Cooks Standard 6-Quart Stainless Steel Stock Pot with Lid

Great size for pasta and soups and big enough there’s no danger of splattering.

I love this pot. Stainless steel still light weight. Perfect for big parties 🥳

Love love this large Stainless steel Stock Pot. It heats evenly and as fast as my All Clad. Not as heavy as all clad but to get such a great quality at this price. Thank you

I am a farmer. This means that I also can and freeze items from the garden for the winter. For a while now I have been frustrated when trying to do large batches of vegetables for freezing or canning. None of my pots were made for a large batch. This stock pot was recommended to me as great size and with lots of fantastic features. I trusted the recommendation enough to go forward with this purchase. I am so glad I did and here is why.First the size is huge. I bought the 30-quart size, so I knew it was going to be big enough for anything I was cooking. It was. The best thing about the size was that it is not tall and narrow. It is shorter and wide. The reason that this makes this pot so perfect is that the tall and narrow pots, when sitting under a range hood, creates a vacuum between the pot and the range hood that causes a nasty vibration in the range hood that will destroy a range hood in a few attempts to use both at once. Ask me I know as I had to replace a range hood after it was destroyed by using a tall stockpot under it.Next this pot has a heavy bottom. It is advertised as a 3 mm bottom with an impact aluminum disk imbedded for more even distribution of heat. What that means is that this pot carries the heat from the center cooking area, all the way out to the sides of the pan. EVENLY! My first use of this pan was using it with a bushel of tomatoes, cooking them down to make tomato paste. I have tried this before and have run into the problem of the center of the pan, getting hot and burning the tomatoes while the outside ring does not cook properly. Using this pan, I got no burning in the center. The tomatoes cooked evenly and cleanly. Plus, they cooked down to paste consistency in half the time of other tries.This brings me to talk about the lid of this pot. This lid is shaped so that it holds steam moisture completely. This caused me to have to slightly set the lid offside so that the steam could escape. While this was no problem and was expected, I have never had a stockpot that held the steam this well. It was great!This pot is heavy! (remember I said it was 30-quarts in size) It weighs 12 pounds empty. Filled, it is not something you want to lift off the burner often. Keep this in mind when purchasing this pot, but if this pot is so fantastic, I am sure that the smaller version of this same pot will be too. Just keep in mind the weight when choosing what size to purchase.This stockpot looks good and cleans up just as pretty as it was when I first got it. It is a wonderful addition to a kitchen. I highly recommend it.

I mostly use this pot for brewing wine and beer boiling the mash. The pot is very well built with a heat sink welded onto the bottom. The pot does not loose shape especially the bottom heat sink, it has stayed flat so far and not warped while heating, the lid fits tight. I can run cold water over the top of the lid to cool the pot and no water gets inside. The handles are welded to the pot and very sturdy, when the pot is full they do not flex. Over all the best stainless pot I have owned and serves the purpose of boiling 5 gallon batches of wort and mash very well with plenty of head room. I purchased the 30 quart size and have boiled several batches of wine in it so far, Love this pot!