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Le Creuset Cast Iron Round Casserole, Teal, 28 Cm - Approx $140AU Delivered from Amazon.co.uk

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Great deal. Not a Xmas gift though as delivery is estimated at 1-2 months. Plenty of other Le Creuset deals on Amazon.co.uk though with products in stock, not many as amazing as this one though.

Price is 77.50GBP, minus VAT, plus shipping of around 20GBP (2-4 day shipping) blah blah blah. Works out to be around $140AU.

I ordered a couple of other Le Creuset things (30cm shallow casserole and a 30cm rectangular cast iron oven dish) and it came to 220quid delivered (around $350AU). That is close to the price for the 28cm casserole alone here in AU (Peters has it for $364). Delivery was only 25quid for all this because I selected 'group my items', but it looks like the latter two items will be shipped soon and the other will be late Dec / Early Jan.

Link to deal for shallow casserole:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000E3LKF2
Link to rectangular oven dish:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00005QFRW/ref=ox_sc_act_…

I am not going to look up the current best prices in Australia, you guys can do that if you want. Those who have shopped for Le Creuset before will know this is a steal.

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  • My maths says it's about 11cm tall
    pir^2 = pi(1.4)^2= 6.15dm^2 *1.1dm = 6.76dm^3 = 6.76L

    (1dm^3=1L where dm= decimetre or 10cm)

    • Not sure they are perfectly cylindrical. I think I saw them on another site and it said they are 5 inches tall. The Le Creuset site seems to be broken for me so I can't check this out though.

      • I reckon my current one is pretty close to a circle if not perfect.

        • I was more wondering about whether the radius was the same from top to bottom, but I appreciate the effort.

        • Ah, good point.. they definitely have slightly "slanted" sides… with the top being a wider diameter
          My maths fails!
          5" or about 12.5cm high sounds about right then

        • Give me the gradient of the side of the pot and i'll use calculus and rotation of solids around the y-axis to give you a perfect answer ;)

    • I love approximations.

  • +1

    yourhomedepot.com.au is generally the cheapest in Australia - they have these for $299 delivered.

    So $140 is bloody brilliant.

  • Could not find it on Australian websites other than http://www.kitchenwaredirect.com.au/Cookware/French-Oven-Coc…
    They charge $365, including a supposed 31% discount. So I reckon this price is good. Hope they package well, because cast-iron is able to break.

  • hmm….. dispatched in 1-2 months. So surface mail would add 2 months to that. If they send it by plane, the carbon produced by moving something this heavy is enough for 20 trees :)

    I had another look, and found that they also have a Chasseur 28cm. Slightly less volume, but otherwise equivalent I think. Also at 50% off (76GBP, ~$119aud+24 postage), but in stock for immediate dispatch and 1.5GBP cheaper: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chasseur-6-0ltr-Round-Black-Casserol…

    • +1

      Don't do it, get the Le Creuset, it is way superior IMHO.

    • The only shipping they offer for these is the 2-4 day express shipping.

      Chasseur is a cheaper brand (normally much cheaper), available locally for as low as $149 for the 28cm casserole (http://www.petersofkensington.com.au/Public/Le-Chasseur-Pist…) so not a very good deal. Plus, the one you linked to is not equivalent as it is matt black.

      • +1

        Thanks Bertprew, Robinsa. I was trying to work out if there is a difference. The link certainly helps. I also did not realise that the matt black was relevant. Will go for the Le Creuset.

        • Yeah, the matt black is incoated raw cast iron if I am not mistaken. Some people swear by it (like real chefs and that) but I reckon the enamel ones look easier to use (read: easier to clean).

  • +1

    Ordered the Casserole dish and oven pan, awesome, well spotted, cheers!

  • +2

    Delivery update:
    My estimated delivery from ordering yesterday is 1st-3rd December for the Oven Dish and Shallow Casserole and 23 Dec to 11th Jan for the round Casserole. Pretty good I think.

    I found the round casserole deal when I searched Le Creuset and filtered to amazon.co.uk as the seller. Then when I clicked on the link for the casserole at 131 pounds it came up as 77.50. I am not sure but I may have actually done a fist pump, I know I definitely said "Yesssssss" out loud, in an empty room… Might need to get out more.

    • :D

    • +4

      Some people working for the courier company are about to have a bad day lugging these things around…..

      • Plus all the beer I have ordered from Dan Murphy's lately…

      • Lets just hope the shipping estimate doesn't push out from 1-2 months due to the influx of orders!

        • Yeah, it might do. I am happy I am one of the first orders though. I noticed the oven dish I ordered is now a 1-2 month estimated shipping.

  • Awesome find!! Just ordered one. Most of the Le Creuset seems cheap.

    Thank you so much!

  • Excellent deal. We got the 26cm in red with the skillet for $279 a couple of weeks ago from Brand Smart and thought that was good, but this is better!

  • -2

    Check out the sales at Harris Scarfe. Bought these for around $60- on sale.

    • Are you sure? Exactly the same brand? Seems unlikely.

    • +2

      NOT the same brand, they sell "Tuff Cast" lol. Nothing wrong with that brand, but it ain't le creuset.

    • +6

      So the Aldi pot was made right there in the store? They have pot making departments? Not shipped from China?

      • +1

        Hahaha, Brilliant.

        I am sure have craftsmen sitting in a room out the back of each and every Aldi making these with iron sourced from a mine underneath the carpark. And that is how they can do it for $30.

      • +1

        Just to clarify: getting something shipped via air mail will cause about 20 times the CO2 emissions compared to sending the same item as sea freight.

        That causes a dilemma of course. Buying from Australian retailers who charge rip-off prices is not a solution that makes me feel better about buying this item.

        Guess I will just have to make do without.

        • +1

          How do you know whether the Australian retailer brought it in by air or sea?

        • @ greenpossum
          Well, you don't know for certain, but if it's brought into Australia in bulk, I would bet it's by sea freight. Air freight is just too expensive for something heavy and bulky as this.

        • -2

          HELLO!!!!!!!!

          Carbon is a fertiliser, not a pollutant. You are helping the third world when you emit carbon. Carbon emission should be subsidised, not taxed.

          Carbon is not the stuff you see being pumped out of smokestacks. Some of that stuff is pollutants, but carbon is not.

        • +2

          @voteoften, is that you Tony Abbott?

          Seriously, whatever you have been smoking is the real pollutant.

      • -4

        So you never buy anything made in China? Never ever? Made in France makes it worth 10 times more?

        The people I met really had the French one and the Aldi one and they were embarrassed to have paid so much for an identical item.

        But if you want to pay so much for one, that's your call. But I'd hardly call it a bargain.

        And why neg my comment? It's just an opinion based on facts.

        Of course 'you get what you pay for', so the concept of ozbargain.com.au is defunct.

        • +3

          There are forums elsewhere on this site and on others to discuss the merits of one brand vs another.

          My understanding of this bargain site is that it is about cheap deals on individual products for people who have decided what they want from other sites/advice from friends/reviews. At least that is how I approach it as it matches with my understanding of what constitutes a (oz)bargain. The reason for the negs of your comments is that they are irrelevant to whether this is a bargain or not.

          Seriously, the title of the deal was not "The best value cast iron cookware", it is a specific deal for a specific item.

    • +2

      I'm in Perth. Don't have Aldi.
      Blame the shops in Australia for overcharging. I'd buy locally if things weren't marked up so ridiculously. Cheaper for me to buy from UK and pay for having the 8 trees planted to carbon offset.

    • +2

      Alright then, hop on your push-bike (wouldn't want to drive surely) and head down to Aldi and get yourself one.

      While you are there, see if you can find a new keyboard with an exclamation mark that doesn't get stuck. I imagine Aldi have an instore keyboard maker, too.

      Goodness graceous (sic) me.

    • Air freight is more costly to the environment than sea freight but I would bet money that the factory in France has a much smaller climate impact per pot than the factory in China making the cheap pots. These pots last a lifetime as opposed to having to be replaced regularly (at further environmental cost).

      Just like with hybrid cars and their massive batteries, the environmental cost of manufacture is often forgotten or ignored by the consumer.

      • +1

        Don't be so harsh on the Chinese..
        Some of their cast iron has survived from the 4th Century BC - the Europeans were only introduced to it in the 14th Century AD ;-)

  • +1

    Can someone explain to me the merits of this posh French cookware? It's an enameled cast iron pot. Cast iron is good, but cast iron == cast iron. My enameled cast iron pot cost me like $15 from K-Mart, and has lasted years without any signs of wear.

    Do Le Creuset have magic cast iron, made by pixies and blessed with special cooking properties?

    Or are they simply charging for a brand name?

    • I think there's different grades of cast iron, with some being significantly more dense in iron, making them much heavier and having better heat distribution and retention (making them a better oven). I also think they last longer.

      But admittedly, I own some ultra-cheap cast-aluminium cookware (Dutch oven, wok, roasting pan) from Target which turned out better than their scanpan counterparts. Sometimes it's luck if it turns out to be good.

    • There are plenty of sources for comparisons on the internet. You have got a good one from K-Mart and are happy with it, that is great. I would think they are unlikely to all last as long as yours.

      Cast iron cookware can vary in all sorts of ways, even just a difference in thickness would make a big difference to how it performs.

      I think that it is worth spending more on certain thinks for the kitchen to get top quality. Knives being the most obvious, but pots like these are also worth it to a lot of people, especially at these prices.

      • @ bretprew

        "There are plenty of sources for comparisons on the internet."
        There probably are, but I don't seem to be able to find them easily, so I must be searching wrong ;-)
        So can you point me to some sites that compare different makes of cookware in a scientific and rational way?

        All I can find is sites that compare prices or sites that have individual end users waxing lyrical about how good particular brands make them feel (and most of whom haven't even tried other brands or have tried maybe one or two others).

        Thanks in anticipation :-)

        • +1

          This is just a cursory 5 mins Google search:

          http://marketplace.apartmenttherapy.com/features/how-to-shop…

          As someone who has owned a lot of cheap cast-iron pots and now owns a lot of Staub, I can vouch for the biggest difference being thickness of metal and firing techniques - this has the effect of cooking with even heat distribution and gives them a high durability factor - they are also much less likely to crack than the cheap ones when dropped or exposed to extreme temperature differences.

        • Thanks tycho,

          I found that and a few other sites that explain a few things and offer some opinions, but I am amazed and disappointed that I can't easily find a site where a trusted third party organisation has actually tested the claims of "better heat distribution" or "less likely to crack or chip" or "superior ability to handle temperature changes" and many of the other claims individual end users tend to make (including here)…

          It doesn't seem like it would be THAT hard to use thermometers to test heat distribution, impact tests to measure how sturdy a pot is, and hot/cold tests to check temperature stability - this sort of thing is done all the time with electronics and computers items and can be readily found when comparing and researching them - Eg; Monitor tests where they look at light variance over the screen, etc.

          I am entirely sure some products ARE better than others, but I am also a bit suspicious that some claims have never been tested and people just assume something is better because it is more expensive - I personally have had a bad experience with Scanpan products despite claims that they were superior to "basic" cookware :-(

          Anyway, if anybody reading this can point me to a site that rigorously compares and tests claims I would REALLY appreciate it :-)

        • @ozdave

          I would suggest that the large numbers of people who can vouch for the quality of Le Creuset cookware should not be dismissed. As you would know, people who have a bad experience are much more likely to complain online and there seem to be very few of these people.

          While the opinions of the general public may be less scientific, they work on a much greater sample size than an experiment like you are suggesting would. The best way to test real world reliability is to have hundreds of thousands of real people use your product for many years. Not to buy one of each brand and hit them with a hammer until they break.

          As you will know from websites testing computer and electronic equipment, reliability is almost never mentioned and if it is, it is based on user reports. I bought a P67 motherboard earlier this year based on good online reviews, only to find that it had reliability problems in the chipset which ended in me having to get a replacement down the track once the issues had been rectified. Years of consumer reviews would have saved me this inconvenience.

          Also, testing one example of a product is not always a reliable judge of overall quality. The example you give (monitor light variance) is one where there is often variability from one monitor to the next so a test of an individual monitor is merely a guide or estimate of that trait over a particular model.

          To your previous point, I was looking into these things a while ago but couldn't bring myself to pay $300+ for a pot. I saw a number of comparisons on different sites but none of them would meet your criteria for a rigorous scientific comparison. They also were mostly in America and so they tested against a number of brands we don't get here and didn't test the ones we do.

          As we await the website with scientific data on the value of all things (what is the units that value is measured in?), I have taken an educated guess that the pots I have ordered at these prices will be worth the money to me. You pays your money and you takes your chances :)

        • Thanks bretprew,

          I wasn't trying to dismiss the usefulness of user experience in gauging "quality" or "real world reliability" - but I wasn't really trying to address that in my post - to be fair MOST cast iron is going to be reliable; be it cheap OR expensive. There are plenty of cases of people using the same cast iron their Great Grandparents used and it isn't all expensive stuff :-)

          There are SOME people who have a bad experience with Le Creuset too;
          If you search for "Le Creuset" you get 13,900,000 results
          but if you search for "Le Creuset problems" you get 44,200,000 results

          I wish electronic gear was THAT reliable too LOL
          You say that "Years of consumer reviews would have saved me this inconvenience" when referring to the P67 chipset problems but of course that was not really an option at the time you say you purchased because the product hadn't been around that long and if you waited years for positive reviews of electronics/computer gear it would mostly be hopelessly out of date ;-)

          I thought what I was getting at was clear (but perhaps it wasn't), and is something that could easily be measured with a NUMBER of samples of each product - Take, for example, claims that some products heat more evenly than others - this is not really a "reliability" issue but it IS a quality that could be quantified quite easily by measuring temperature spread - and "the units that value is measured in" are degrees Celsius ;-)

          I guess I might have to be like the two New Zealand schoolgirls that humbled one of the world's biggest food and drugs companies back in 2004 after their school science experiment found that their ready-to-drink Ribena contained almost no trace of vitamin C :p
          Up until that point, people just accepted the claims the company made as truth !!!
          They were actually trying to prove that cheap fruit drinks were inferior but came to a different finding LOL
          http://www.news.com.au/top-stories/ribena-maker-fined-over-f…
          (BTW I am not saying the claims made about expensive cookware are wrong, just that I haven't seen any thorough tests to confirm those claims)

          I might have to get off my lazy backside and do what they did and test the claims MYSELF ;-)
          I would happily do a temperature test… but is anyone willing to donate samples for me to do a chip and/or drop test? LOL

          I hope your educated guess pays off and you enjoy your cookware :-)

        • +1

          I think you are probably right, most cast-iron cookware is no doubt fairly similar. As in a lot of areas (computers and electronics being classic ones), there is very often diminishing returns as you increase the money spent on a particular product. I think we all make decisions as to where we fit along that spectrum, along with a weighting for how important the product is to us, etc.

          I think you have found one of the reasons a proper test of these products has not been carried out. Finding someone to donate pots for a durability test might not be an easy task:)

          I remember the storm the Ribena thing caused. It was pretty funny I thought (as I am not a Ribena drinker). Although buying some bottles of Ribena for your kid's project is one thing, when they ask for half a dozen cast iron pots to test I think most parents push them to instead make the science fair classics, the papier-mache volcano or the polystyrene solar system instead :)

    • I'm sure there is a healthy portion of Brand Name profit in the price, but there is obviously a quality difference between Le Creuset and Le Chasseur (which is a direct rip), you only have to see them side by side to pick the better quality version.
      I can't comment on your KMart version, but I'm guessing the enamel is thicker/better quality and the cast iron is thicker/better quality. not to mention the handle
      And at this price, you're not even paying extra for the name over the La Chasseur equivalent!

      These pots will last a lifetime (unless you drop them at the wrong angle and are having a Bad day) and they're a pleasure to use.

      • +1

        As someone who doesn't enjoy cooking, I don't think I will ever understand how you derive pleasure from using a particular pot haha

        • +5

          Maybe you don't enjoy cooking cause you have shitty pots and shitty knives.

          Can't say I truly ENJOY cooking, but I do love the end result and if the preparation part is made easier by the tools you use, then it's more enjoyable than it otherwise would be.

          Same concept as buying a cheap, Chinese drill bit vs a brand name US/Europe/Australian one… Both will get the job done (eventually) but the quality tool will do it easier and better and you are less likely to get frustrated doing the job.

        • +1

          I certainly agree with scubacoles on this. Certain items in the kitchen are worth spending more cash on.

        • +1

          Agree with Scubacoles. Also, enjoyment in cooking goes up if you dishes turn out well. For some dishes (many, in fact) you do not get a good result if you pan is not thick enough.

        • haha I fully understand the concept. I was speaking very specifically about the pot. We have great knives, but cooking has always been a necessity to me, and I have absolutely no interest in it.

  • Ive found this place has pretty good prices, $20 capped delivery to Oz as well.

    http://bit.ly/sgy6JZ

    Make sure you shop as a US customer. They charge more if you shop as an Australian.

    The Le Creuset sets seem to be awesome value.

  • -1

    I'm pretty sure aldi has had the same things for significantly less (like $30-$50), the one striking feature is the plastic lid handle which is what put me off the aldi ones. Maybe brand isn't the same.

    • +4

      "Same things"?

      Pop into your local Porsche dealer and tell them the Daihatsu dealer up the road has the "same things" much cheaper.

      • dude it's a cast iron pot, not a car, what can possibly be different, apart from carbon content in the iron.

        • Dude, I think I read somewhere that the Aldi ones had plastic lid handles.

        • So does the pic you put up.

        • Clearly the apparent simplicity of the product means that anyone can make a good one. I used to believe this too. For example, I recently thought cheap baking paper would be the same as a known brand. I was wrong as the cheap stuff turned out to be unusable. I would have thought baking paper was fairly simple to make too but there you go.

          I have learned that lesson a number of times in the kitchen with cheap pots, kitchen scissors and other tools. I am no longer willing to take a risk with cheap stuff and get halfway through making something only to have a malfunction ruin my meal.

          Obviously, if you own the Aldi one and it works for you then great. If you saw one in Aldi once and would like to give advice to everyone based only on this 'knowledge' then not so great.

        • -1

          nah i have some pretty old one without any plastic on it what so ever, like i said, didn't like the aldi one because of that plastic handle, my one is a recessed handle which is cast in, so it not matter. Not sure where it's from, nor do i care.

          In any case you need to take a chill pill, trolls would have a ball with you, since you get really riled up as soon as anyone says anything that isn't glowing in praise. I didn't neg the thing, because ultimately i don't care, and i certainly didn't insult you at all, so i have no idea why you are so defensive, it's like as if you are personally selling it.

        • Great. I am glad you have one that you like. There are replacement steel handles available for those who want them. I guess the plastic ones stay a bit cooler but don't tolerate higher heats as well.

          Each time I have put a deal up on here there have been posts related to 'alternative' products that are cheaper. Someone who already owns one, and is not in the market for a new one, could only be commenting from under a bridge also :) We all have a little bit of troll in us I guess (wait, that didn't come out right).

  • The shallow casserole is coming up as 97.30GBP for me, not the 77GBP?

    • +1

      Sorry, yeah. I guess I wasn't clear in my description. The shallow casserole is 97GBP, the 28cm round is 77 and the oven tray is 51. They all have VAT removed at the end which makes them cheaper than that.

      I would suggest going to checkout (just before committing to order) and it will show you the total.

  • +4

    It has been a while since I posted a deal and now I am beginning to remember why. My last one had people suggesting open source software = Adobe Creative suites. This one has people suggesting Aldi pot = Le Creuset. The next one I post, I don't think I will look at any of the comments.

    This is a great deal for people who want Le Creuset pots. I, for one, saved at least a couple of hundred bucks.

    For those that don't, move on, there is nothing to see here. I am sure there will be another 5 Logitechshop and Green Man Gaming sales by the end of the day, they might be more what you are after.

    • +3

      I wouldn't worry too much. I'm pretty sure that anyone who has ever taken an interest in owning one of these will be infinitely greatfull to you (or as long as their pot lasts).

      From the sounds of it, the ones complaining are the ones that have never looked at these previously.

  • +1

    I have fashioned a bowl out of magical mud that I believe is superior to this Creuset pot. I bought this magic mud from a fantastical troll living under a bridge, cleverly disguised as a crazy homeless person. The mud cost me only $12.70 - he tried to charge $2 million dollars but once I made it clear I had only $12.70 he was happy to accept that - bridge trolls are stupid, amirite?

    Anyway, after I removed the twigs and some of the rocks, I cleverly formed the mud around the top of a pole with a rounded end. I let this dry in the sun for three days and carefully removed it.

    I've yet to cook anything in it and I've never heard of Creuset, but the thing's made of magic troll mud so I'm pretty sure it's better and was much better value.

    Neg. Oh crap, I hit the wrong button!

    • +1

      I think you are being very disrespectful to Trolls. Some of my best friends are Trolls.

  • +2

    Thank you OP, great bargain! I have always wanted one of these and never see them cheap enough.

    • Glad I could get this deal to people who are interested.

  • +1

    Genuine bargain, well done and thankyou!

    • Glad I could get this deal to people who are interested.

  • +1

    This is a sensational deal, my wife was very happy. Managed to package it up with some other items I have been meaning to get. Thanks for posting!!!

  • Something we can all agree on; it is getting very difficult to buy anything from a regular 'shop' knowing that it is probably much cheaper on Amazon. I hate when I have no reception to do a quick Amazon price check in store before a purchase!

  • Very good deal!! too bad I own too many branded pots otherwise I'd get this in a heartbeat!!

  • +1

    Hi

    I tried to order but it won't deliver to my OZ address. Did anyone encounter the same problem? During check out, when it asked for the delivery address, I just keyed in the OZ address and the next screen that shows up is an error message. I also wrote an email to Amazon UK but the reply they gave was that home and garden items are shipped to some limited countries and Australia is not on the list.

    bretprew-how did you make your order?

    • Works fine for me sending to 4152. Are you rural? I'm not sure if Amazon distinguishes between rural and suburban addresses, but it's just a thought.

    • Have you checked that the one in your cart is shipped from amazon.co.uk? There are other sellers on amazon who don't ship to Australia so you may have added to your cart from one of these.

      • Thanks all. I think there was something wrong with the website yesterday. I tried today and it was ok. Haven't place my final orders yet..still thinking whether the 28cm will be too big or not..any of you know if a 26cm can fit like a whole chicken in it?

        • They also have oval shaped pots that are probably better suited for chickens if that is what you want to use the pot for.

          Otherwise, I would have thought 'too big' is less of a problem than too small if you are wanting to cook a whole chicken in it.

  • I can order and deliver to Melbourne without problem

  • I want to cook…

  • Thank you so much for listing this, just saved $150 and got an extra casserole dish to boot, awesome!

    • Cool. I saved about $40 and got an oven dish and a low casserole to boot :)

  • Great find. Scored some absolute bargains. Thanks!

  • +1

    I've been mulling over this dish for the last few days and finally decided it was an excellent deal that could not be passed up. Ignore the ignoramuses - I very much appreciate you posting this deal. Thanks, bretprew! :D

  • My item has now been cancelled,Amazon has informed me that this item is no longer available.
    Anyone got a same E-mail?

    • No, mine was delivered last week. Sorry to hear that.

    • Weird.

      Mine shipped last night.

  • Received mine yesterday! Awesome bargain.

    • received 2 of 4 today!

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