Le Creuset Cassis

Pots and Pans have taken delivery of the latest cookware from our most popular brand: Le Creuset Cassis. Juicy ripe berry shades look so tempting in any recipe - it’s little wonder Le Creuset created Cassis! From vibrant plums to vivid violets, purple shades create a warm, sumptuous look and feel in the home. Le Creuset Cassis brings to the kitchen a deep delicious purple that will appeal to those wanting to make a bold style statement. The Cassis Cast Iron collection includes round casseroles, oval casseroles and shallow casseroles, plus a square grillit. The Cassis Stoneware collection features rectangular dishes, fluted flan, pie dish, a pair of ramekins, petite casserole, utensil jar and mug.

Le Creuset and Global Knives Special Offers

We have added new special offers on Le Creuset Kone Kettles and a Global Knives Knife Set to our cookware and kitchenware winter sale. Now when you buy a Black Le Creuset Kone Kettle you will also receive a free a Le Creuset Breakfast Collection Mug. If you buy the Global G-666/KB: 7 Piece Kitchen Knife Gift Case Set you will receive a free MinoSharp Knife Sharpener.

As part of our winter sale we have already discounted Le Creuset Kone Kettles by a staggering 20%. We are now selling all colours of the Kone Kettle for £39.20, this is instead of the normal recommended retail price of £49.00. Now, if you buy the Kone Kettle in black we will also give you a free Le Creuset Breakfast Collection Mug.

The second of the new Special Deals that we are now offering is to give everyone who buys a Global G-666/KB: 7 Piece Gift Case Set a free MinoSharp Knife Sharpener. We have also reduced the price of this Knife Set, it is currently available to buy on our website for £450, that is £112 below its normal recommended retail price.

The Knife set consists of seven individual Global knives, containing the following knives:

• G-2, 20cm cook's knife
• G-4, 18cm oriental cook's knife
• G-21, 16cm boning knife
• GS-5, 14cm vegetable chopper
• GS-9, 8cm tomato knife
• GS-11, 15cm flexible utility knife
• GSF-15, 8cm forged peeling knife

It also comes with a quality presentation case which features the branding specially designed to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Global Knives. The MinoSharp Knife Sharpener was designed specifically for using with Global Knives.

If you visit the Winter Sale page of our website you will find details about the other deals that are currently on offer. These include special offers on an I.O. Shen Knife Set, a Denby Dining Set and a Alessi Kettle. There is also a wide range of other items that have been reduced as part of our cookware and kitchenware winter sale. You might also be interested in our Pan Sets Special Offers or Knife Sets Special Offers pages, both of which contain some fantastic bargains.

There is still time to enter our New Year Prize Draw, you have until midday on the 1st of February to get your entry in. Remember that this month one lucky person will win a Gaggia Classic Espresso Machine, a 5 Hard Anodized Piece Pan set by Circulon 2 and a Judge Sabatier 5 Piece Wooden Knife Block Set. These three items combined are worth £568.95. If you fancy trying your luck you should visit the competition page on our website.

Win a Gaggia Classic Coffee Machine, Circulon Pan Set and a Judge Knife Set...

To help get the New Year off to a good start we thought that we would go out of our way to do something extra special for our first monthly free prize draw of 2010. We have decided to give away not one but three prizes this month. The lucky person who wins this month’s competition will receive a Gaggia Classic Espresso Machine, a 5 Piece Pan Set from the best selling Circulon 2 range as well as a Judge Sabatier 5 Piece Wooden Knife Block Set. Combined these three items have a recommended retail price of £568.95.

The rules are the same as normal, all you have do is visit the competition page of our website and fill in the form contained on that page. You can also find out more information about the rules of the competition on the page, all you need to do is follow the relevant link.

You have until midday on the 1st of February to enter this month’s competition. Remember, the competition is free to enter.

If you have not visited our website recently then why not take a look at our Winter Cookware Sale while you are there? We have worked hard on this year’s sale, ensuring that it is the right mixture of exciting special offers and desirable bargains on the products that you want. You will find big discounts on top brands such as Le Creuset, Global Knives, Jamie Oliver Professional Series, Cole and Mason, Denby Pottery, I.O Shen Knives and Maxwell & Williams.

Winter Clearance Deals

The Pots and Pans Winter Sale has started. We have put together a collection of great deals and bargains on a wide range of cookware and kitchenware, all available on our online store. When deciding what we products we would in our sale, we kept thinking we wanted to do something a little bit different this time. We've decided that not only will we discount products, but we will also put together a series of special offers designed to excite our customers. What better way of doing this than giving away free gifts or discount offers on some of our best selling items?

Now, if you buy an I.O. Shen Mastergrade 5 Piece Magnetic Knife Block Set we will also give you a FREE Swift Supreme 3 Piece Pan Set, RRP £118! If you buy a Meyer Circulon 2 Hard Anodized 5 Piece Pan Set you get the opportunity to buy a Le Creuset Kone Kettle at HALF PRICE. If you decide to buy a Gaggia Classic Coffee Machine you will get a Judge Sabatier 5 Piece Wooden Knife Block Set FREE. The Judge Knife Set has a recommended retail price of £64. If you buy a Robert Welch Signature 4 Piece Knife and Sharpener Set you will also get a FREE Le Creuset 21cm Round Dish. This Le Creuset dish has an RRP of £22.

As well as these exciting deals we are also reducing the price on numerous other products. We have collected together a wide selection of these items on the Sales page of our website. You will also find other great deals on the Pan Sets Special Offers page as well as on the Knife Sets Special Offers page of the Pots and Pans website.

We believe that there should be a bargain or a special deal to suit everybody in cookware and kitchenware winter sale.

New Alessi, Le Creuset and Ready Steady Cook products added

We are continually adding new products to the Pots and Pans online cookware shop, amongst the latest additions are new products from Le Creuset and Alessi, as well as pan sets from the new Ready Steady Cook branded cookware range.

Le Creuset has always been one of our most popular brands. It is not just their iconic cast iron cookware that is popular with our customers, other ranges such as the Toughened Non-Stick and the re-released 3 Ply Stainless Steel range are also among our best selling ranges. We have recently added several new products from the Le Creuset Toughened Non-Stick range to our online store.

Alessi, as with Le Creuset, is another brand that has achieved iconic status. Their products are famous for their unique and often playful designs. Amongst the new Alessi products we have started to sell is the new Banana King Salt, Pepper and Spice Grinder, featured in the picture. Despite appearances, it is a fully functioning grinder!

You will have seen the television programme, and now you can buy Ready Steady Cook cookware products. We have started stocking Ready Steady Cook branded pan sets on our website, ideal for rustling up a meal after inspiration from an episode of the show.

To see any of these new products you should visit the Pots and Pans website. It is definitely worth checking the website on a regular basis to keep up with all the new additions that we are continually making as well as any sales or special offers that might be available.

Wusthof Knives benefit from appearing in Julie & Julia

We have seen an increase in both the number of sales as well as the interest in Wusthof Knives over the past couple of months. Wusthof Knives are always one of our better selling brands. If you have ever owned or even used a Wusthof Knife you will understand why they are so popular, they are one of the best knives on the market. They are exceedingly well constructed which is one of the reasons that they are such a popular choice with both professional chefs and cooking enthusiasts. What we were seeing was a spike in activity on the Wusthof Knives pages of our website, though we were at a loss to explain it! We had seen this with another product recently, the reason for the increased interest in that case was a leading magazine had published a very complimentary review of that product and very kindly linked through to our website in their article. In this instance we could not find any new links or even news about Wusthof Knives on the internet...

Then we took a telephone order from a customer for a Wusthof Knife Block Set - while placing their order they asked if they were used in the film Julie & Julia? This film has already generated an incredible increase in the sales of Le Creuset products, which feature extensively throughout the film, and the same appears to be the case for Wusthof Knives - if only the marketing people from Wusthof had been as on the ball as Le Creuset! Both companies have received tremendous benefits from having their products featured in this film, and as cookware retailers, we've definitely seen an increase in sales.

60 Minute Makeover features Pots and Pans

Various products from our online cookware store have been used in the new series of 60 Minute Makeover. Our products are featured in several episodes of the new series which started on ITV on the 7th of September.

The first episode of the new series that used products from Pots and Pans involved designers Colin and Justin transforming a house in Carshalton, Surrey. The details of this episode of 60 Minute Makeover as well as a list of the products that were used are available on the shows section of the ITV website. It was gratifying to see that several of the 60 Minute Makeover designers choose to use our products. In another episode Scott Waldron makes over a house in Great Moor, Stockport he used a wide selection of products that are available on our online cookware store.

It was interesting to note that the different interior designers would often choose to use the same products. Le Creuset, Denby Pottery, Raymond Blanc Cookware by Anolon and Alessi were popular with several of the designers on the show, they all feature in several episodes of the new series. Another product that was used on several different makeovers was the Voodoo Knife Block. If you watch the programme carefully you will notice this appearing in several different episodes. It has obviously proved to be popular with the interior designers who work for this programme.

You can view how our products that we supplied to 60 Minute Makeover fitted in to the overall makeover on a dedicated 60 Minute Makeover page on our website.

Le Creuset 3-Ply Stainless Steel and new Magimix Nespresso coffee machines added to the website

The latest additions to our online cookware shop include the new Le Creuset 3-Ply Stainless Steel cookware range as well as the new Magimix Nespresso coffee machines.

Le Creuset has always been one of the most popular and definitely one of our top selling brands. We expect to find that the new Le Creuset 3-Ply Stainless Steel range will be as popular as the existing ranges from this world renowned cookware manufacturer. Although they are best known for their cast iron cookware range the new 3-Ply range is made from a mixture of high grade stainless steel combined with a dash of aluminium. The pans have an aluminium core which ensures that heat is spread evenly across the pan which eliminates hotspots. The pans in the new Le Creuset 3-Ply range are suitable for use on gas and electric hobs as well as induction hobs. All the stainless steel products in this new range come with a life time guarantee, the non-stick coated products in the range have a 10 year guarantee.

We have also started to sell the new range of Magimix Nespresso coffee makers. All of the new coffee machines have been produced to use Nespresso Grands Crus capsules. There are currently 16 different flavours of coffee available in the Grands Cru range. We use one of these machines in our office so we can agree that they do as they claim make the perfect espresso every time.

These are not the last of the new ranges that we will be adding to the Pots and Pans website, we will continue to keep you informed when we add new ranges or expand our existing ranges.

Hollywood gives Le Creuset free advertising

In the USA the success of the film Julie & Julia has seen a dramatic increase in the sales of Le Creuset cast iron cookware. Le Creuset features extensively in the cookery sequences of the film that is based on the book Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child, written in 1961. The film tells the story of two woman, these are the Julie and Julia of the title. Meryl Streep plays the role of Julia Child, the author of Mastering the Art of French Cooking while Amy Andrews plays Julie Powell who attempts to cook all the 524 recipes that are contained in the book.

In the film both women when cooking use Le Creuset pots exclusively. This product placement has lead to a major increase in the sales of Le Creuset products in the US. The success of the film has also given the sales of both the book and French cookery classes a major lift.

Many retailers are already re-branding Le Creuset as the Julie & Julia cookware. Advertising from Le Creuset features pictures of the woman using their products in the film. Competitions offer people the opportunity to win tickets for the film or merchandise associated with the film along with the Le Creuset products that feature in the film.

Le Creuset, as a brand has always been one of our best sellers and we expect that this free advertising will make it even more popular. The film is scheduled to be released in the UK on the 11th of September. The products that feature in the film are from the new Le Creuset Stainless Steel range as well as the cerise casserole dish.

Spend £40 or over and get a FREE gift...

At present if you spend £40 or over on an order you can claim a free Le Creuset Cerise Silicone Spatula, which is worth £4.40. If you spend £75 or over you can claim a free Natural Origins 8 Bottle Wine Rack. This normally retails at £15.

Instructions for how to claim your free gift are on the website. This offer is available while stocks last. It is limited to one free gift per order.

Don't forget that there is free delivery on orders of £50 or over.
*Equivalent discount for areas outside of Great Britain.

Win an electric drinks cooler in this month’s competition

After the large volume of entries that we had for last months prize draw, the prize was a Le Creuset Casserole Dish so I guess we should not have been surprised by the enormous response we received, we have decided to have two winners this month. This month two lucky people have the chance to win a Halifax Portable Drinks Cooler, this normally retails for £44.95.

The Halifax Cooler is capable of chilling two 75cl bottles or up to 6 cans or bottles at a time. It can chill a bottle from room temperature to 10C in just 5 minutes and only 3 minutes to do the same to cans or bottles. It is fully portable, there is no need to have it connected to the electricity supply, this means you can enjoy using it while out in the garden.

When we were discussing what we would offer as a prize this month the drinks cooler quickly established itself as the obvious choice. What better way is there to enjoy the current heat wave that with some chilled drinks? With Wimbledon fortnight starting could it be any more seasonal? While on the subject of Wimbledon in the office we were discussing if this could be the year that Andy Murray will wins the men’s title. He is a ‘local lad’ for us, coming originally from Dunblane which is not far from the Pots and Pans offices.

For more details or to enter this month prize draw you should visit the competition page on our website.

The St Andrews shop window displays nominated for award.

The colourful window displays of the Pots and Pans shop in St Andrews have been nominated for an award in this years Excellence in Housewares Awards. They have been nominated in the Excellence in Retail Display - Independent category.

Anybody who has seen the window displays in the St Andrews shop will realise that the staff there always put a great deal of time and effort into creating their window displays, always ensuring that they entertain the local shoppers.

Recent displays have included themes based on National Honey Week and National Vegetarian Week. You can see from the picture of the display for National Honey week just how much work goes into each of the window displays.

This display was a promotion for the for the Le Creuset cookware range.

It would appear that shoppers have as much fun with the window displays as the staff have creating them. The feedback that the staff receives concerning the window displays is always positive, some shoppers even suggest themes for future window displays. The displays definitely help brighten up Church Street.

Being nominated for The Excellence in Housewares Awards is excellent recognition for the work that goes into each display. These awards are the most prestigious awards in the housewares industry. This year the award ceremony is being held on October 7th at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London. Good luck to the St Andrews shop staff that night, we will all be keeping our fingers crossed for them.

Welcome to the Pots and Pans Blog

Pots and Pans are both the largest and the best value discount online cookshop in the UK. We currently sell over 4000 products on our online shop. Our extensive range of products includes a wide selection of cookware, kitchen knives, knife sets, coffee machines, espresso makers, toasters, kettles, tableware, cutlery, dining accessories, utensils, barware, electrical kitchen appliances as well as many other household accessories.

We stock a wide selection of brands, to many to mention individually but some of the brands that we stock include Jamie Oliver, Aga Cookware, Alessi, Tefal, Le Creuset, Denby, Gaggia, Global, Dualit, Magimix, James Martin, Nigella Lawson, Peugeot, Circulon, Jura, Stellar, Dunoon, Maxwell & Williams, Guzzini, Typhoon, Bialetti and Salter.

As well as providing fast delivery and friendly service we also offer massive savings on high street savings. The products that you find our website are offered directly to you with significant savings on the recommended price. If you do happen to find any of the products available for cheaper elsewhere then let us know and we will try to match that price.

This blog will give us a chance to let you know all about our latest special offers as well as letting you know about new ranges before they are added to our online shop. We may even add the odd recipe, if we have the chance and if we remember. Some of our customers have passed on handy tips and tricks to us, the best of these we will pass on using this blog. So if you check back on a regular basis there should be something of interest to you. If there is anything that you would like to see included on the blog let us know and we will try our best to include it if at all possible.