Sam's Club 24 qt stainless steel stock pot & more
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 9:56 pm
Hey guys,
Like probably many of us, my first pot was woefully inadequate (12 quart), so I upgraded today to this 24 quart baby, which I found at our local Sam's Club for about $55. The thing is heavy and appears to be super good quality. Why haven't I been shopping at Sam's Club?? Feh!
Sure, to some of you, this is small, but I'm small time, with just 2 x 3-gallon carboys in a bedroom closet going at any time, but I do likes me my hooch, and this baby meets all the criteria I've been looking for in an upgrade: large capacity, super cheap price, good quality, flat lid, and a very wide lip that let's the lid sit perfectly flat, and will be trivial to paste up and binder-clip shut. I will be so happy when I can cook off an entire batch in one go.
As a total sidebar, I let some sugar/tomato paste distilled spirit (just a -single- pot distillation, mind you, with a finished product of about 53% alc) sit on glass for 5-6 months recently, and I tried it this week. I was actually very pleasantly surprised. Very smooth, sure a little "tomato-y" on the nose, but honestly, quite tasty and pretty damn good considering that particular batch could not have cost me more than $2. (I've been focusing on rum lately, so this batch kind of sat in my 'liquor closet', overlooked, for quite a while.)
-Jason
Like probably many of us, my first pot was woefully inadequate (12 quart), so I upgraded today to this 24 quart baby, which I found at our local Sam's Club for about $55. The thing is heavy and appears to be super good quality. Why haven't I been shopping at Sam's Club?? Feh!
Sure, to some of you, this is small, but I'm small time, with just 2 x 3-gallon carboys in a bedroom closet going at any time, but I do likes me my hooch, and this baby meets all the criteria I've been looking for in an upgrade: large capacity, super cheap price, good quality, flat lid, and a very wide lip that let's the lid sit perfectly flat, and will be trivial to paste up and binder-clip shut. I will be so happy when I can cook off an entire batch in one go.
As a total sidebar, I let some sugar/tomato paste distilled spirit (just a -single- pot distillation, mind you, with a finished product of about 53% alc) sit on glass for 5-6 months recently, and I tried it this week. I was actually very pleasantly surprised. Very smooth, sure a little "tomato-y" on the nose, but honestly, quite tasty and pretty damn good considering that particular batch could not have cost me more than $2. (I've been focusing on rum lately, so this batch kind of sat in my 'liquor closet', overlooked, for quite a while.)
-Jason