Saucepans are a staple for home cooks and professional chefs alike. After all, these versatile pieces of cookware open up an endless world of culinary possibilities. But before buying your first saucepan, there are a number of considerations to make.
What material is best suited for your cooking habits? What size saucepan do you need? And what do you intend to cook the most with your saucepan?
Le Creuset’s Saucepans are built to last a lifetime of delicious meals with premium materials, including Stainless Steel and Toughened Nonstick. Ultimately, each saucepan comes with its own set of unique advantages and intended uses.
Whether you are just starting your Le Creuset collection, or are simply looking to upgrade your existing saucepan, this guide will equip you with everything you need to make an informed purchasing decision, including four additional factors to consider when buying a Le Creuset saucepan.
Why Choose Le Creuset's Saucepans?
Le Creuset’s Saucepans combine premium materials and expert craftsmanship, delivering consistently delicious results every single time. From simmering a soup or reducing a sauce to preparing healthy vegetable side dishes, our saucepans offer home cooks unmatched versatility in the kitchen.
Versatile, durable, and easy to use, Le Creuset’s saucepans tick off every box a home cook needs to either elevate their favourite recipes or earn their stripes in the kitchen. These pieces of cookware are also available in a range of different sizes to accommodate groups and families both big and small. Simply assess your cooking needs and pick the perfect Le Creuset Saucepan that best suits your daily meal prep habits!
Stainless Steel Saucepan
An undisputed Le Creuset essential, no cookware collection is complete without a Stainless Steel Saucepan. This saucepan features our ongoing commitment to culinary innovation and expert European craftsmanship, helping inspire creativity where it matters most—in the kitchen. From its uses to benefits, discover how our Stainless Steel Saucepan can elevate traditional meal prep.
Put simply, Le Creuset’s Stainless Steel Saucepan is a piece of cookware featuring a three-layer construction with a proprietary blend of professional-grade metals. This Saucepan also comes equipped with a heat-responsive aluminum core, offering superior heat retention and even heat distribution.
Its triple-layer construction also ensures it can withstand higher temperatures than traditional pieces of cookware. Our Stainless Steel Saucepan has been carefully designed with a tight-fitting lid and convenient interior capacity markings, making it an ideal first purchase for beginner home cooks. Best of all, its convenient stick handle stays cool while your sauces simmer to perfection.
Our Stainless Steel Saucepan can be used for a number of different cooking techniques and recipes, including simmering, sautéing, and boiling. Featuring superior heat retention qualities, this Saucepan is ideal for cooking grain dishes such as rice and quinoa, exposing ingredients to a consistent heat source.
Our Stainless Steel Saucepan is equally suited for preparing soups and stews, equipped with tall, straight sides to prevent splatter. This versatile piece of cookware can also be used to blanch veggies, and of course, reheat leftovers, making for a convenient addition for weekday meal preparation.
Le Creuset’s Stainless Steel Saucepan offers home cooks a number of advantages compared to traditional saucepans. For one, these pieces of cookware feature a non-reactive surface and can be used to cook acidic ingredients, preserving the pure flavors of ingredients.
Our Stainless Steel Saucepan ensures even heat distribution to eliminate hotspots thanks to its triple-ply construction. And once preheated, Le Creuset’s Saucepans maintain temperature exceptionally well for consistent and uniform cooking. This precise temperature control is particularly crucial when preparing sensitive dishes. Best of all, Le Creuset’s Stainless Steel cookware offers a sleek, professional look that fits well in any kitchen decor.
Toughened Nonstick Pro Saucepan
The Toughened Nonstick Pro Saucepan has established itself as yet another staple across households, offering home cooks unparalleled flexibility and ease of use, particularly for recipes with sensitive ingredients. Ideal for beginner and experienced chefs alike, there are few cooking techniques this Le Creuset saucepan can’t be used for.
Le Creuset’s Toughened Nonstick Pro Saucepan delivers the ease of nonstick cooking with a surface that is free from harmful compounds. Its nonstick coating is built to withstand daily use, and is resistant to chipping or flaking.
Featuring a tight-fitting lid, tall sides, an ergonomic stay cool handle, our Toughened Nonstick Pro Saucepan has all the features you need for seamless and easy meal preparation. It also comes equipped with stainless steel rivets that will resist rust and corrosion for years to come.
Whether you are preparing scrambled eggs, warming up a soup, or preparing delicate pancakes in the morning, this Toughened Nonstick Pro Saucepan has you covered.
Our Toughened Nonstick Pro Saucepan is perfectly suited for recipes that call for sensitive ingredients. Perfect for sauces, rice and grain dishes, breakfast recipes, vegetables, and even desserts, this versatile saucepan prevents ingredients from sticking and burning. It is equally suited for low-fat recipes that require minimal oil and butter.
Indeed, this Toughened Nonstick Pro opens up the culinary possibilities, from simmering and sautéing to boiling, deglazing, and whisking. Best of all, its completely nonstick surface makes it ideal for beginner home cooks eager to experiment with new recipes.
The primary benefit of a Le Creuset Toughened Nonstick Pro Saucepan is its durable nonstick surface, preventing food from sticking. This nonstick coating ultimately eliminates the need for cooking with oils and other fats, offering a healthier alternative to traditional meal preparation.
Durable enough to withstand everyday use, our Toughened Nonstick Pro Saucepan embodies the buy-it-once-for-life nature of our pieces. This piece of cookware is also oven-safe up to 500°F (260°C) and is compatible with all cooktops, making it a versatile addition to any cookware collection.
Le Creuset Saucepans vs Sauciers
Our Saucepans and Sauciers often get compared given their similarities, however, a few key distinctions, nonetheless, exist. For one, Le Creuset’s Saucepans have tall, straight sides to contain splatter, and are best suited for preparing side dishes and grains. On the other hand, our Sauciers have rounded sides and a shorter profile. This makes whisking a delicate sauce easier, ensuring no food gets stuck in the corners.
Both these pieces of cookware are compatible with all cooktops, including gas, election, and induction ranges, adding to their versatility. Ultimately, Le Creuset’s Saucepans and Sauciers complement each other, excelling at different cooking techniques and recipes.
Factors to Consider When Buying a Le Creuset Saucepan
There are a number of factors to consider when selecting the right Le Creuset Saucepan for your needs. After all, every chef’s cooking needs are unique. From size and capacity to cooktop compatibility and design, each element plays a crucial role in ensuring that your new saucepan will seamlessly fit into your daily meal prep habits.
Choosing the right size and capacity is the first step in finding the perfect Le Creuset saucepan for your cooking needs. In other words, how many people do you typically cook for, or do you frequently host friends and family?
Our Saucepans are available in a number of different sizes ( 1.9 L, 2.8 L, and 3.8 L),depending on your daily meal prep habits. The general rule of thumb is to plan for 1 litre per person, and then round up. So a family of four, for example, would typically need a 3.8 L Saucepan.
A tight-fitting lid is an essential feature of any Saucepan, locking in heat, moisture and flavour for delicious final results. Le Creuset’s Saucepans come outfitted with tight-fitting lids, creating the ideal environment for all your favourite sauces, soups, and side dishes to come together. They are equally important for containing messes, making post-meal cleanup a breeze.
Our Saucepans also come with an ergonomic stay cool handle for a secure grip, even when wearing oven mitts. This ensures your Le Creuset Saucepan can easily be transferred from the oven to the stovetop and on the table with ease.
Le Creuset’s Saucepans epitomize versatility in the kitchen and are compatible with all heat sources, including gas, electric, halogen, ceramic, and induction cooktops. Indeed, no matter your kitchen setup, Le Creuset’s Saucepans make for a perfect fit.
Le Creuset Saucepans are also oven-safe up to 500°F (260°C), offering the flexibility to transition seamlessly from stovetop to oven. This feature is particularly ideal for recipes that require browning on the stove and finishing in the oven.
Different materials are best suited to different types of recipes and cooking techniques, and play a crucial role when purchasing a Le Creuset Saucepan. Available in Stainless Steel and Toughened Nonstick, each material has its own uses it’s best suited for.
Our Stainless Steel Saucepans are great for quick heating and precise temperature control, while our Toughened Nonstick Pro Saucepan is perfect for low-fat cooking and easy cleanup with more sensitive ingredients. Ultimately, the choice will come down to your personal preferences and cooking needs.
Find the perfect Le Creuset Saucepan
Whether you are a novice home cook, or work in a professional kitchen, the saucepan makes for the ultimate meal prep companion. From hearty soups and slow-cooked stews to perfectly prepared sauces and side dishes, this versatile piece of cookware is a must-have in any Le Creuset collection. Of course, finding the perfect Le Creuset saucepan will ultimately depend on your unique cooking needs and daily meal prep habits.
We hope this guide simplified your purchasing decision, but for more culinary inspiration, be sure to visit Le Creuset’s Cooking School, or our blog for tips and tricks on getting the most of your Le Creuset cookware. And if you’ve already purchased your Le Creuset Saucepan, here are eight delicate recipes perfect for it!