# I want that pasta pot. Does that make me a bad person? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 9, 2003, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-that-pasta-pot-does-that-make-me-a-bad-person/147578 "2003-01-09T19:34:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Kakkerlak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bb73d2/32.png) [@Kakkerlak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kakkerlak)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-that-pasta-pot-does-that-make-me-a-bad-person/147578/81 "2003-01-11T04:00:05Z")
I will never let my brother live down the Sunday morning when he was eleven and I walked into the living room to find him watching early-morning Sunday infomercials. “What’s up, Cam ?” “ **Kakkerlak** , _this_ (points to screen) is no ordinary vacuum cleaner !” I have a friend who teases me for having a nonstick pan, and an electric mixer. He does all of his cooking with a set of cast iron pots, a thick oak cutting board, and knives he forged himself. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-that-pasta-pot-does-that-make-me-a-bad-person/147578/82 "2003-01-11T04:25:16Z")
First, this commerical is my absolute favorite in terms of total cheeze. The dad pointing to his watch in frustration of his wife’s late cooking cracks me up every time. Secondly, I second the ‘whats wrong with a colander’ argument? [drop pants to show obligatory butt crack] Thirdly, I drain grease down my pipes and don’t have a problem. ( I don’t do this all the time, but some times I am lazy.) Hot water liquifies which then globs onto parts as the pipes/water cool. Use \*Cold water \* as it chunks it up to move past the “U” pipe. About …oh…three times in ten years we’ve had to take out the U pipe. ( All of fifteen minutes of fiddling around. One tool needed: a bucket to catch extra water. Clean U joint and put back in. The hardest part is dealing with all the crap under the sink itself. How’d that get there? But what I want to know is: \*\*When Are Advertizers going to run out of BIG, Descriptive Words for their products? \*\* Kaboom! What’s next from Billy Mays: You’ve tried \*\*Kaboom! \*\* now follow it up with \*\*!!Nuclear Holocaust!!! \*\* It will take care of anything, including melting your dental work. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-that-pasta-pot-does-that-make-me-a-bad-person/147578/83 "2003-01-11T04:28:09Z")
Yikes…ahhhhhh…wrong coding… so…very sorry… don’t hurt me… (Mods, can you make better or just shoot me?) ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-that-pasta-pot-does-that-make-me-a-bad-person/147578/84 "2003-01-11T04:57:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by OpalCat \* > Another thing about the pasta pot… it would be handy for things that you want to cover but don’t want to boil over. Usually I have to stick a spoon in there and balance the lid against it to keep it from closing all the way… with this, you’d have a vent! OPAL, I have a full set of pots that have vents on the top of each lid…T-Fal. They do dual duty. My big stock pot makes many a soups and stews with a handy little vent on the top. The smaller sauce pan cooks up some frozen corn on the cob (just for me) with a vent on the top. Eh, dream all you want, there are options out there hun, options in cookware that don’t include As Seen On TV. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![fizgig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@fizgig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizgig)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-that-pasta-pot-does-that-make-me-a-bad-person/147578/85 "2003-01-11T07:12:42Z")
I just mastered colanders. My mammy’s real proud. I’m now on to avoiding chopping my fingers off while dicing celery. I say all you need is a chef’s knife, a paring knife, a pot, and a nonstick pan, maybe a Dutch oven, and some sheets and pans if you’re into cooking food in that big box underneat the burners. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-that-pasta-pot-does-that-make-me-a-bad-person/147578/86 "2003-01-11T07:25:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by techchick68 \* > \*\*OPAL, I have a full set of pots that have vents on the top of each lid…T-Fal. \*\* Yeah but can you also strain spaghetti with them? A-HA! I didn’t think so! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-that-pasta-pot-does-that-make-me-a-bad-person/147578.md?page=4)