On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:41:45 -0700, Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:

> I just use my stock pot with one of those collapsible metal vegetable
> steamers on the bottom. To keep them upright, I loosely run kitchen
> string (in this case, kite string) around them.

Yep - What I do, too. I don't other with the string, I just stand
them upright and pack them loosely in there. I have several size
pots I can use depending on how many tamales I've made.

No sense buying a dedicated tamale pot.

-sw