Buy Staub 4.5 Quart Oval Cocotte, Cherry RedStaub 4.5 Quart Oval Cocotte, Cherry Red Product Description:
- Oval French oven's durable, black-matte enameled interior doesn't need seasoning
- Made of cast iron with vibrant, enameled ceramic finish
- Features cast-iron handles and lid, ceramic base, and innovative self-basting spikes under lid
- Hand wash and dry; best used at low to medium settings; oven-safe to 500 degrees F
- 4.5-quart French oven measures 11-3/8 inches in diameter; lifetime limited warranty
Product Description
The Staub journey begins in Alsace, France. Rich in history, food, and craft, it is a region renowned for hearty one-pot recipes. Staub has been producing the best cast iron products for professional and aspiring cooks since 1974. Staub’s French oven is a timeless standby for stews, roasts, soups, casseroles and other one-pot classics. Staub has perfected this tradition in our signature "La Cocotte" French Oven, the choice of some of the world's best chefs. La Cocotte moves beautifully from the stove to your table.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Beautiful, useful pot
By Hornbeam
This is a wonderful pot, as beautiful as it is useful. Although large enough for a big dish, it's also good for moderate-sized recipes, where for example you fry onions and have to stir a lot -- the ingredients don't overflow the pot or splash out. Seasoning it was a snap: just rub in a bit of cooking oil. Because it heats up well on low heat, there's less danger of burning the food. And of course, this glossy red pot looks great! The interior finish is black enamel; has to be treated carefully (wooden or plastic utensils), but can't, I assume, discolor or show scratches. The only drawback for some may be its weight: the pot alone weighs 8 pounds and the lid 5 pounds. Add some contents and you have a hefty piece, which might be too much for some to lift out, hot, from the oven.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Beautiful
By veronica s
I love this pot... but I rarely use it. I bought this cocotte about 2 years ago and may have used it twice in that time frame. I consider it to be a medium size, and for some recipes, even small. I expected to use it mostly for cassoulet but my recipe overflows from this pot so that didn't work out so well. Depending on the volume you typically cook, it could be an absolutely fabulous pot but I almost always defer to my Le Creuset Enameled Cast-Iron 7-1/4-Quart French Oven. I tend to make big pots of soups or stews, or occasionally roast a chicken, so the cocotte is a little less convenient. This may be just me, but I tend to think of it as more of an oven piece than a stovetop piece, maybe given the shape. I plan to find more ways to utilize it, but if you have other enameled cast iron pots in this size range or bigger, this may not be the most useful thing to purchase. If you don't, and you almost always cook in small quantities, this is a beautiful addition. But if you're only going to buy one piece, I would recommend sizing up a few quarts to get more use out of the pot.Also, my pot was not the solid cherry red shown in the photo, but a more variegated deep red at the bottom fading into the cherry red toward the top. It's really beautiful and I'm glad it ended up being different than the photo, but just a heads up.
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