Cuisinart 1.5 Quart Saucepan w/Cowl, Chef’s Basic Stainless Metal Cookware Assortment, 719-16

LOVE THIS POT
This is a GREAT 1 1/2 quart pot with a lid. I love cooking with it. Sturdy, well made, you can use a lower heating temperature, especially when using the pot with the lid on it. I highly recommend buying this pot, I wish I would have found this one sooner.

Excellent Heat Dispersion Qualities
For many years I have used Caphalon commercial anodized aluminum sauce pans. They are finally beginning to spall and flake on the outside, so I decided to try a stainless steel sauce pan. This looked like a good middle of the road pan, and not too expensive, so I bought it. The first attempt to use it was for steel cut oats. I toast the oats in butter before adding the water. As the pan heated up with its contents, I heard a faint popping sound within the bottom portion, due most probably to the dissimilar expansion rates of the steel exterior vs. the sandwiched aluminum core. As a mechanical engineer, these sounds trouble me a bit, because they are usually harbingers of some kind of early failure in the attachment bond between the metals. Anyway….on with the oats.
After 10 minutes on the lowest setting of the smallest burner on my LP range, the oats were burned (my usual toasting time on the Caphalon thick aluminum took about 10 minutes). However, the stuck-on black material easily came off the bottom with just a plastic scratch pad and some water. Second attempt went better – I paid attention, and they were done in just 3 minutes. I noticed that the bubbling of the butter occurred quite evenly across the entire bottom of the pan, due to the heat dispersing characteristics of the aluminum “sandwich” layer in the bottom of the pan. Once browned, I added water to the pan, and placed my cast iron flame tamer over the burner. (I hate LP ranges – it’s like cooking over a laboratory bunsen burner).
The simmering period (I let them go for 1 hour) was excellent. The water boiled very gently, and in spite of the tiny gas burner, the heat was dispersed very nicely, with steam bubbles rising equally across the entire bottom of the pan. For heat dispersion abilities, I would rate this pan a full 5 stars, as it is better even than my heavy cast iron, and weighs much less.
It loses one star because even though the handle on the lid looks hollow (and therefore cool), it still gets too hot to touch, even with a low burner flame. But then so did my Caphalon. Note to self: Use a potholder on the lid. This deficiency is fully corrected on the pot’s handle, which stayed at near room temperature throughout the cooking process. 5 stars on the handle – well made, very sturdy, light weight, and stays cool to the touch.
Lastly, the rolled edge on the rim of the pan, and the manner in which the lid nests inside, works very well to reduce or eliminate steam condensation and dripping down the exterior sides while simmering liquids. Performance on this was excellent.
I suspect this pan, like any stainless steel cookware, will eventually get blackened a bit on the outside, unless you are very diligent at scrubbing it off after each use.
All in all, I am quite satisfied with this pan, and would recommend it.

Great Saucepan
Love the size we use it for making soup and pot is easy to clean and lid is great

Awesome Pot
Exactly as advertised. Great pot. Gets 100% clean without residue.

It’s my first stainless steel saucepan, so I’m not sure yet how to feel about it. All of my other ones are cast iron. It doesn’t have the non stick coating, so I’m meanly using for soups and boiling veggies/eggs. Good for the price.

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