Our standard kitchen set of saucepans-pots max's out with a 1 US gallon sized stockpot, good for 1 US gallon size jug of milk resulting in ~18 oz/0.5 kg hard cheese. While I do have a 3 gallon stockpot it is aluminum which is not recommended for milk products.
To make bigger home batches of cheese I need bigger and preferably double boiler stockpots, thus I ordered from
Amazon USA this set for USD30 including tax and free thus slow shipping.
Box arrived 6 days later and as expected they are thin with bottoms the same thickness as walls. But to act as nested double boilers for warming milk they are perfect and they stack down small with next size smaller lids going inside bottom of previous pot, except largest lid of course. When used as double boiler, the clearance is about 1 in/2 cm on bottom and 1/2 in/1 cm on each side. Only negative is labels don't peel off well.
Box said
Made In India and that useful for several types of cooking but they forgot making cheese! Maybe they don't make cheese in India? Great value for USD30!
UPDATE #1 @ Dec 2008 = Stockpot description says largest is 20 US quarts, but only fits 4 US gallons, 16 quarts and totally full to brim. Not happy.
UPDATE #2 @ Jan 2009 = Largest stockpot now
leaks from handle rivet holes on both sides, making the advertised 20 US quarts only good for 14 quarts, 3.5 US gallons. Not happy at all, Like salmac's post below, buy cheap, get cheap.