What to look for in a good stock pot?
Size: Stock pots typically come in sizes ranging as small as 6 qt. to as large as 20-qt. before getting into commercial sizes. Stock pots need to be larger than your soup pot because you usually make a larger batch of stock than you do soup but there is no reason to buy two seperate pots. You can easly make soup in a stock pot with room to spare, but you may come up short the other way around.I’m recommending you look at a 6-qt. – 12-qt. range so it will be versatile for your other cooking needs. Shape: As show in the picture on the left, a soup pot usually has a round base, deep straight sides and a cover. Although this shape is more important when making stocks and stock reductions, it works well for making soups too. Could you use a shorter, smaller, wider pan for making soups? Of course and depending on how much you are making you just may want to use a large sauce pan instead. Structure: No matter what type of pan you buy, you want it to have a thick, heavy bottom to prevent burni
