Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I was very sorry I purchased this Farberware 2-quart saucepan. I have enjoyed owning 5 other Farberware stainless steel pots for over 35 years, and they are every bit as good now as when they were purchased. Though the design of the new pot is very similar to that of the older pots by Farberware, and fits into the collection nicely in that regard, the pot is not of the same quality as that of the older pots. For one, it is not stainless steel, or at least not "stainless" as that concept was known long ago. When I cooked strongly-colored foods, such as purple cabbage or something containing tomato paste, the bottom cooking surface of the new pot turned colors (blue and red), especially where the flame touched the pot. There were also residual scorch marks that often needed to be scoured off. That leads me to question whether the base of the pot is properly distributing heat. My older pots never turned colors or showed scorch marks, even when higher heat was used. If you compare the (inside) cooking surface of the newer and older pots, they're different. The newer pot has more evident, coarser, concentric grooves, created during the finishing process. Grooves like those were imperceptable in the older pots. Moreover, cooking material tends to accumulate in those minute grooves, especially at the curviture where the base meets the vertical side walls of the pot - a place which is harder to scrub clean. I suspect that the metalic materials (alloys) used to make the newer pots are different from those of long ago. I should add that for the older pots, even when food was badly burned, due to my neglect, those older pots came perfectly clean, and look fine today. Since the (Amazon) vendor who sold me the pot refused to take it back, I decided to use it just for boiling plain water. That much it seems capable of doing.