All-Clad Stainless-Steel Stockpot

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Product Features

• 7-quart pot for simmering stocks, soups, chili
• Three-ply: stainless-steel layers sandwich pure aluminum core for even heating
• Comfortable lid and stay-cool pot handles riveted for strength
• Dishwasher safe, but hand washing recommended
• Lifetime warranty against defects

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11.6 x 9.7 x 9.7 inches ; 7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B00005AL63
• Item model number: 5507
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #21,494 in Kitchen & Dining (See Bestsellers in Kitchen & Dining)

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Product Description

Size: 7-Quart

Amazon.com Review

The bestseller among All-Clad's renowned cookware collections, the Stainless line provides serious and professional cooks with all the virtues that make All-Clad's worldwide reputation unsurpassed. Key to its high performance is a three-ply, bonded construction. Sandwiched between the exterior and an 18/10 stainless-steel interior is a thick aluminum core that spreads heat evenly across the bottom of the pan and all the way up its sides. The interior is 18/10 stainless steel, highly polished so it's stick- as well as stain- and corrosion-resistant. The exterior is gleaming, magnetic stainless steel that works on induction as well as conventional stovetops and, with care, remains beautiful during this cookware's lifetime warranty against defects--and beyond.

This 7-quart stockpot makes clear why All-Clad's Stainless is so popular. It's a classic tall, narrow pot for simmering stocks, soups, and chili. Because the aluminum core extends up the sides, foods cook uniformly, even though the pot is 7-1/2 inches deep (8 inches in diameter). And because the interior is nonreactive, tomatoes and other acidic foods won't taste metallic. Its lid and stay-cool loop handles are riveted for strength and won't be harmed by an oven's highest heat. A rolled edge facilitates dripless pouring. Although Stainless cookware is dishwasher-safe, hand washing is recommended. --Fred Brack

From the Manufacturer
All-Clad Stainless Construction
Each piece of All-Clad cookware features a unique metal bonding construction. All-Clad Stainless cookware sandwiches a thick core of three separate layers of aluminum between an easy-to-clean, highly polished 18/10 stainless-steel cooking surface and a magnetic stainless-steel exterior. The aluminum core retains heat and evenly distributes it along the bottom and up the sidewalls of the cookware. The stainless interior is stick-resistant and cleans easily. The magnetic stainless-steel exterior gives the cookware a gleaming finish. All-Clad Stainless also features the company’s signature "stay-cool" long handles, lids fashioned from gleaming 18/10 stainless steel, and highly durable stainless-steel rivets. All-Clad Stainless cookware is one of five collections from All-Clad Metalcrafters. Designed to work on conventional gas and electric ranges, as well as induction cooktops, All-Clad Stainless cookware is the best-selling collection in a full line that includes All-Clad LTD, Cop-R-Chef, Master Chef 2, and Copper Core.

Features and Benefits
All-Clad pans with a stainless interior cooking surface are oven-safe up to 500 degrees. All-Clad pans with a non-stick cooking surface are oven-safe up to 400 degrees, but should not be used under the broiler. We recommend using a low to medium temperature when cooking with All-Clad. Higher heats are not necessary and may cause discoloration (see cleaning instructions below). Other features include:

• Beautifully polished, magnetic stainless exterior layer.
• Pure aluminum core that not only covers the bottom of the pan but also extends up the sides. This allows for great heat conductivity as well as an even heat distribution so you won’t have "hot spots" when cooking.
• Stainless-steel interior layer/cooking surface.
• Long, polished stainless, stay-cool handles.
• Sturdy, non-corrosive stainless-steel rivets won't react with foods.
• Polished stainless-steel lids fit evenly with the pan’s edges to seal in flavor of your foods.
• The All-Clad Stainless collection is compatible with an induction stovetop (with the exception of a few pieces) in addition to gas and electric stovetops.
• The Stainless collection is dishwasher-safe, excluding pieces with a nonstick cooking surface.

Warranty
From date of purchase, All-Clad guarantees to repair or replace any item found defective in material, construction or workmanship under normal use and following care instructions. This excludes damage from misuse or abuse. Minor imperfections and slight color variations are normal.

Cleaning Instructions
For daily cleaning, warm soapy water is sufficient. Clean your All-Clad thoroughly after each use. Food films left of the pan may cause discoloration and sticking. To get rid of stuck-on food or discoloration and stains from using too high of a heat, we recommend cleaning your All-Clad with a product called Bar Keeper’s Friend. To use the Bar Keeper’s Friend, simply use a soft cloth or sponge and water and make into a soupy paste. This can be used on the interior, as well as the exterior of your All-Clad (excluding the Cop-R-Chef). The Bar Keeper’s Friend can also be used on the exterior of the All-Clad Stainless collection, LTD collection, and MC2 collection. For cleaning of the Cop-R-Chef exterior, simply use a brass/copper cleaner. If your water has a high iron content, you may notice a rusty discoloration. Use Bar Keeper’s Friend to remove it.

All-Clad Stainless Selection
In recent years, a professional-size 14-inch fry pan was added to the Stainless fry pan assortment, as well as several popular specialty pans, including: the small-size petite brasier with a dome-shaped lid; petite roti roasting pan; and the beautiful, large-capacity Dutch oven and French oven oval roasting pan with roasting rack. Both of these one-pot comfort food specialty pans comes with All-Clad’s popular high dome-shaped lid. Other specialty pans include a larger brasier pan with domed-shape lid; a complete family of round-shaped saucier saucepans for versatile stove-top cooking; a flare-sided Windsor pan in two sizes, designed for reduction and the creation of rich sauces; and a contemporary "Soup for Two" 3-1/2-quart soup pot; casseroles; an open stir fry; a versatile wok-style chef’s pan; and a "Pasta Pentola" 7-quart stockpot with colander insert and lid. All saucepans, casseroles, sauté pans, stock pots, and specialty items come with lids. Double boiler and steamer inserts, including the large steamer insert for 6-quart, 8-quart and 12-quart stockpots, are available as well. Stainless cookware sets are available in various sizes, from a starter 5-piece to a complete 10-piece set.

About All-Clad Metalcrafters
Based in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, All-Clad Metalcrafters markets premium quality cookware to department and specialty stores in the United States, along with premium All-Clad bonded bakeware, All-Clad All-Professional kitchen tools, and a growing assortment of kitchen accessories, including All-Clad’s upscale tea kettle, measuring scoop set, stainless-steel mixing bowls, kitchen colanders, and 1-cup measuring cup. Featuring a unique metal bonding process, All-Clad cookware is used in many of the finest restaurants in America, and is sought by serious home cooks seeking all-professional cookware to enhance their cooking experience.

Product Description

If you love pasta and hearty portions of steamed vegetables, be sure to have this 7-qt. Stainless Pasta Pentola and Insert. Made of high quality stainless, the heavy aluminum core covers the pot bottom and sides to ensure even and efficient heating throughout. Two double-riveted side handles won't bend or loosen. Lid sits securely on top so flavors and moisture stays sealed inside. High-polished stainless looks beautiful use after use.All-Clad Stainless cookware is crafted from three permanently bonded layers of metal. A layer of pure aluminum rests between an 18/10 stainless steel cooking surface and an exterior layer of stainless steel. Designed to perform on all conventional ranges, heat spreads quickly and evenly to produce superior results. Each piece features a long, stay cool handle and a well-fitted stainless steel lid. Dishwasher safe. Not for use on an induction range.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for Turkey Soup and making jam, August 8, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: All-Clad Stainless 12-Quart Stockpot (Kitchen)

No boiling over the top with this pan on your stove. It takes a bit longer to heat up than a smaller pot but when that jam gets a roiling boil it doesn't splatter all over the kitchen. Also if you do large quanities of applesauce this pan is great. Or cook 3 dungeness crabs? No problem, 10 ears of corn, no problem. Simmer a turkey carcass, no problem. The only thing wrong is the pot is big on the shelf but hey, its worth it. Great pot, only wish they made a 16 in stainless for making beer.

22 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Do You Have to Spend Big Money for a Big Pot?, February 3, 2007

By	One Hip Kitchen (Shores of Lake Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All-Clad Stainless 12-Quart Stockpot (Kitchen)

OK, I am cheating here a bit by cutting and pasting a recent equipment review by the magazine Cook's Illustrated/PBS show America's Test Kitchen. This is a long review, so if you want to cut to the chase, just scroll to the last paragraph before the listing of the individual reviews.

Here in the test kitchen, we have 15 stockpots of varying sizes, and we use them often. Most home kitchens, however, have room for a single stockpot, so it must handle a variety of big jobs-from steaming lobsters and cooking bushels of corn to canning and making huge batches of chili or homemade stock.

So what size is best? After substantial pretesting, we determined that a 12-quart stockpot is the most useful size--it's the "smallest" big pot, meaning it can handle most big jobs yet is small enough to store with your other pots and pans. So how much do you have to spend to get a good 12-quart stockpot? We bought nine basic stockpots (no fancy steaming or boiling inserts), ranging in price from $25 to $325, and headed into the test kitchen to find out.

We boiled water, cooked mounds of pasta (two pounds of pasta and eight quarts of water at a time), prepared two dozen ears of corn, and made double batches of beef chili in each pot. To evaluate the pots, our testers used digital scales, thermometers, stopwatches, gas and electric burners, and plenty of elbow grease. They handled each stockpot extensively to get a sense of its overall feel (both empty and full) and handle design. We washed the pots repeatedly and practiced stowing them away. What did we find out?

SHAPE-SHIFTING: The best stockpot we tested, the $325 All-Clad, impressed us more for what it didn't do--scorch on the bottom or feel awkward or flimsy--than for what it did do; after all, how sexy can a stockpot be, even when it's performing flawlessly? That said, our testers preferred wide stockpots (such as the All-Clad) to tall and narrow ones (such as the Vollrath), as greater width allows you to see and manipulate food better and makes for easier cleaning and storage.

A WEIGHTY ISSUE: The heavier pots (all weighed without lids) outperformed the lighter models. The four heaviest pots in our testing were all made of stainless steel with an aluminum core. Aluminum conducts heat very well and ensures more even cooking and fewer hot spots. The aluminum core also makes the bottom of the pot thicker, which reduces scorching. The lighter pots (including those without aluminum cores) did a fine job cooking corn and pasta--in fact, they heat up faster than the more even-heating pots with aluminum cores. But for cooking applications where sticking and scorching are risks (such as chili), a heavier pot is a must.

GET A GRIP: Handles matter-a lot. We found that the best handles extend from the pot at least 13_4 inches and are either flat or thick and round, for easy gripping. The All-Clad, Cuisinart, Lincoln, and Arcosteel pots had the best handles-they were easy to grip, even with potholders and a pot full of steaming chili. Pots made by Vollrath and Farberware performed well in cooking tests but were severely downgraded because testers found their thin handles to be awkward and poorly designed.

SUMMING UP: You can buy a solid, aluminum-core 12-quart stockpot (like the Cuisinart) for $65--or you can drop $325 on the beautiful All-Clad pot, which didn't have a single flaw. If you use a stockpot primarily to boil corn or pasta, it makes sense to buy the Cuisinart model and use the savings to upgrade something else in your kitchen. Whatever your price range, opt for a pot that feels heavy for its size. And when shopping, give the handles a test-run by picking up pots with potholders. The pots are listed, with comments, in order of preference.


Highly Recommended

All-Clad Stainless 12-Quart Stock Pot
Price: $324.95
Material: stainless steel with aluminum core
Weight: 5.5 lb.
Comments: This pot was lauded for being "nice and heavy," with "easy-to-grip" handles that "didn't get too hot" (although we still needed potholders). The aluminum core runs up the side of the pot-other pots have aluminum cores only in the bottom, if anywhere--which ensures more even heating than most of us will ever need.

Recommended

Cuisinart Chef's Classic Stainless 12-Quart Stock Pot
Price: $64.95
Material: stainless steel with aluminum core
Weight: 4.35 lb.
Comments: Very similar to the All-Clad pot, the Cuisinart comes with handles that are "easily grippable" and "sit well in your hand." The upward tilt of the handles made it especially easy to pour out the contents. This pot was also praised for being "plenty heavy," and the bottom was pristine after cooking the chili.

Lincoln Foodservice Wear-Ever Professional Series 12-Quart Stock Pot
Price: $59.90 (with lid, which must be purchased separately)
Material: aluminum
Weight: 3.85 lb.
Comments: This all-aluminum pot fared well in the test kitchen. Testers loved its "light weight," "solid feel," and "sturdy raised handles," which made handling and pouring easy. Aluminum is not as durable as stainless steel, which may lead to problems down the road.

Recommended with Reservations

Arcosteel 12-Quart Stock Pot
Price: $49.95
Material: stainless steel with aluminum core, tempered glass lid, silicone handle covers
Weight: 3.7 lb.
Comments: This pot heated relatively evenly-there was only a tiny patch of chili stuck after 21/2 hours of cooking. The handles are "sturdy" and offer "good control," but this pot was downgraded for dangerous bare spots (no silicone) on the handles.

Farberware Classic Series Stainless Steel 12-Quart Stock Pot
Price: $70.95
Material: stainless steel with aluminum core
Weight: 4.5 lb.
Comments: With better handles (these were deemed "uncomfortable" and "slippery"), this heavy aluminum-core pot would have been in the "recommended" category. It heated very evenly, and testers liked how the lip of the lid "caught a lot of condensation."

Vollrath Stainless Intrigue Professional Cookware
12-Quart Stock Pot
Price: $88.48 (with lid, which
must be purchased separately)
Material: stainless steel with
aluminum core
Weight: 6.35 lb.
Comments: This tall and narrow pot "felt tippy" and "cumbersome" and was "harder to pour" and clean than squatter pots. It did, however, cook with very even heat and was the heaviest of all the pots we tested.

Endurance R.S.V.P. Stainless Steel 12-Quart Stock Pot
Price: $37.95
Material: stainless steel with aluminum core, tempered glass lid
Weight: 3.25 lb.
Comments: "Shallow," "thin," and "narrow" handles made it hard for testers to grip this pot. This pan heated fairly evenly (thanks to its aluminum core), and there was very little sticking during the chili test.

Not Recommended

Metro 12-Quart Stock Pot
Price: $24.95
Material: stainless steel with tempered glass lid
Weight: 2.3 lb.
Comments: There was serious burning/sticking at the bottom of this very light pot during the chili test. The handles taper into a point, making it "hard to get your hand in to grip it."

Metro Set of 3 Nested Stock Pots with lids: 8-, 12-, and 16-quart
Price: $49.99
Material: stainless steel
Weight: 1.8 lbs
Comments: Testers said this pot, the lightest of the lot, "felt like a toy and would dent too easily." With handles that rose above the top of the pot, it was very awkward to pour because "the leverage is all wrong." There was major sticking and burnt matter on the bottom of the pot after the chili test.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great replacement for Le Creuset French oven, October 4, 2009

By	Jay (Pittsburgh PA) - See all my reviews

My hands have started to hurt a lot, so I replaced a 4.5 qt. Le Creuset French oven with the 8 qt. All Clad stockpot. It's so much lighter, and holds twice as much, so it works even better for making a large pot of Bolognese. The 8 qt. size is just right for 2 onions, 2+ pounds of meat, 2 28 oz. cans of tomatoes, and the requisite amounts of carrots, celery, milk, and wine. The finished sauce comes halfway up the side of the pot, so I'm sure I could've made an even bigger batch if I'd wanted.

It's wider than it is high, so it's not a typical stockpot, but I am looking forward to making some chicken stock in it this winter. And chili.

The only downside is that, until you get everything in the pot, it's a little *too* light. The pot moved around slightly on the burner as I stirred the onions, carrots, and celery. Once everything was in the pot, this wasn't a problem, though. I imagine it's something I'll get used to.

All in all, it's a terrific replacement for my much heavier Le Creuset. I'm sure, in time, I'll get so I don't miss the rock-solid steadiness of Le Creuset as it sits on the burner. I sure won't miss washing it.

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