12 Quart Stainless Steel Stock Pot with Lid - 18/10 Heavy Duty Soup Pot for Cooking, Boiling & Canning - Perfect for Large Family Meals, Soup Making & Food Preservation

I have been looking for a large soup pot that's deep enough to accommodate a whole chicken for soup.I went through all the options first shopping for size using how many quarts the pot would hold. But I realized it's not the quart amount, it's the depth of the pot I should be searching for.I originally was looking at Dutch Ovens and realized that they were mostly shallow, even though they accommodated 6.5 to 8 quarts.Then I started looking for stock pots and the selection was abundant. This pot is stainless steel, simple with clean lines and a solid construction measuring 11 inches high, and holds 12 quarts. Perfect for making a pot of delicious soup packed with fresh vegetables. It is also not a weighted pot, making it easy to pick up when it's full.Deep enough to completely cover a whole chicken in water so it cooks throughout. I took a photo of my grandmother's pot that's over 100 years old. She brought it over from Sicily around 1900, and I can remember the dozens of huge meals she would prepare for our large family, cooked in that large pot.I remember when she cooked chicken soup, the chicken feet were sticking out of the pot's rim. All meat came from butcher shops, and when you bought a chicken, you bought the entire bird, head to feet. We ate hot soup even in the summer on the hottest day of the year.Italians didn’t care what month it was. The kitchen made hot food 365 days a year, in the heat, the rain, or snow.But that pot is aluminum, and because soup is boiling water, the inside always turned dark needing a Brillo scouring pad to remove the dark stains. You can see them side by side, and I still use that huge pot, but it was time for an updated version.Her stock pot is 123 years old, still beautiful, in great condition, and well-made. Thank you, Grandma.