Imusa Stainless Steel Stock Pot, 12 Quart

 (15 customer reviews)

This pot is very light weight. The metal is so thin that I am able to dent the sides, bottom, or lid with my hands. But it was cheap. Also, there was a large sticker covering one side. It took ages to remove the sticker and the glue.

As you might predict this is not of a quality level for frequent use.

I use mine for home brewing beer. It's good for my purposes and may also be useful for cooking large shellfish.

As the previous reviewer stated the sticker was near impossible to remove, barring that inconvenience I thinks it's a good value.

***Update*** I purchased an induction "burner" to speed up my brewing time and this pot does not work with it. A magnet will not stick to the base of this pot - so if you have, or plan on purchasing an induction cook top look elsewhere for a stock pot.

This pot is cheap. And yes, it does get dented. But it's super cheap, I really don't mind taking this out to a group camping trip, and we build a cook/grill fire with wood and stuff and I just set this on top of the grill sometimes. It gets covered with soot outside, but I don't mind it since it's only $12! I also just use it to bring about if friends and I have some sort of camping night somewhere and need to cook good amount of beef stew or soup or boil crab/clams or what not for a group of people.

I do have really a nice car camping set pots, and also nice light weight backpacking set that fit into my backpack as well, but those are more for personal use (when I'd go car camping or backpacking with just my husband). Why would I want to bring any of these special camping gears that I paid a lot for or pots I have at home that are decent and expensive, for something like large gathering camping trip for church group or ski trip w/ cheap cabin that I have to bring pots...Read more