Great product. Is holding up nicely so far. Love the drain option on the lid. Highly recommend

I really like this pan I like how the lid locks on so that you can pour water out of it if you’re doing pasta. The size is great for pasta or for soups. From what I have used it, I believe it is worth the money. It was exactly what I needed.

I bought several of these and love every single one of them. Very easy to clean and the portability is nice. Worth the money. The build quality is very high and I will be using these products as gifts when I need to.

It cooks a lot of pasta at once and is easy to clean. It’s sturdy and makes straining boiling water out of pasta easier without having to use a separate strainer. The lid stays locked on while pouring so you don’t get burned.

It is big, strong, sturdy, and the non-stick feature works great. I'm cooking with it as I write. Just what I was looking for.

This is appears to be a well made pan that has an attractive design. Giving it 4 stars only because I haven’t used it yet but I have no reason to think it won’t work as expected. .

Purchased to replace pot with deteriorating non-stick inner coating. Used pot several times to cook pasta. Easily holds 2lbs. Clean up very quick & easy by hand. Time will tell regarding durability of ceramic coating. Handles slide to block lid from falling out during drainage. Took 1 star off because handles get HOT & required gloves or a towel to hold during drainage. Also, handles do NOT lock. They rattle & are loose when placed over lid. Took another star off for that. Tried to tighten screws but no effect. Also, nowhere on box or pot does it say name is “Active Cuisine”. Included pictures show shipping box & name as,“Rossetto”. Purchased pot for the ceramic/ PFAS-free coating. Disappointed that a $50 pasta pot has shortcomings mentioned.

I purchased the 8.5 quart version.I have several good things to say about it:First, it is all as described, plus just a little bit more.With respect to it being a little bit more, for instance, I don't think they even mentioned the two slots cut in the upper knob or handle of the lid as being a place where you can park your big wooden spoon when you aren't actively using it, but it's there and it's useful and it's convenient. So, there's a plus I don't think they even bothered to mention.The pot is surprising light. I expected it would have more heft and weight to it, which doesn't mean it is lacking, after all, it's a pasta pot and not a Dutch Oven, rather it's just that much easier to handle and a cinch to store in the far reaches of cabinetry when empty. For me, compared to most any of my other pots and pans, or even what I expected this one would weight, my having to bend over and reach in and up to park it on the top shelf in the back of a cabinet under my kitchen counter is like having to stow away a popcorn bucket full of feathers or something. It's just very light.(It's a slightly different story when it is full of six or seven quarts of water or something, but even then it's not too bad at all, considering that most all of the weight it just the six or seven quarts of fluid, and not the pot itself.)With a previous smaller pot, approx. 6 liters/6 quarts, I suffered frequent boilovers. This 8.5 quart pot has pretty much cured that, and even though I often boil up to 2 lbs of spaghetti noodles at once and I don't stand around my kitchen paying attention to any pot all that much anyway, so I like a bigger pot that is just all that much harder to accidentally boil over.I don't see why one couldn't just boil or prepare something that is just a quart or two in it anyway, just as easy. (I almost always think bigger is better, but then again I have repeatedly had no problem frying up just a single egg or two in a 12" skillet even though an 8" skillet was always right there and available.)Anyway, no pot is really ever too big to really handle something, but it is all too possible to have a pot too small to handle something. So I suggest and advise, why not just go for the 8.5 quart version instead of even considering the 5 quart one?The handles that are supposed to hold the lid in place when straining work easy. No instructions are really needed to figure out how they work in about two seconds.The strainer function of the lower lid rim works pretty good. Thanks to that, and a comparable strainer I have on a smaller and higher temperature oven-safe triple-ply pot, both work well enough to where I have now put my colander into deep closet storage.I absolutely don't miss having to clean up a colander in addition to having to clean up a pot and lot of other things. (I generally use the big holes on the lids under rim, but there is a choice of two different hole sizes depending on what I could be straining.)At first I was using it on an electric cooktop (GE profile) and it worked just fine on that, but now I use it on a portable induction cooktop and it works even better and even faster on that.The bottom of it responds great to the magnets of an induction burner, and the aluminum under the ceramic keeps the heat spreading around even, (not to mention any water being brought to a boil in the pot itself).Anyway, it just works absolutely great on my induction cooktop. (Nuwave PIC Titanium.)I know it says it is safe to use metal utensils, but I still avoid using metal utensils with it just to be on the ultra-safe side of things.So far the ceramic has stayed intact, with no signs of scratching or damage, and it is pretty much a breeze to clean out. The ceramic interior seems to be so easy to clean that I suppose if I didn't want to have to wring out and dry a sponge or dishcloth, a wet paper towel would do just fine, and maybe now that is exactly what I will start using in the future just to avoid having to dry out a sponge or dishcloth anymore.I have yet to burn anything in it, so I can't vouch for how easy or hard it would be to clean up then, but if you don't burn anything in it I expect that just a wet paper towel would be all the elbow grease and scrubbing needed to clean out any pasta film, tomato sauce residue, or whatever. Its ceramic interior really is very non-stick.I have not used it for any braising yet, so I just can't attest to anything pertaining to braising in it yet.Anyway, I love it and I think that anywhere around $50 or so that this is just a very good deal.It's my pasta pot of choice now and I want for no other.Seriously, even if I had something like a Le Creuset 7.5 Dutch Oven I would be reaching for this pot first to make pasta and a lot of other things, just for sake of how light and easy it is to work with, and on induction at least, for just how fast it is to bring water up to a boil.Ceramic coated cast iron would only be harder to handle, and slower to bring water up to a boil in.I'm pretty sure this pot is probably not something to make bread, cornbread or many other things in, and a whole lot of other things one would seriously rather use a Dutch Oven or a slow cooker to prepare, but for what this pot is mostly intended to be used for, for boiling up pasta noodles and light soups and such, it is exactly the right specialized tool for those types of things and for those types of things it certainly is my weapon of choice now.If there is something better for the tasks this pot is mostly intended to be used for, then I haven't discovered it yet. This big red pot really does seem to be the perfect pasta pot and I highly recommend it. I am 100% happy with mine and I am really happy I purchased it.