Sauce Pots

Best Sauce Pots for Commercial Kitchens

Sauce pots are essential cookware for restaurants, catering operations, and commercial kitchens preparing sauces, soups, gravies, and batch-cooked items. These wide, shallow pots feature a larger diameter-to-height ratio than stock pots, providing more surface area for reduction and evaporation while keeping contents easily accessible for stirring and monitoring. From small batches of finishing sauces to large-volume soup production, the right sauce pots support efficient cooking and consistent results.

The category includes heavy-duty aluminum sauce pots for excellent heat conductivity and rapid response to temperature changes, standard aluminum pots for everyday cooking tasks, stainless steel sauce pots for durability and easy cleaning, and tri-ply induction-ready pots with aluminum cores and stainless steel exteriors for compatibility with induction cooktops. Capacities range from 11-ounce side sauce pots for tableside presentation to 60-quart pots for high-volume batch cooking. Diameters span 4 to 20 inches to match your burner sizes and production needs.

We offer sauce pots from trusted commercial brands including Admiral Craft, Bon Chef, CAC, TableCraft Professional Bakeware, Thunder Group, and Winco.

Why Choose Commercial Sauce Pots?

Wide design optimizes sauce preparation. The broad cooking surface of sauce pots promotes faster evaporation for reducing sauces to proper consistency, while the shallow depth keeps contents visible and accessible for constant stirring. This design prevents scorching and allows precise control over texture and flavor development during sauce preparation.

Efficient heat transfer supports precise cooking. Aluminum sauce pots conduct heat quickly and respond rapidly to temperature adjustments, giving cooks the control needed for delicate sauces and emulsions. Heavy-duty construction provides even heat distribution across the entire cooking surface, eliminating hot spots that can burn or unevenly cook contents.

Versatile sizing handles any production volume. From small finishing sauces prepared to order to large batches of soup for service, sauce pot capacities scale to match your needs. Smaller pots work efficiently on the line for à la carte preparation, while larger pots support catering operations and high-volume production.

What to Look for in Sauce Pots

Selecting the right sauce pots depends on your menu requirements, cooking equipment, and production volume. Matching these factors ensures optimal performance and workflow efficiency.

Some things to consider when shopping for sauce pots include:

• Capacity (from 11 oz to 60 qt)
• Diameter and height
• Material (aluminum, stainless steel, or tri-ply)
• Gauge/weight (standard or heavy-duty)
• Induction compatibility
• Handle design and attachment
• Lid availability
• And more!

The right sauce pots match your cooking style and production needs while providing the heat response and durability your kitchen demands. Most operations stock multiple sizes for different applications.

Shop Sauce Pots Today

Sauce pots deliver the wide cooking surface and responsive heat transfer commercial kitchens need for sauces, soups, and batch cooking. Aluminum and stainless steel options in capacities from 1 to 60 quarts support every kitchen size and cooking application.

Explore all your options, or browse our stock pots for deeper cooking vessels, or our sauce pans for smaller batches with single handles. Have questions? Reach out through our contact page today. We're always happy to help you equip your kitchen!