Glass Cooking Pot with Lid, Borosilicate Simmer Pot for Soup and Tea

A clear borosilicate glass pot with a lid and a handle on each side, so you can watch a soup, a pot of tea or a simmer pot of oranges and cinnamon from across the kitchen. The wall is the window.

No lifting the lid to check. No steam lost every time you look. No guessing what is going on inside a closed steel box.

The lid stays on because you can already see

Every pot you own asks you to open it before it tells you anything. You lift the lid to see whether the broth has come up to a simmer, a cloud of steam goes up into your face, and the drips off the underside land on the stove. Ten minutes later you do it again, because nothing on the outside of a steel pot changes when the inside does.

Here you look at the side. You can see the first small bubbles rise off the base, the vegetables start to turn in the liquid, and the level drop as it reduces, all with the lid still sitting where it belongs. When it is hot the underside of the lid mists over. That is the steam staying in the pot, which is where you wanted it.

Good enough to leave out on the stove

A simmer pot is the obvious case. Orange slices, a cinnamon stick, star anise and a sprig of rosemary in water, left on a low flame through the afternoon so the whole house smells of it. In a steel pan it is a smell. In clear glass you can see the fruit turning slowly in the water, and it looks as good as it smells.

The same goes for tea brewed on the stove, a pot of broth, or a light stew you would rather carry to the table than decant into a serving bowl. It has two solid glass loop handles, one on each side, and the lid carries a round knob on top. Set it down between the bowls and everyone can see what is for dinner before the lid comes off.

Why borosilicate, and not the glass bowl in the cupboard

Most glass in a kitchen was never meant to go near a flame. Mixing bowls, jars and serving dishes are usually ordinary glass, and a sudden change of temperature is exactly what cracks them. This pot is borosilicate, the heat-resistant glass laboratories use for their beakers, because it copes with high and low temperatures and with the shock of going between them far better.

That is the corner the cheap ones cut, and you cannot see it in a photograph. As with any pot on a flame, the handles get hot, so reach for a cloth when you lift it. It goes in the dishwasher afterwards, and with no coating on it there is nothing to wear off.

It comes in two sizes, 1200 ml and 1800 ml, the same shape at two scales. Whichever you take, the next time you want to know whether dinner is ready, you just look.

Specifications

Type: Cooking pot with lid

Material: Borosilicate glass

Color: Clear

Lid: Clear, with a round knob

Handles: Two, one on each side

Capacity, small: 40.6 fl oz (1200 ml)

Capacity, large: 60.9 fl oz (1800 ml)

Small dimensions: 7.9 in across the handles, 6.3 in high (20 x 16 cm)

Large dimensions: 8.7 in across the handles, 7.1 in high (22 x 18 cm)

Stovetop: Gas

Cleaning: Dishwasher safe

Use: Soups, stews, tea and simmer pots

Package Includes

1x Glass Cooking Pot with Lid