Arcosteel Stockpot with Stainless Steel Lid

Somewhat Average – A six litre stainless steel pot. Be very careful it can burn contents i.e a tad thin on the base. The other problem is that the stainless part of it is very thin. I steeped a few articles with some Milton and it found a flaw in the stainless lining. Cheap! if it was not for the reflection of the price paid.  Show details

I reckon their product is very good – I mean they use a stainless steel clad aluminium base, which if thick enough, disperses and spreads the heat evenly across the base, which is important when making stews and soups. The aluminum is not as good as copper though, but copper - even copper offcuts on Ebay is blindingly expensive, but if it's thick enough - it's just fine. No pot… Read more ·  1

is resistant to "proper incineration" - so aside from these issues, it comes with a 25 year warranty - and it's well made.

The worst of the stainless steel pots come in a THIN single layer pot, and if you want to avoid burning anything in them, you have to bring all your water to the boil first and then add your chunky ingredients, and use a cast iron stove top to distribute the heat - or the food just burns on the localised hot spots.

I don't have this problem based upon "false economy" cheap junk stainless cookware, or the "scungy design" of an aluminium cladding that is only like 1mm thick....

Cheap and poor quality design cookware is just not worth the hassles you get in the long run.

This is why Arcosteel cookware is the minimum standard of cookware I buy.

Some meals like pease soup, you have to be a bit careful with it, because of the habit of the pease to stick, thicken and burn on the bottom of the pots.

For instance, when making pease soup, the using the Arcosteel pots and some careful application of heat and stirring, I can make really nice soups, where as in poorly designed pots with paper thin "cladding" under them, or the horribly cheap single layer paper thin stainless pots, the pease soup would be a charred coating across the bottom of the pot.

It's like climbing Mount Everest on discount center economy brand rope... forget it.

I want one good set of pots, that with care and cleaning, will cook great meals, with little to no problems, and they will last me for my entire life.

Acrosteel are the kind of pots that I want.

Tinned copper cookware with 6mm thick bases on it would be nicer, but I am not prepared to pay $250 for a frypan...

Plus stainless steel cookware lasts nearly forever. Tough, durable, good design, good to cook with. If your not prepared to pay for thick copper clad based pots, why complain about what you have bought - that while not quite as good, is doing a perfectly good job of it.