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Since 1851: the Dutch way with cookware
Dutch Cookware is a cookware workshop in the Dutch tradition: steel under the surface, enamel on top, and a weakness for pieces that are meant to be repaired, not replaced.
What became a cookware company started as a small metal workshop in the Netherlands in 1851, making milk churns, pots and pans from beaten steel. The country around it was practical, thrifty and stubborn, and the cookware took after the people. Coat the steel with glass-like enamel and you solve rust, sticking and metallic aftertastes in one move. That idea, born in the workshop, is the direct ancestor of the modern Dutch oven.
Dutch by birth, cookware by trade - since 1851
- 1851
A workshop opens
A small Dutch metalworks begins making milk churns, pots and pans from beaten steel. Sturdy goods for kitchens that cooked every day and repaired what they owned.
- The enamel years
A glass coat on steel
The next generation tries something new: a protective enamel layer brushed onto steel. The pan stops rusting and stops reacting to food. That one change is the ancestor of every modern Dutch oven.
- The first Dutch oven
The pot that stuck
The workshop shapes its first deep, lidded cooking pot. Households adopt it, other kitchens copy it, and it quietly becomes the shape we now call the Dutch oven.
- 1951
The Royal Predicate
For a hundred years of national importance, the company receives the Royal Predicate, awarded only to firms highly prominent in their field. The badge changed the stationery, not the work.
- Today
GlazeGuard and a steel core
The enamel became GlazeGuard, fused to a carbon steel body, dishwasher safe and tested against chips. The idea is exactly the one from the enamel years: a pot that stays in the family longer than most of the furniture.
The Royal Predicate, and what it still means
In 1951, a century of national importance earned the workshop the Royal Predicate, a distinction awarded only to companies deemed highly prominent in their field and in business for at least a hundred years. A royal badge is easy to print on a box. Keeping up with it is the work: every pot still leaves the workshop only after it survives the same abuse tests it did fifty years ago.
What we make today
The range is deliberately small: the Dutch Oven in four sizes, a braiser, a wok, a skillet and a frypan, plus the sets that combine them. GlazeGuard enamel fuses to a carbon steel body that heats faster than cast iron and weighs less. Everything is oven safe to 450 °F, dishwasher friendly and covered by a limited lifetime warranty against manufacturing defects. Nothing in the range needs seasoning, ever.
Offices
Enameled Dutch ovens and cookware sets from a Dutch workshop, made since 1851. Non-stick without seasoning, dishwasher safe, and built for decades of dinners.
Europe
Antoon Catriestraat 12
9031 Drongen, Ghent, Belgium
USA
94 North Broadway
Irvington, NY 10533
Pick your size. Check the price.
Four sizes from 2.6 to 7 QT, four glazes, one long line of dinners. See live pricing and choose the pot that fits your table.