About Free Approach
🇫🇷 Approche Libre® is a French brand that offers durable and robust equipment for autonomous cauldron cooking.
Approche Libre® — the spirit of a brand
Approche
It's the idea of moving towards, of striving...
An "approche" (approach) is a movement, a journey, a unique way of discovering and meeting oneself.
Libre
It's the freedom to explore, to choose, to invent your own path.
"Libre" (free) evokes creation without constraint, independent thought, and adaptability. It's about experimenting, trying, without fear of making mistakes...
Nature • Cauldron • Autonomy
Approche Libre®, is an invitation to live freely, slow down, look further, and reconnect with essential gestures—through fire, authentic cooking, and exploration.
Exploring nature
A world of bivouacs and nomadic cauldron cooking. Living simply outdoors to gather around a fire.
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Equipping for autonomy
Simple and essential tools for those who forge their own path.
🇫🇷 Our creations are designed and developed in Nice with our design & graphics teams, then field-tested under real conditions.
All your orders are shipped quickly from our warehouses located in Réau, in Île-de-France.
We want to restore cauldron cooking to its rightful place and also offer our selection of durable equipment to help you get started right away
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Our cast iron cauldrons
We select robust three-legged cast iron cauldrons suitable for cooking over a wood fire.
Cast iron allows for even heat distribution, ideal for slow and controlled cooking.
Each cauldron is already seasoned, ready to use upon receipt.
Compliant with European food contact standards, they guarantee safe and reliable use.
Their simple and solid design ensures stability, durability, and ease of use.
✔ Already seasoned, ready to use
✔ 6 Liters: ideal for 2 to 4 people
✔ Compliant with European food contact standards
→ Our guide to choosing the right cauldron
→ Complete guide to maintaining your cast iron cauldron
→ How to manage the fire for slow and controlled cooking
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Cooking to turn back time
Our wooden engraved recipe boxes
We have designed wooden engraved recipe boxes inspired by Gallic feasts, medieval tables, or popular French cuisine of the 1930s — to rediscover the diversity and richness of cauldron cooking.
These recipes are the result of reconstructive work based on available archaeological and historical knowledge, aiming to get as close as possible to the eating habits of the three periods mentioned, as history and science reveal them today.
WILD BOAR STEW WITH LENTILS, RED WINE & DRIED BLUEBERRIES / Medieval cuisine
One fire. Three eras. A thousand ways to live freely...
→ Traditional cauldron: How did the Gauls cook?
→ Cauldron cooking: How did Europeans cook in the Middle Ages?
→ Cast iron cauldron: Traditional and family French cuisine of the 1930s
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Our blend of Gallic aromatics
We have also recreated a blend of aromatics: Le Souffle de Cernunnos.
This blend was specially designed, in collaboration with the Herboristerie du Vieux Nice, to adapt to cauldron cooking—that is, to dishes simmered over a wood fire.
Our blend of Gallic aromatics is made up of seeds, plants, flowers, and berries historically present in the territory of Gaul before Romanization.
The chosen species are attested by paleobotany and by the current natural distribution of native European taxa.
→ What herbs were used in Gallic cauldron cooking?
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Fire kit - Approche Libre
Ferrocerium rod and robust striker.
Get what you need to start a fire in difficult conditions... or simply to cook in a cauldron with your family
→ How to light a fire with a ferrocerium rod (practical guide)
→ Making fire in the rain: the effective bushcraft method
An ethical and local partnership
🇫🇷 We make it a point of honor to collaborate with local partners who share our high standards of quality and our commitment to human values.
Among them, l'Herboristerie du Vieux Nice, known for the quality and diversity of its plants, and l'Imprimerie Robert, founded in 1893, who supports us with rigor and benevolence in the creation of our visuals and the adjustment of our layouts.
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All the information you need to get started — even without experience.
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