Anyone ever had a Le Creuset handle snap off

You could submit a warranty claim: LINK

The bottom of mine cracked(don’t even remember how) several years after I purchased it. Emailed and sent them some pictures and they replaced it.

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handle snapped off and snapped in half.

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I've had several pieces of LC for many years, and they get used often. Fortunately, I've never run into that.

Weird stuff happens, even with good products. The question is whether the brand will do the right thing. I had a Ruger Mark II pistol bolt ears snap off under regular use; they replaced the bolt right away even though it was many years out of warranty. Their response meant the difference in me buying more Ruger products or not.

I hope LC replaces your product. Please report back when you find out.

Friend,

I remember receiving a beautiful Le Creuset stockpot from Father for Christmas in 2003, shortly before the LSU national championship game against Oklahoma. Tickets to that game were also part of my Christmas gift, and Father was supposed to bring me to the game. For reasons I have never quite understood, he must have forgotten.

I waited until approximately thirty minutes before kickoff before realizing that if I wished to attend the game I would have to transport myself there. I decided to take the streetcar, but upon arriving at the stop I encountered a tremendous line and, with the peculiar confidence of youth, decided that walking would be quicker. It was. The walk was only a twenty-minute jaunt, and I arrived at the stadium at kickoff.

Security, however, saw fit to make me miss the first five minutes of the game.

This would not have bothered me much today. In 2003, however, I actually cared about sports, and that particular LSU team had occupied an inordinate portion of my intellectual life. I had spent perhaps twenty hours that year working on the LSUoverUSC Argument, a scholastic enterprise of dubious utility but considerable influence to the sport of college football and the birth of its playoff system.Thus, to miss the opening minutes of the national championship game because I had been forced to walk across New Orleans and then negotiate stadium security was, to my youthful mind, a grievous injustice.

I sat by myself and tried to enjoy the game, although enjoyment proved somewhat difficult. When I returned home, I was furious. Rather than behaving like a civilized adult, I took my frustration out on the one entirely innocent object within reach: the stockpot Father had given me.

I threw it against the concrete pad beside Grandfather’s garden in the backyard and dented it severely.

I kept that battered stockpot tucked away in my closet for several years, where it served as a sort of domestic memento mori for the consequences of allowing college football to acquire too much dominion over the spirit.

About ten years ago I decided that I wanted another stockpot. I contacted Le Creuset and explained the whole story to them, including the Christmas gift, the forgotten ride, the streetcar, the 20 walk, the five minutes missed, the national championship, and, finally, my regrettable act of culinary vandalism.

They declined to replace the pot.

They did, however, offer me a 20% discount if I wished to order a new one from their website.

I thought that was rather fair.

Yours,
TulaneLSU

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Larger cast iron, handle snapped off and snapped in half

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Watch your toes!

A friend of mine had an enamel Dutch Oven that started chipping. It was well out of warranty, but LC sent him a new one anyway.

Yep, I cracked one in half putting it on a burner