Stockpot Love

 

Aren't they beautiful?

My brand new, 24 qt, stainless steel, American made stockpots .

Why so big? And why 2, you ask?

One is to replace my water-bath canner. I have an ancient, black spatter-ware, canning pot. It says you can do quarts in it, but, when you fill it with enough water to cover the quart jars and set it to boiling, it bubbles & dribbles & hisses & makes a huge mess. So we bought this beauty, which is in fact tall enough to do 2 rows of pint jars. And there will be no bubbling over!

Bliss.

Still, you ask, why 2?

Well, while the one is heating up to can the food I have to have one to cook the food. Take applesauce, currently my method with applesauce was to fill my nice (but small) stainless steel pot, my granite-ware pot & 2 others because I didn't have 1 pot big enough to hold it all.

No more!

Now I can cook all of my applesauce in my 1 lovely stockpot & can it all in the other. No switching pots mid-batch or using every pot in the house.

Ah, the joy.

Yes, we are simple people with simple pleasures.

In fact, shortly after pulling them out of the boxes they came in, my husband had one of them full of soup & rib bones & started a huge batch of beef broth.

It smells delicious .

Blessings.