CAT CORA by Starfrit Stainless Steel Cook N Serve Casserole, 2-1/2-Quart

OK - not as great as it seems...
The idea is a good one: a stainless steel pot for cooking, plus a bamboo sheath to use as a cover when serving from a hot/cold pan, plus independent use of the sheath as a bamboo serving bowl. The bamboo bowl itself is fine, and the stainless steel 3.8 qt. pot with perky glass lid seems fine too.

But... the sheath doesn't quite fit properly. The handles of the steel pot are necessarily attached under the pot's rim, meaning that they stick down lower than the rim itself. Yet the rim of the bamboo bowl is perfectly even, without indentations into which the pot's handles could slide. So the pot touches the bowl only by its handles when it's nestled inside the bowl, leaving the rest of the rim between the handles free-floating over the rim of the bamboo bowl. This means the steel pot can tip a little bit either forward or backward -- a bit disconcerting when trying to move the filled combo or scooping out food.

Second, the handles on the pot stick out a very...

Absolutely love these!
Bought them all: 1.5 (from another site-not sure why this pot is more expensive than the 2.5 qt), 2.5 (still waiting for this one as this is part of my order is fulfilled by another source), 3.8, 4.9 & 5.9; I love all things bamboo-and while trivets are a lot cheaper, the bowls are a nice touch.
I almost did not buy these as the one reviewer left some pretty negative feedback. The only reason I would have taken .5 star away-this should be offered as a set and not just have to be bought pot-by-pot, but that is not an option. Saw these on another website, did some searching and found them here at fairly the best price-except on three of the four pots, I had to pay sales taxes.

1. Shipping: arrived quickly
2. Packing-very well packaged no damage to the outer box
3. Unpacked, stacked-to check how well they could be stored. The bamboo bowls fit into each other is very tight and might take some work to get back apart. No issues with the pots. With the pot...

PERFECT!
I needed something that wasn't huge but could use on top of the stove as well as in the oven. This has been great! Good quality and I would recommend it easily to anyone looking for such a pot.

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