Use Your Pasta Pot for Beans and Stock, Too

A pasta pot is useful for cooking more than pasta. No matter what you cook, draining is simple — just pull out the insert over the sink. Voila! Rinsing can be done right in the pasta insert also. Here’s how:

Use a pasta pot for easy straining when you cook beans or stock. Put the pasta insert into the pot. Put the beans or the stock ingredients (depending on what you’re cooking) in the pasta insert. Fill the insert and pot with water. For stock: when the stock is done, lift out the insert, leaving the delicious stock behind in the pot. For beans: when the beans are done, pull out the insert — it contains those delicious beans, ready to rinse (if desired). The bean cooking water may be discarded, or saved (as long as it wasn’t the soaking water).

Related recipes:

• Ginger Chicken Stock (as part of Ginger Chicken, Rice and Lentil Soup)
• Cooking Dry Beans (method 3: Quick Soak and Cook)
  

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