@feld These pots are stainless. Apparently you can make a bad stainless pot. You can also make a bad cast iron: Lodge for instance. They don’t bother to take the extra step of grinding the cooking surface smooth. I used to have one of these, which was much nicer: https://fieldcompany.com But I couldn’t move abroad with it. Which is fine because it turns out I like carbon steel much better. It’s like cast iron but featherweight.