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Cookware - Decorating with Le Creuset Cookware

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Decorating with Le Creuset Cookware

Le Creuset cookware is an icon that has been around for decades. The company makes cookware in hundreds of forms, from traditional ‘all around’ pots to couscous tagines and teapots. But perhaps because it is French, Le Creuset cookware has aesthetic appeal too.

For years, Le Creuset has been making mostly iron cookware covered in different, rich shades of enamel. Their most famous pieces are solid colors or perhaps one tone from light to dark, such as the orange ‘flame’ line. Some older pieces are covered with painted designs. In the last few years, Le Creuset has started making stoneware, utensils, and kitchen textiles too. The result is forms that iron is not capable of, still in colors and an esthetic that make great kitchen decor.

Displaying Practical Pots and Pans

Le Creuset cookware is beautiful, but it is also made of heavy iron or stoneware. That means skillets cannot hang from just any hook and that pots and baking dishes should not be put on a delicate or small table where they may be knocked off.

Le Creuset skillets are all hangable all have a pierced handle. However, only hang Le Creuset from reinforced, strong hooks. Such a heavy pan will pull a nail right out of the wall. A good idea is an iron pot rack suspended above the kitchen island with strong chains. Just be sure to have plenty of clearance; hitting your head on an iron pan will cause a real headache.

Terrines, baking dishes and soup pots mostly come with attractive lids. So you can easily display these pieces and also keep them clean and dustfree. Make sure your kitchen shelf is strong enough to hold several pounds of iron before giving your Le Creuset cookware a home there.

Decorating with Le Creuset

Le Creuset also makes cookware that is perhaps more valuable for decoration than for practical cooking. For example, they make an absolutely beautiful line of iron casseroles shaped like peppers, eggplant, tomatoes, and other vegetables. They come in sizes big enough to serve from or small enough for individual dishes. Since the bases of these are not flat, they cannot be used to cook on the stove, though they will go in the oven. Obviously the point is more decoration; and it succeeds wonderfully.

Finally, there are a few stoneware accessories that are explicitly for decoration to match Le Creuset pots and pans. Pieces like utensil canisters and cake plates are perfect for the countertop as they are not too heavy.

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