EXCELLENT POT -- HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS LINE
I've been looking for decent pots for quite some time. I've tried supposedly good brands like Cuisinart, Kitchen Aid, and Farberware. All of them have been made in China. The stainless steel in all of them is very soft. They scratched and scored easily and deeply. Some of them pitted within a short time. Little bits of the metal came out, leaving little holes (not all the way through). Some of them (Farberware) gave off a horrible burning metal smell when they were on the stove with food cooking in them. The insides turned a horrible blackish color. This wasn't because the food burned. It didn't. This was in the normal course of cooking. Most of them have glass covers, which are fragile and break fairly easily. It's hard to find replacements and what good is a pot without a cover? They all have aluminum bolts to hold the handle to the pot. The aluminum is soft. It scores easily and deeply. Aluminum reacts with acid foods like tomato sauce and vinegar and leaches aluminum into the food...
Nice pan, easily scratched
This pan is quite nice, the size is great, heats very evenly, and works on induction cooktops. However, with just using a plastic spoon, the entire bottom of this pan is now scratched! Not something I ever expected from Tramontina since I have one of their "cheapie" sets, used it for 10 years now, with no scratches whatsoever. That's why I came back for another when my other pans would not work on induction. I guess if it isn't important to you that the scratches are then, then the pan itself is amazing. I need another and I think I'm going to look for another style in Tramontina, in the hopes that it will not scratch. Recommend for utilitarian reasons, but not for looks.
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