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 is the idea of moving towards, of reaching out...
An approach is a movement, a journey, a unique way of discovering and encountering oneself.
Libre
It is the freedom to explore, to choose, to invent one's own path.
Libre evokes creation without constraint, independent thought, and the flexibility to adapt. It is about experimenting, trying things out, without the fear of making a mistake...
Nature • Cauldron • Autonomy
Approche Libre®, is an invitation to live in freedom, to slow down, to look further, and to reconnect with essential actions— through fire, authentic cooking, and exploration.
Exploring nature
A world made of bivouacs and nomadic cauldron cooking. Living outside more simply to gather around a fire.
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Equipping yourself for autonomy
Simple and essential tools for those who blaze their own trail.
🇫🇷 Our creations are designed and developed in Nice with our design & graphics teams, then field-tested in real-world conditions.
All your orders are shipped quickly from our warehouses located in Réau, in the Île-de-France region.
We wish to restore the importance of cauldron cooking and also offer our selection of durable equipment to allow you to get started right now
Learn more about this cast iron cauldron
Our cast iron cauldrons
We select robust three-legged cast iron cauldrons that are adapted for wood-fire cooking.
Cast iron allows for even heat distribution, which is ideal for slow, controlled cooking.
Each cauldron is pre-seasoned and ready for use upon receipt.
Complying with European food safety standards, they guarantee healthy and reliable use.
Their simple and solid design ensures stability, durability, and comfort.
✔ Pre-seasoned, ready to use
✔ 6 Liters: ideal for 2 to 4 people
✔ Compliant with European food safety standards
→ Our guide to choosing your cauldron
→ Complete guide to maintaining your cast iron cauldron
→ How to manage the fire for slow, controlled cooking
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Cooking to turn back time
Our recipe sets engraved on wood
We have designed recipe sets engraved on wood, inspired by Gaulish feasts, medieval tables, 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 dietary habits of the three periods mentioned, as revealed by history and science today.
WILD BOAR STEW WITH LENTILS, RED WINE & DRIED BLUEBERRIES / Medieval cuisine
One fire. Three eras. A thousand ways to live in freedom...
→ 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 mixture of Gaulish aromatics
We have also recreated a mixture of aromatics: The Breath of Cernunnos.
This mixture was specially designed, in collaboration with the Herboristerie du Vieux Nice, to be adapted to cauldron cooking — that is, for preparations simmered over a wood fire.
Our mixture of Gaulish aromatics is made up of seeds, plants, flowers, and berries historically present in the territory of Gaul before Romanization.
The species chosen are confirmed by paleobotany and by the current natural distribution of indigenous European taxa.
→ What herbs were used in Gaulish cauldron cooking?
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Fire kit - Approche Libre
Ferrocerium rod and robust scraper.
Take what you need to light a fire in difficult conditions...or more simply, to cook in a cauldron with your family
→ How to light a fire with a ferrocerium (practical guide)
→ Lighting a 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 are l'herboristerie du vieux Nice, recognized for the quality and diversity of its plants, and l'imprimerie Robert, founded in 1893, which assists us with rigor and care in the creation of our visuals and the adjustment of our layouts.
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