Calphalon 2029616 Premier Stainless Steel 3-Quart Chef’s Pan with Cover, Silver

I have the complete premier collection, but I noticed that the pans are all shallow. I prefer deeper pans for boiling pasta, making sauces, and so on. I looked around for something deeper in the collection and came across this pan. It must be a late addition to the collection. Anyway, I bought it and I’ve come to really appreciate it. It’s definitely deep and it comes with a strainer lid. If you don’t know what that is, there is a permanently attached band of metal (an inch and a half or so tall) below the glass disk of the lid that’s perforated on two sides. You can rotate the lid so that the perforations align with the pour spouts in the pan and then simply pour out the liquid while retaining the food inside the pan without removing the lid. That means you don’t need a collandar. You’ll never get a good seal due to the pour spouts leaving a little gap between the lid and the pan when you don’t use the perforated sections of the lid, but I still steam vegetables with it without any problems. Like the other Calphalon pots and pans I now own, this pan is very sturdy, distributes heat very well, and is surprisingly easy to clean. I highly recommend it.