What is "stockpot"

Usage examples of "stockpot".

The rest of Pigpen was in the stockpot, headfirst in prizewinning barbeque sauce.

Down on his hands and knees under two large stockpots was The Barbeque Guild president, Paul Taylor.

Only three days ago, upon his return from the deer-lease woods, he had added to the stockpot a fat crow which had been stuffing itself with juniper berries.

Urick marched the midgets through her kitchen — showing off her stockpots, and how plain-but-good everything smelled.

Urick marched the midgets through her kitchen—showing off her stockpots, and how plain-but-good everything smelled.

So there were three huge stockpots frying turkeys, two chock-full of crayfish and com on the cob and new potatoes, big pans of jambalaya, soup tureens full of gumbo and etoufee, and thousands of oysters to throw on the grill.

Urick’s room bubbled like the stockpots on the back of her stove — the sound of life held steadily at a simmer.

Urick’s room bubbled like the stockpots on the back of her stove—the sound of life held steadily at a simmer.

They turned from cutting board to stove-top with breathtaking economy of movement, they hefted 300-pound stockpots onto ranges, tossed legs of veal around like pullets, blanced hundreds of pounds of pasta, all the while indulgently enduring without comment my endless self-aggrandizing line of witless chatter.

I have the luxury of 30-quart stockpots, a willing prep crew, readily available bones and plenty of refrigeration space.

He may have been over sixty, but he lifted stockpots without help, wielded the largest knife I'd ever seen, and generally kicked more ass more quickly than any of the younger cooks.