Precise Heat 30-Quart "Waterless" Stockpot with Steamer Basket

A good big pot
This is a fine pot for boiling 5 gallons of liquid without any boil over. While I personally find the whistle annoying, it can be stopped by flipping a lever on handle of the lid.

Things you should know or consider:
- The pot and lid together (without basket) weigh about 7.9 pounds.
- The steamer basket weighs about 1.38 pounds.
- If you were to fill the pot with plain water, the combined weight (without the steamer basket) would be over 70 pounds.

The good:
- It is a large pot. Good for those times when you really need to boil 5 gallons of liquid without making a big mess on your stove.
- It looks good. Nice and shiny on the outside.

The bad:
- It is a large pot. As it is almost certainly too large for your dishwasher, you'll be scrubbing this by hand (without steel wool or other metal scrubbers, of course).

- The handles are riveted (pictures will be added) without reinforcement plates inside. If you fill...

Works Great for Homebrew
Bought two of these to use for cooking and boiling homebrewed beer. Got to use them for the first time last weekend and they worked wonderfully. The large capacity let me boil five gallons of wort without having to worry about boil overs. After searching for stainless steel stockpots for a while I found these to be the most reasonably priced for the size I wanted.

Dont buy Precise Heat 30-Quart "Waterless" Stockpot with Steamer Basket
After looking for a pot to replace my mothers favorite "soup" pot, I decided to give this one a try. After recieving it I opened the box to check the contents (it was a gift for her for xmas). The pot seems decent enough on the outside, however the details on the inside are alarming. The handles are attached with 2 rivvots each, the handle of the steamer basket appears to be made of the same kind of materials a wire coathanger is made of. Although it is heavy in weight, I do not see how its possible they sell this pot for $489.00. It was on sale for $101.96. I bought it thinking it was a $500 pot that was discounted, however it has the construction and feel of a $50.00 pot thats been marked up to look like a discount. As another reviewer noted, it does not heat evenly on the bottom as "precise heat" would indicate. If you are doing anything more than heating water, you will find it has hot spots, and does not distribute heat across the bottom as a pot of this price should...

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