14 Inch Oval Au Gratin - Blue

by Le Creuset

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 7 pounds
• ASIN: B00005QFOC
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #346,467 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Beautiful enough for the table and durable enough to outlive its lifetime warranty against defects, this 14-inch oval au gratin dish can be used in a variety of ways. As its name implies, it's perfect for sticking under the broiler to brown a blanket of cheese on seafood, vegetables, or pasta. It can also go into the oven for baking savory or sweet dishes. And for poultry, it's ideal as a roasting dish. Since it's safe on any stovetop, including induction, it can also be used for cooking a fish. The dish is made of cast iron, with both exterior and interior clad in two coats of enamel.

As cast iron is unexcelled for heat distribution and retention and enamel is impervious to acids and odors, the dish browns and cooks food uniformly and gently without hot spots and can be used for marinating. It's also dishwasher-safe. Like all Le Creuset cast-iron cookware, the dish is hand cast in a one-of-a-kind sand mold and hand finished at the Le Creuset factory in France. --Fred Brack

Product Description

One of the staples of the Le Creuset cookware collection and in classically-trained chefs kitchens, is the Oval Au Gratin. Potatoes Au Gratin simply arent the same baked in anything less than this Le Creuset favorite. Au Gratins are just one of the recipes that cook to perfection in this piece of cookware: be inventive with it by preparing a wide range of dishes from macaroni and cheese to mini lasagnas to Greek spanokopita (cheese pie). And, dont forget desserts! Cobblers brown evenly and will look all the more appetizing when served in this elegant cookware classic. ...

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great for chicken, January 31, 2007

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A. Davis (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 14 Inch Oval Au Gratin - Blue

I bought this to replace an ancient Dansk cast iron au gratin, which had developed a spider web of cracks in the enamel. I use this dish almost exclusively for roasting chicken and beef. I think an oval is a far better shape for roasting--there is less juice evaporation because there is less wasted surface area around the bird. Also, although there are many pottery versions of au gratin pans (including a le creuset), nothing, but nothing browns better than cast iron, which for roasting purposes, is what it's all about.