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I never thought that a quest for a new stew-stock pot would take me so long
the one I have been using for a number of years, had a bit of an accident a couple of weeks back
after washing and drying it, I failed miserably to hold onto the lid in an appropiate way when putting it back in the kitchen cupboard and consequently dropped and broke the glass lid, it shattered into multiple pieces rather like a car windscreen used to
hence the search started for another, various local shops and establishments were visited and searched through, though nothing of suitable quality was found, most of the offerings for sale were of cheap aluminium construction or not the right size,
so an internet quest was undertaken, but has yet to reach a suitable conclusion, those that might meet the minimum requirements either being ridiculously expensive or from foriegn lands that have a high rate of postage and packing
all I want is a minimum size of 7.5 litres, made of stainless steel with a encapsulated base that is thicker than the walls, preferably with copper as the intergrated metal, a glass lid with a steam escape vent hole and heat resistant stub handkles on the side and lid for the times I actually use it in an oven rather than on the hotplate
its begnning to look like i may have to fork out a rather large amount of hard earned to actually purchase something suitable to my demands or cut them short and go the cast iron route
are stew pots non fashionable these days or am I just being too picky ?
the one I have been using for a number of years, had a bit of an accident a couple of weeks back
after washing and drying it, I failed miserably to hold onto the lid in an appropiate way when putting it back in the kitchen cupboard and consequently dropped and broke the glass lid, it shattered into multiple pieces rather like a car windscreen used to
hence the search started for another, various local shops and establishments were visited and searched through, though nothing of suitable quality was found, most of the offerings for sale were of cheap aluminium construction or not the right size,
so an internet quest was undertaken, but has yet to reach a suitable conclusion, those that might meet the minimum requirements either being ridiculously expensive or from foriegn lands that have a high rate of postage and packing
all I want is a minimum size of 7.5 litres, made of stainless steel with a encapsulated base that is thicker than the walls, preferably with copper as the intergrated metal, a glass lid with a steam escape vent hole and heat resistant stub handkles on the side and lid for the times I actually use it in an oven rather than on the hotplate
its begnning to look like i may have to fork out a rather large amount of hard earned to actually purchase something suitable to my demands or cut them short and go the cast iron route
are stew pots non fashionable these days or am I just being too picky ?
