Cooking with ceramics Emile Henry

Burgundy is a beautiful French region famous for the excellent wines grown on its mineral-rich limestone soil. This same soil, and the clay it produces, was used by Jacques Henry in the small ceramics workshop he founded in 1850 in Marcigny , in southern Burgundy.

Today, Emile Henry continues to produce pottery using the same clay in Marcigny. The company is world renowned as France's leading producer of ceramic kitchenware, but remains in the hands of the Henry family and follows a traditional manufacturing process that leaves its mark on all of its products.

In the video that I invite you to watch to learn more about how Emile Henry tools are made, you can see (right at the beginning) the sixth generation of Emile Henry. Jean-Baptiste Henry, a 34-year-old who currently gives the company an elegant and very close character . I have dealt with Jean-Baptiste on several occasions and he really is a cultured person, very capable and with very clear ideas about where he wants to take Emile Henry.

What did you think of the video? Beautiful. It shows the love that Emile Henry puts into all his creations and pieces. Sometimes we wonder what makes one recipe different from another when we use the same ingredients, the same cooking time, the same steps. With love and using truly authentic kitchen utensils, the best results are achieved. Emile Henry manages to unite tradition, quality and respect for cooking .

Each piece is handcrafted with the correct dimensions, the correct depth to perfectly cook and bake our recipes. In addition, the ceramic It gradually and evenly distributes heat, guaranteeing healthy and delicious cooking since the food does not suffer sudden changes in temperature, better preserving its flavors and nutritional properties .

Thanks to its unique manufacturing process, which involves firing at 1100ºC, Emile Henry ceramic cookware has a finish that is highly resistant to knocks and temperature changes in the kitchen . We can take an Emile Henry cookware from the freezer to our oven, preheated to 250ºC, or directly to the microwave. Its glaze is so hard that we can cut our preparations directly in an Emile Henry dish or saucepan .

Emile Henry has also developed a range of cocottes , casseroles and tagines called "Flame" with a thermo-diffusing base that can be used on any type of cooker: gas , electric, ceramic or even induction with the special Emile Henry disc . They are also lightweight, easy-to-handle utensils that can even be cleaned in the dishwasher.

I would also like to highlight the Emile Henry kitchen utensils such as the spoon rest , the salt shaker , the mortar and the oil cruet . They are beautiful pieces, very resistant and very functional. The Emile Henry mortar, with its rough interior finish, is one of the best mortars we have tried. The oil cruet, apart from being beautiful, has the great advantage of preserving all the flavour and properties of the oil as it prevents light from reaching it , one of the main enemies of oil.

And for my bakers... How could I forget the cake and pastry moulds! More than one of you reading this post already has one at home and I would like you to tell us about your experience. I love it when you send me your recipes! It is a pleasure and a huge pleasure to work with these utensils as they also cook our cakes perfectly since they maintain a perfect level of humidity unlike silicone or aluminium moulds .

Another of Emile Henry's characteristics is innovation and his interest in designing utensils that help us achieve perfect results in the kitchen . Emile Henry has specific utensils for making fondants, flans, tarte tatin, crème brûlée, caramel, soufflé or cooking homemade pizza. My eldest son always asks me for my famous 4 cheese pizza and you can't even imagine how it turns out! You can smell the Roquefort from here. Emile Henry's latest creation is a bell for baking bread in our own oven. This bell recreates the humidity conditions of a traditional oven so we will get perfect bread, soft on the inside and crispy on the outside .

For now, these are some of the benefits I wanted to tell you about Emile Henry's ceramics. If you have any questions, you can write to me below this post, on Facebook or Twitter @ClaudiaAndJulia