There is one kitchen brand that signals a seriously good chef, a person of esteemed taste. While you can argue the credibility of other kitchen staples—a Lodge cast iron, a Boos cutting board, or Miyabi knives—that brand is Le Creuset. We’ve assembled the best of the Le Creuset Prime Day deals so you can play saucier at a discounted price point.
The French company specializes in forever pieces, as likely to be seen in your grandmother’s kitchen as in Gen Z master chef/internet darling Romilly Newman’s. In her story last year, contributor India Roby described Le Creuset as the ultimate in aspirational cookware, “On top of a lifetime warranty, Le Creuset is the cookware you think of when you’re ready to intentionally invest.”
Aside from covering the legacy brand’s recent popularity among zillennials and the launch of their millennial pink collection (which I caved and bought), we remain collectively obsessed as a staff. To that end, we search every sale event for the best deals on Le Creuset cookware. If you can spare the dough, lead with Le Creuset’s signature cocotte, and if you’re not at a Dutch oven price point yet, treat yourself to one of their smaller items while you save up.
One of our favorite color varieties—and one of our favorite Prime Day home deals—the 3.5 quart Meringue colorway is exactly the thing you need to start your journey of becoming a famous French chef. I can vouch for the 3.5-quart size—as I told you I fell for the millenial pink—which I use between four to five times a week to make stews, soups, and if I was a better cook I’d make bread and Cornish hens in there. Someday. The same discount goes for colorway Peche.
For the more ambitious chef, there’s a 5.5-quart version—perhaps you can see where this is going with our following selection—and the Marseille, because it’s one of their most popular colorways, is much harder to find on sale. If you want styling inspo, refer to Ella Snyder’s kitchen.
For the most seasoned home chef, there’s the 6.75 quart. It’s on sale in Artichaut, which, along with Shallot, are my personal favorite color varieties. This is the stockpot you need for the upcoming holidays, when your relatives are coming in hoards—and hungry—whether you like it or not. I bet this could fit even two Cornish hens, side by side, if you’re so inclined.
Cerise on sale! Cerise on sale! If you’re doing a lot more braising than souping or stewing, then first of all kudos, that’s so chef, and secondly it’s worth getting a proper braiser. Sure, you can braise in a Dutch oven, too, but it’s not the same—you have to properly navigate the ratio of liquid to meat in a way that makes ample space for error. And what a flex to braise so much you need a braiser.
As much as we love their stoneware, their cast iron cookware holds up just as well. The Le Creuset chef’s oven is another amazing stock pot choice, especially as the holiday season ramps up and you’ll need broth on hand for all your winter soups and stews. The enameled cast iron makes for robust heat retention so your stock can simmer all day long without intervention, and the glass lid is specially designed to circulate steam and return moisture to your pot.
We have it on good authority that the Le Creuset stoneware line makes for incredible bakeware. The collection includes a 1.1-quart, a 2.5-quart, and 4-quart baking dishes so it covers all the bases—from bread to roast veg to apple cobbler. The stoneware build makes for excellent heat distribution, and while it’s not technically nonstick I can attest to its nonstick quality—one shy butter glaze before setting always does the trick. It’s also on sale at Wayfair, in six color varieties.
For some reason, this isn’t on sale—maybe because it’s already only $22. Regardless, it’s cheaper to order it through Amazon Prime (free shipping for Prime members, hello) than elsewhere when your “calculating” at add to cart then slaps you with a $10 shipping fee. Maybe this is a rogue choice, but we’re loving the Rhone at this size—makes for a dark and delicious detail on the back burner of your stovetop. I have one of these in Sea Salt and use it much more often than I’d thought. These come in surprisingly handy when you’re living microwave-free and half the recipes you make call for melted butter. Also great for reheating lunch without having to get a big pot dirty.
To wrap up the Le Creuset Prime Day deals, this is the most French-looking tea kettle on the market. Made from lightweight carbon steel for quick boiling, it gives an expensive-country-home quality to the kitchen. Mine lives on my stovetop, and even through all the wear and tear of what that means—constantly being jostled, bumped with cast irons, occasionally swept onto the ground in the chaotic process of withdrawing something hot from the oven, its in great shape—impervious to chipping, grease stains, burn marks.
