Brass Vaana Pot (Size: Small, Diameter: 20cm, Capacity: 2.0-2.2L, Height: 10cm, Weight: 0.6 Kg) shaped cooking pot is a great alternative light weight traditional cookware for your daily rice varieties, biriyani etc. Vaana shaped brass cookware is typically wide mouth with a narrow rim to cook extensively meat gravy/dry style or make biryani etc. Brass has been in use for cooking for 1000s of years. It is made of a thick Brass sheet that can withstand high temperatures, which gives taste to the food. The benefits of brass is to preserve the antioxidants of the food cooked in them. Brass although light -weight also helps in preserving more than 90% of nutrition of food cooked in them. Brass is rustproof, safe, environment friendly, and recyclable, unlike iron which gets rusted with oxidation. Brass has a longer life than other metals or alloys and has zero maintenance. Traditional knowledge dictates that brass (Alloy of Copper and Zinc) has to be used only with a tin coating for our acidic form of cooking. The coating (Kalai) is done using pure tin by the traditional clusters of Tamil Nadu. Our Journey took us to the traditional clusters of Tamil Nadu who have been making these exquisite brass cookware for over the last 8-10 generations. Zishta has brought a fantastic pot for your home cooking.