Le Creuset Soup Pot with Cover

by Le Creuset

Product Features

• Round, 4-1/2-quart soup pot can be used in the oven or on the stovetop
• Exterior displays satin-finish dark-charcoal color
• Made of enameled cast iron--unexcelled for heat distribution, retention
• Heavy, tight-fitting lid; plastic knob on lid ovenproof to 450 degrees F
• Dishwasher-safe; lifetime warranty against defects

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11.6 x 11 x 5.1 inches ; 10 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 11 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B00006CJLT
• Item model number: L2537-2667
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,407 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)

Product Description

Color: Red

Amazon.com Review

Beautiful enough for the table and durable enough to outlive its lifetime warranty against defects, this heavy, round, 4-1/2-quart soup pot is shaped to circulate ingredients' flavor while they simmer. Soup, stew, beans, or corned beef and cabbage then can be served stylishly. The pot 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 pot browns and cooks food uniformly and gently without hot spots and can be used for marinating. It's safe on any stovetop, including induction, and dishwasher-safe. The plastic knob on its heavy, tight-fitting lid is ovenproof to 450 degrees F. Like all Le Creuset cast-iron products, it's hand cast in a one-of-a-kind sand mold and hand finished at the Le Creuset factory in France. It carries a lifetime warranty against defects. --Fred Brack

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

76 of 78 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well Worth the cost, February 9, 2004

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Kar Dell "spiceumup" (North East United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Le Creuset Enameled Cast-Iron 4-1/4-Quart Soup Pot with Cover, Red (Kitchen)

Ok, so this pot is really two tools in one: A Great piece of cookware and a piece of exercise equipment. Lordy, it weighs a TON.
Ok so how does it cook? Very Well: Very even heat, no hot spots to burn your chowder, it will hold a simmer and come to a quick boil. It has a tight fitting lid that really seals in the heat. It is oven safe and the slopped sides make it easy to stir ingredients in to the broth without loosing them in a corner.

Easy to clean, well, really, VERY easy to clean. And I LOVE the red color. I find NOTHING other than cost and weight to criticize but let us face it: one gets what one pays for and this is a lifetime pot, your lifetime, your kid's lifetime, you r grandkids lifetime. Moreover, considering it is a pot and a Nautilus in one.......

31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better Than Your Mom's Old Soup Pot, February 7, 2003

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KrissyR "krissyr" (Lake Placid, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Le Creuset Enameled Cast-Iron 4-1/4-Quart Soup Pot with Cover, Red (Kitchen)

First let me say that I would not have bought this kind of high-end cookware had Amazon not made me an offer I couldn't refuse. I actually bought this on a whim thinking that if it wasn't anything special, then it goes into the church rummage sale.
The maiden voyage dish was a pot roast with vegetables. Okay, so it wasn't soup, but what a great roast. I browned the meat as usual, drained the fat, added the veggies and liquid. The whole thing went into the oven, cover and all. I served the meal from the stylish pot with rave reviews on all the components. Since then I have made soups and stews. It really holds up to slow stove-top cooking also.
Clean up? The enamel coating makes everything slide off with hot soapy water and a little nylon scubby. What more could you ask for? Okay, someone to come and actually do the cooking and clean up. But if you don't have the luxury of a personal chef, get this pot. I actually think of it as a potential heirloom to be passed on to my daughter. It is a little pricy, but worth the splurge.
Hey Amazon, make me a few more offers on Le Creuset cookware and I'll buy. Thanks from the bottom of my pot.

29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just the right size!!, August 2, 2005

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Wayne Fogel (The Villages, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Le Creuset Enameled Cast-Iron 4-1/4-Quart Soup Pot with Cover, Red (Kitchen)

This is a wonderful all-purpose pot. I use it for a multitude of purposes:

1. Making sauces for pastas and then adding the pasta to the sauce and tossing. The curved sides make it perfect for the quick and easy blending of shrimp scampi with lemon spaghetti for example.
2. Stir-fry. The sloping sides and great heat retention make stir-fry a natural.
3. Casseroles - Easy clean up and a comfortable size make this a wonderful casserole pot.
4. Reheating - the large surface area makes this the pot to go to when reheating almost any main course - lamb shanks come to mind immediately.

I find that I use this pot for almost everything except soup. For soup I turn to my handy 5-½ quart Le Creuset Dutch oven. Less surface area means less chance to slop over when stirring. I had the 7-½ quart soup pot and gave it away. It was far too much of a space hog on top of the stove. However this pot is neither too large not too small - it is just right!

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