It truly is a roaster I didn't even need to take the lid off of it to make the french fried onion rings crispy and that's what you want from a roasting pan nice hot air that actually roasts what you put in it

I use this pot for solar cooking. Solar works best with dark colored, light weight pots and pans. Graniteware does it. Because it has no handles, this particular pot fits perfectly into a large Pyrex bowl and, with a second large Pyrex bowl inverted over the top and secured with binder clips, it creates a solar oven. I place an oven thermometer on top of the Graniteware lid to monitor the temperature. This lid is self-basting, so that moisture does not escape. Great for casseroles, chili, roasts, bread. That configuration of Pyrex and Graniteware fits into a Copenhagen style panel cooker for reflecting, but many people make reflectors out of silver-colored car windshield reflectors. Awesome, free energy to cook on a sunny day. Set it and forget it for a few hours.

Food cooks very quick in the roaster.

I was going to give only 4 stars because other reviewers had me concerned about the pan's longevity. However, my pan has no visible defects and is uniform and solid in it's construction, the lid fits perfectly, and was bargain basement priced. Plus, I already used this pan for baking one of those "artisan" bread recipes and the bread was pretty good--so, 5 stars!

As far as bread baking goes, this pan is significantly safer to use than cast-iron or clay cookers that are usually recommended for home-baking "artisan" breads. Those cookers require preheating with the oven to about 450-500F (seriously, wow!), which means the cooker itself gets to about 500F, which you then have to manipulate to get the bread dough into it. I am not that confident in my cooker manipulation skills to risk 3rd degree burns. So I took a chance that this pan would do the job without needing preheating, and would come up to temp quickly in the oven AFTER the dough is inside. And so it must've because the bread came out pretty pretty good IMHO. I would've included a photo of that loaf but the knife came out long before the camera (no one can resist a piece of fresh baked bread, yum!).

The product dimension here on Amazon usually leave something to be desired (putting it mildly), so I measured mine:
* liquid capacity is 3 qt (can hold more but that is about max cooking capacity)
* base inside is 8.5"W x 3"H (with straight sides)
* lid inside is 2" deep at center, sloping to 1" at edge (with self-basting dimples)
* height 5-3/4" with lid on base
* width is 10" diameter at the rim (there are no handles on the base)

I haven't used this on my gas stove, but I don't anticipate an issue since it held up fine in an almost 500F oven. I hope this review and measurements are helpful.

We absolutely love these!!
We were using the hard cast iron dutch oven pots before we find these and baking sourdough has gotten so much easier!
These are lighter to carry around and smaller so you can fit four pots in the oven at the same time!
Bread came out absolutely delicious!!