Over £250 for a Le Cruset casserole!! Beat alternative please!

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Can not believe the price of them now! Over £250!!!Last time I bought one was for £30 from a French supermarket. Cheaper options will surely do the same job, a cast iron pot is a cast iron pot. Any recommendations?

I have some Sainsbury’s. I really can’t tell the difference between them and my Le Creuset. Pro cook look okay to me, but I have never used them. Aldi and Lidl seem fine to me, too - but again, I haven’t used them.

We still use my grandmother's cast iron pot from... gasp... Soviet times. Circa 1950. We were gifted Le Cruset and it chipped within a few years.

Ditto. How they justify those prices for a pot that chips is beyond me. Who would pay that?

I have an Aldi one, bought years ago and still going strong. It'll outlive me.

The Times recently did a comparison, Robert Dyson 5/5. George 4/5, the George one is £29
Le Creuset: is it worth the money?

www.thetimes.com/article/c5b028a8-96d0-410c-8fe9-d445e761c49a?shareToken=15990e1586d10f6ec98e7fe0e1244a65

Staub. I have 2. Le Creuset is only marketing these days.

It must be just marketing as you used to be able to buy it reasonably priced in any supermarket in France amongst cheap glasses and crockery. My mum had a huge collection.

Thankyou that’s really helpful!😊

We have a Vancasso one (huge) which is excellent and was a fraction of the price of Le Creuset.

Procook

I have an Aldi one but the coating has chipped off the underside of the lid. It's about 4 years old.

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/9606766

We have this one