Do you think this pot is suitable for placing a glass bowl on top for melting chocolate, etc? All my pots are low and wide. How tall is this pot?
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Yes I think so it's a nice heavy gauge pot. It is 4 inches tall and the diameter is 6.5 inches.
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OKQuilter, this is a more upright pot rather than a low wide pan. I guess you could use it as the base for a double boiler. I don't have this exact pot, I gave it to my nephew as a gift (it's a nice size for mac and cheese). But the dimensions are about 4 inches high and 7 inches wide. Hope this helps! Dana in(BA)OK
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It would work to make a double-boiler with a glass bowl, but it is taller and narrower than the pot I use for that purpose. I use a dutch oven and a large stainless steel bowl to melt chocolate. If you've got a medium glass bowl, it will be fine. I use this pot to heat up soup, milk for cocoa, cream when I am making caramel candies, etc.
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It might be tricky. There is an optical illusion going on when you look at this pot. It is slightly wider than it is tall. Last year, another purchaser was unhappy about that because it didn't fit where he wanted to put it. So I measured all of mine and discovered that no matter what size you buy, the very top is wider than it looks. If you can make your macrame work around that, it should look great because the finish on these pots has a luster that makes them look like polished stone and a macrame hanger would put it at eye level. Hope that helps.
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If that is the 16"-wide pot, it is 11¾ inches tall. There is a drainage area in the bottom as well as a plastic drainage screen, but if you are going to have it outdoors and you live in a rainy area, you should use a drill or an ice pick to put some drainage holes in the bottom. I love this pot! It looks like it's made out of stone, but it's not. It is very lightweight. Mine spent the winter on the deck and froze a time or two, but it looks brand new.
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I don't think so. I use it for smallish coffee mugs and it's fine. Anything tall would cause "tippage," I think. Six inches is the highest I would trust, and even then, the glass would have to be fairly narrow in diameter.
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I just measured it with a square. It bows up 1/8 inch in the middle even when cool. Then warps more as it is heated. I didn't find that to be a big problem however on my glass top stove. BTW, here is a trick. Most of my pots are flat bottomed and I do have a ceramic cooktop. I have some copper bottom pots that are not flat on the bottom which do not work well, but use a trick to get them to work faster. If you wet the bottom of the pan before you put it on the stove the water will turn to steam and efficently transfer heat from the cooktop surface to the bottom of the pan. The steam condenses on the bottom of the pan and then drips back to the cooktop surface to boil away again. I just measured it with a square. It bows up 1/8 inch in the middle even when cool. Then warps more as it is heated. I didn't find that to be a big problem however on my glass top stove. BTW, here is a trick. Most of my pots are flat bottomed and I do have a ceramic cooktop. I have some copper bottom pots that are not flat on the bottom which do not work well, but use a trick to get them to work faster. If you wet the bottom of the pan before you put it on the stove the water will turn to steam and efficently transfer heat from the cooktop surface to the bottom of the pan. The steam... » Read More I just measured it with a square. It bows up 1/8 inch in the middle even when cool. Then warps more as it is heated. I didn't find that to be a big problem however on my glass top stove. BTW, here is a trick. Most of my pots are flat bottomed and I do have a ceramic cooktop. I have some copper bottom pots that are not flat on the bottom which do not work well, but use a trick to get them to work faster. If you wet the bottom of the pan before you put it on the stove the water will turn to steam and efficently transfer heat from the cooktop surface to the bottom of the pan. The steam condenses on the bottom of the pan and then drips back to the cooktop surface to boil away again. « Show Less
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I returned the pot, can't measure it anymore, but I would guess it was ca 5" high. More like a Dutch oven than a tall stock pot.
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I just got mine in the mail ... I would say that if you put this pot on a glass cooktop ... you would not have even weight distribution across the bottom of the pan. This is not a perfectly flat milled bottom on the pot. This is not an encapsulated bottom. The bottom of the pot is no thicker than the sides. This is a bonus for my intended purpose but if you are looking for something milled flat that will stay flat forever ... this may not be what you are looking for.
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The pot's inside measurement is 10 1/2" wide. But at only 7 3/4" tall, it's too short for large jars when you need to cover the tops with 1" water.
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I'm sorry I must have missed this email question - with the lid open the height of the machine will reach about 24 inches. . I wouldn't recommend it for your low cabinet space as you will need to open the lid all the way to remove the basket. However if you have a kitchen table or an open area with a steady table it would work wonderfully. The bottom of the machine doesn't get very hot, so it won't melt the top of a portable table if you have one. I use it on a wooden butcher cart and a Laminate counter top and it hasn't melted either of them. I even took it to work for a pot luck and made french fries on a plastic portable picnic table. so it's pretty safe, just make sure you put it on a stable surface to prevent the hot oil from spilling. I hope this helps and good luck!
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I do not have one it will fit. It's eleven inches at the top. I need a large , shallow, pot which I need to get.
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I'm sorry I can't answer you truthfully. I have use the pot for canning and soups. I needed a good heavy pot and this one ended up back at Amazon and I got a better one at Bed Bath and Beyond. Same kind of pot different mfg. and heavier. The one I received from \Amazon was out of round so the two pieces did not fit good.
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Is this bowl thick enough to cook candy in? I have been using a copper jam pot, but I want something rounded.
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I'd think it would work. I often use pots on it that are larger than the heating surface - the pot "hangs over" the edge a bit, but as the cooking surface is flat it works well. However, be sure that the bottom of your pot is FLAT - if it's dome-shaped or warped it won't be in full contact with the heating surface and won't work well.
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Never thougt to use these for that purpose. I prefer stainless steel bowls when I melt chocolate and they also come in various sizes. I use the glass bowls for food prep, serving and storage.
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How HIGH is this pot from bottom to top rim (w/o lid)? Also, how WIDE? The info is contradictory! Thanks.
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Hello,We apologize for the delay, we were closed for the weekend.Ths pot measures- 20 1/8" in diameter and 20.13 in the Height.Looking Forward,Raizy
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I am using these pots inside glass pots - they are relatively soft and might stand up outside - my suggestion is get those clear plastic under liners a couple of inches wider than the base. I have not measured mine. But the pots of this kind I've purchased seem to be wider than the photos - seemingly shorter sides. I hope that is helpful (Happy Valentines Day!)