But, I absolutely love the Lelay Crusade brand. It is such good quality.
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Yes, they are more expensive, but they are high quality. These are 15 years old. I use them every single day and I have no complaints. So for me it was money well spent because they truly did la they do last and I use them all the time.
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Owned 15 years
They have stood the test of time in my family. I've had them all for over 15 years and we're a large family. I'm I cook for between seven and nine people every single day in our household. So, my pots and pans get a lot of use out of them. And they are impeccable shape for having had as much use as they are. They're…
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Owned 15 years
This is what I call my chili pot. He's my winter uh stew big, you know, roast a turkey in here pot. You can do two chickens. He's very very large. He is so heavy. Um but like really sturdy. Um I when I cook my chili, it's about 40 lbs of meat that I am cooking in here and with between the meat and the beans and it…
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- use-case fit about Le Creuset round Dutch oven Owns it cites shape and form, size and capacity, versatility
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Owned 20 years
But this 5 and 1/2q, it holds a great amount. You can do a a small chicken in here. Actually, a pretty good sized chicken, a beef roast. I done beef burgon in here. This is great for making a large batch of soup um for you know the winter. You can do your chowters or whatnot, but it's a pretty great big versatile size.
I will say this is nice for larger families. If you've got, you know, uh five or six in your family, this is a perfect pot.
So it is a really good size. You can do a small chicken in here. You can do a beef roast in here. So if you wanted to make a smaller batch of beef bagon for like a family of four or five, this guy is perfect.
This is also the one that I cook all of my sourdough um round uh little bowls and the sourdough loaves, the round ones in. This pot is perfect for my batch of it. It's got enough height. I don't feel like you need to have a second like specialty Dutch oven for your bread baking. I do mine right in this pot and it just…
This is great for mac and cheese, making a peach crisp, a small chowder for, you know, like a small soup for about four people. This is the perfect size for it.
So, it is great for smaller families, or if you're on your own, you can make smaller sourdough loaves than this as well. This can make you a much bigger one, but this is perfect for making a slightly smaller loaf.
Um, again, this is a great pot to have. I use this for a lot of my side dishes.
But they are great great products for both making breads, making soups and roasting in.
We also have the three quart sauté pan. This is an amazing pan.
This is one of my favorite pots. It is a versatile, pretty ginormous stock pot.
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Um I typically make my mashed potatoes in this for my family. I whip it up.
This is perfect for making individual batches of pasta, oatmeal, or making sauces and gravies.
I'll use this a lot to kind of make uh, you know, sweet kind of caramelized fillings or whatnot for desserts.
We also have, this is my personal favorite of it. This is the three quart saucepan.
This is a perfect pot for making large batches of soups, big batches of mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving.
My mom has a Lelay Crusade pot that she got in 1975. I think it was a wedding gift that she got and it is still kicking. Actually, when I was a kid, I tried to turn it into a kiln to fire some clay that I had shaped up and it still makes great food to this day. So, it's kind of a testament if it can, you know, survive…
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Owned 50 years
This is great for making up a rice medal or palaf or you sauté up vegetables, then you add in your rice, your broth, and then you let it come to a simmer and you put your lid on and you let it sit and then 20 minutes later you have a delicious rice uh palaf.
And then we have the larger version of this. This is the six quart sauté pan, which is an amazing tool to also have in the kitchen, especially for large families.
Um, a lot of times I'll do spaghetti and meatballs in here where I can put my meatballs, bake them up, then add the sauce, throw in my uh noodles, and we've got one pot meal for everything.
It conducts heat. It really heats up pretty fast and it keeps it nice and even.
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But this is a great uh small pan to have. Perfect for anytime you need to make a sauce um with something. Just love it.
But the fact that it is is multiple. It's literally three in one. So, you get a lot of options out of this um pretty large pan.
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Um, this is a great um if you're going to do Asian style cuisines because it allows you to kind of heat up and crisp up on the side where the direct heat really sticks to the bottom. Um, but if you have a gas stove, the flames will go up and it just gives you more surface area while allowing the sauces to stick down…
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So, a walk is definitely if you're into cooking Asian foods and cuisines, it is a great tool to have in your kitchen um because of the its unique way of cooking, allowing the sauces to drip down but giving you a crisp edges on the side.
But they're just a great um set of frying pans. They conduct heat really well.
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And they're also oven safe, so you can stick them right into the oven and heat them up as well.
These are an excellent collection to have in different sizes. I think they're really great to have the three var varieties since a lot of times when you're cooking up dinners, you're going to have your main proteins in one and then your vegetables in another and you might have another side item and vegetables another.
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Um, it is not overly heavy heavy, but it really does conduct the heat well. It boils up well.
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And the bonus is is the way that the handles are attached to it. They do not get hot. So, you're able to dump out and maneuver this thing while it's full of boiling hot liquid. And the same thing, the handle on the top does not really conduct heat as well.
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but then you just have to remember with the enamel coating, you just use silicone or wooden utensils in it. Avoid metal because that will scratch your enamel.
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They have this nice enamel coating which makes them non-stick
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It holds up really well.
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It has this nice durable handle right here. So, when if you want to move it in and out of places, you can.
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It can make so many more than just sautéing.
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It's also oven safe, so you can just pop it in the oven when you're uh if you want to cook something, melt it up.
It has that big sturdy lip, which is a little bit higher than the three court one, but it allows you to create more versatile things.
Um, this is great for doing corn on the cob or any um vegetables that you need to boil.
It is also great for frying. So, you can fill it up, you can drop your food in, and then you can pull it out when it's ready and done frying.
So, you can put a head of broccoli in here, all sorts of things. Steam it up and cook it out here.
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So when you're cooking up a huge batch of pasta, you can just or potatoes or vegetables of any sort, you can just pull this out. All of the liquids would stay down below.
This is great if you're going to make an asparagus soup or something where you need to keep the liquids. You can do it in here.
And then of course, you also have just a giant stock pot to do. Um, you can put uh this is enough to feed a small army.
Um, I have a big family and we can make huge batches of soup for this in the winter time, which is great.
Um their handles stay uh cool when you're cooking with them. so you don't have to worry about them.
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Um I can put the uh beers in here and it won't damage it because it is made out of the stainless steel.
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It has again that nice handle for maneuvering around, being able to dump out um strain if we need to.
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So, it is a great pot to have. Uh it's a great tool to have in your kitchen, especially if you need to make larger batches of things.
I will say they are heavy, but that's because they are cast iron.
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It's nice. It's got the he heft to it um and it is really really great pot.
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It's very lightweight.
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Um and it's just a great size to have.
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This uh has actually been with me for over 20 years. Just a testament to the quality of Lelay Cruset. I've had most of these for almost 15, but this one I've had for 20 years and I even got it secondhand.
Owned 15 years