What is your largest pot, Casserole or Baking Pan or Bowl?

[Morning Glory]

I have one of the large pots for cooking chili con carne and mushy peas which I then freeze in single portions. I have the second large pot for a) steaming whole birds or fish and b) for cooking chili con carne if I'm really cooking a lot.

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Mushy peas.

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So organised!

 

[GadgetGuy]

Back to large pots. Why do you guys that have really large pots need them? Is it because you are cooking for lots of people or because you are cooking up large hunks of meat/whole turkeys etc.?

I've always had a large stock pot ever since the early '80s. I lost the one that I had while moving.

The main purpose of this is to make things in super large quantities, divide them up and freeze them. So that you don't have to make things as much. Saves tons of time!

 

[GadgetGuy]

It wouldn't fit in mine either. I didn't buy it. When we closed the works canteen it just happened to end up on the rear seat of my car.

Looks like a big lasagna pan!! Hah!!

 

[GadgetGuy]

Back in the UK I had a school dinners' pan for cooking chili con carne. It was about 24" x 18" rectangle x 3" deep and took up all four gas burners at the same time. It looked a little like this:

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Got a hotel pan like this that one of my brothers gave me. It won't fit in the oven either!!

 

[GadgetGuy]

Have to get one like THIS. Half size.

 

[Yorky]

The steamer.

 

[Morning Glory]

The steamer.

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Is that a whole egg you are steaming?

 

[Yorky]

Is that a whole egg you are steaming?

I took that picture some time ago. I think the egg was only placed to give scale.

 

[GadgetGuy]

Acually, THIS is my largest pot. The Presto 16-qt Pressure Canner / Cooker.

 

[Yorky]

I have one of the large pots for cooking chili con carne and mushy peas which I then freeze in single portions. I have the second large pot for a) steaming whole birds or fish and b) for cooking chili con carne if I'm really cooking a lot.

Chili con carne (in the freezer).

 

[GadgetGuy]

What does the pot look like?

 

[GadgetGuy]

My largest Casserole is the one on the bottom shelf in this cupboard!

 

[MrsDangermouse]

My largest pot would probably be my mother-in-law's old aluminium jam pan - its pretty much identical to this one (although mine is a lot more battered):

But it lives in the garage and is really is only used very occasionally when making jam.

I don't really use large pots - I do batch-cook, but the 5 litre pot from my pressure/slow cooker is plenty big enough most of the time. Probably the biggest "normal" pot I have is the pasta pot - about 10L I'd guess, and it does get used regularly to boil pasta.

 

[CraigC]

I forgot about my "Boil" pot which is 40 quarts.

 

[GadgetGuy]

My largest pot would probably be my mother-in-law's old aluminium jam pan - its pretty much identical to this one (although mine is a lot more battered):

But it lives in the garage and is really is only used very occasionally when making jam.

I don't really use large pots - I do batch-cook, but the 5 litre pot from my pressure/slow cooker is plenty big enough most of the time. Probably the biggest "normal" pot I have is the pasta pot - about 10L I'd guess, and it does get used regularly to boil pasta.

Almost like THIS!!