Goomba wrote:

> David Harmon wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 14:13:14 -0500 in rec.food.cooking, "cshenk"
>> > wrote,
>>
>>> Charlotte wasnt allowed to dump over a pot of boiling pasta from the
>>> stove to the sink colander at that age either.
>>
>>
>> I saw on a cooking show a pasta pot with an inner perforated pot that
>> you just lift out. It looked a lot easier than lifting the weight of
>> all that water, and a lot less tricky than pouring over the sink. At
>> least on TV.
>
>
> I had one and it was a POS. The pot was too small and too thin, and for
> some reason it took *forever* to bring the water to boil. Then when you
> go to lift up the inner colander up and out you're dripping water
> everywhere. Feh.
> Gimme my good large pasta pot and I'll drain into a colander in the sink
> any day.

I have a pot that sounds kind of like the one you describe - small,
thin, etc - but it never occurred to me to try to boil pasta in it. One
of my SILs gave it to me one Christmas. I use it for steaming veggies.
And any time I've tried to use it for anything else, the bottom scorches.

Since the kids and I are tall, with strong wrists and well-developed
senses of self-preservation, we just use a Farberware saucepan for
boiling pasta and dump it out into a metal colander in the sink.

Or, as my son sometimes prefers to do, draining the pasta by holding the
lid loosely onto the pan while tilting over the sink, thereby avoiding
the need to wash a colander.