About Free Approach
🇫🇷 Approche Libre® is a French brand that offers durable and robust equipment for cooking in a cauldron with complete autonomy.
Approche Libre® — the spirit of a brand
Approche
It's the idea of moving towards, of striving...
An approach is a movement, a journey, a unique way of discovering and meeting oneself.
Libre
It is the freedom to explore, to choose, to invent one's own path.
Libre evokes creation without constraint, independent thought, adaptability. It's about experimenting, trying, without fear of making mistakes...
Nature • Cauldron • Autonomy
Approche Libre® is an invitation to live freely, to slow down, to look further, and to reconnect with essential actions—through fire, authentic cooking, and exploration.
Explore nature
A world of bivouacs and nomadic cauldron cooking. Living outdoors more simply 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 tested in the field under real conditions.
All your orders are shipped quickly from our warehouses located in Réau, in Île-de-France.
We want to restore the importance of cauldron cooking and also offer our selection of durable equipment to allow you to start right away
Learn more about this cast iron cauldron
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 pre-seasoned, ready to be used upon receipt.
Compliant with European food contact standards, they guarantee safe and reliable use.
Their simple and solid design ensures stability, durability, and comfort of use.
✔ Pre-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 fire for slow and controlled cooking
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Cooking to travel back in time
Our wooden engraved recipe boxes
We have designed wooden engraved recipe boxes inspired by Gallic feasts, medieval banquets, or popular French cuisine from the 1930s — to rediscover the diversity and richness of cauldron cooking.
These recipes are the result of reconstitution work based on available archaeological and historical knowledge, in order to get as close as possible to the eating habits of the three mentioned periods, 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 French family cooking of the 1930s
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Our Gallic spice blend
We have also recreated a spice blend: Le Souffle de Cernunnos.
This blend was specially designed, in collaboration with the Herboristerie du Vieux Nice, to adapt to cauldron cooking — that is, preparations simmered over a wood fire.
Our Gallic spice blend consists of seeds, plants, flowers, and berries historically present in Gaul before Romanization.
The chosen species are attested by paleobotany and by the current natural distribution of indigenous European taxa.
→ What herbs were used in Gallic cauldron cooking?
Learn more about Gallic Spices
Fire kit - Approche Libre
Ferrocerium rod and sturdy 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 commitment to quality and our attachment to human values.
Among them, l'herboristerie du vieux Nice, recognized for the quality and diversity of its plants, and l'imprimerie Robert, founded in 1893, which supports us with rigor and kindness in the creation of our visuals and the adjustment of our layouts.
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