary of these could ever switch my favourite room gadget — my Le Creuset sauté pan.”   

When did you get your Le Creuset pan?

My Le Creuset cookware was a wedding gift. I’m astir to observe my 20th wedding anniversary, truthful it’s been astir a while! 

Its charismatic sanction is Le Creuset Signature Enameled Cast Iron Deep Saute Pan, 4 1/4-Qt., and you tin only get it astatine Williams Sonoma, which I discovered erstwhile I tried to bargain 1 arsenic a wedding gift for my brother-in-law. I did bargain it for them, and I besides sewage 1 for my sister-in-law arsenic her wedding gift a fewer years later! Thankfully, I americium now retired of in-laws to bargain them for. They’re not cheap.

What do you usage it for?

I usage it almost each clip I navigator a meal. It’s hands down nan best, astir versatile cookware I’ve ever owned. Some of my favourite dishes to navigator successful it are frittatas, stews, and bolognese condiment (it tin simmer successful nan oven pinch nan lid connected astatine 200 degrees for 8 hours). 

I besides usage it for searing meats for illustration chickenhearted thighs and pork cops. It’s besides awesome for fish, and I emotion to make Yorkshire puddings, Dutch babe pancakes, and moreover nan occasional pizza successful it.

What do you for illustration astir it?

I emotion that it’s large capable to navigator a beef stew aliases a full batch of soup, while besides easy to conscionable scramble eggs in. I besides emotion that it has a grip and a lid and that everything tin spell successful nan oven — up to 500 degrees! And it each goes successful nan dishwasher — though I mostly hand-wash it, arsenic it takes up an full rack.

Le Creuset cookware is known for its enameled cast-iron, which has astonishing power distribution, truthful it’s my go-to for immoderate searing, browning, aliases sauteing. The champion point is really overmuch aboveground area it has, which makes browning meats easy to do successful 1 batch.

Plus, its ace heavy sides mean I tin navigator a one-pot repast successful it without things flying retired nan sides erstwhile I’m stirring. It’s cleanable for all-in-one dishes for illustration pork stroganoff, risotto, my favourite Mexican beef-’n’-rice dish, and immoderate operation of protein, sauté-able veggies, and a bully cookware sauce, for illustration this Creamy Tuscan Chicken dish I make regularly.

Is location thing you don’t for illustration astir it, aliases that you’d amended if you could?

Other than nan price, nan only downside is its weight. At 13 pounds, it weighs almost arsenic overmuch arsenic a 6-month-old baby, truthful it’s almost ever a two-hander. My grandma was a master cook, and she swore by Le Creuset pans. But arsenic she sewage older, she complained that she couldn’t usage them anymore, arsenic they were excessively heavy.

I besides person not been a exemplary Le Creuset owner; nan enamel wrong is acold from pristine, but I still usage it each nan clip and don’t spot immoderate request to switch it.

As personification who reviews nan latest tech gadgets — galore of which, successful nan best-case scenario, person a 10-year lifespan — pulling retired a 20-year-old cookware each nighttime to navigator meal gives maine a bully emotion of permanence and tradition.