Staub Cast Iron 4-qt Round Cocotte with Glass Lid - Cherry

Great cocotte

Love it !! The brand said it all ! Beautiful and Chic !!

This was a great find. I shopped in retail "brick & morter" stores and then found this seller on Amazon. The pot looks likes its an original, good quality.

Good quality cookware is my weakness, and I have an extensive collection from a number of well known brands. I wanted to try a Staub Coccote, having already experienced the quality through owning a Staub Chistera, but I could never justify the price given I already owned a number of cast iron casseroles by the other French brand. When I saw the amazing price of this Coccote on Amazon however, I had to have it, and I wasn't disappointed. The Coccote arrived well packaged with no damage. I chose the glass lid both for price reasons and because I didn't own a similar model already. The cast iron base seems well made with no imperfections in the glaze that I could see. The textured black interior was flawless, and the sear I managed on my beef joint was far superior to that of the smooth cream interior of my other cast iron casserole. Staub seem to have hit upon the perfect design for their interiors. I have seen some complaints that the dark interior makes it difficult to judge browning, but I didn't experience this - perhaps in a dark kitchen, but in normal daylight conditions I found it no trouble. My only disappointment was the lid. I love the glass lid, in my opinion it actually looks better than the cast iron lid, but it has a strange design flaw which lets it down. Around the rim of the lid are small bumps which cause it to sit slightly proud of the casserole. These are obviously intentional as they don't look like manufacturing faults, they appear to be by design. Because of this, the lid doesn't seal as well as the cast iron lid, and so allows moisture to escape. While this isn't a huge problem for the roast been I made, there is enough of a gap that I could see it affecting crusty bread etc. However this was the only fault I could find, if it wasn't for this it would be the perfect cooking vessel.

I just received this enameled cast iron pot. It is small but not unusually small or too small, unless you need a very large pot.I always read the negative reviews before ordering anything and some are always just wrong if you know anything about the item being reviewed, but I pay attention to recurrent themes in these 1-star reviews. For this pot the recurrent themes were two. The first was that the pot is much smaller than expected, and that is just wrong. It isn’t that small and anyone buying this pot from Amazon should have a very good idea of the actual size by just doing a cursory review of the product description, or by reaffirming g other customers’ negative reviews.The second recurring complaint was that the pot arrived damaged, showing noticeable chips in the enamel coating, especially around the top rim of the pot. But, my pot arrived in close-enough-to-perfect condition. Maybe other customers’ pots were damaged in shipping but the pot is well packaged, so that would require very rough handing.The pot looks to be very durable and it looks to be easily cleaned, and, I would be truly shocked to learn that this pot is not a genuine French-made pot.It is beautiful and it will one day be passed down to one of my children and then eventually to one of my grand and great-grand children until someone eventually so mistreats it that it is no longer beautiful. Such is the life of heirloom kitchen cookeare.