Initially I loved this pot.  I was looking for a good spaghetti sauce pot and thought I had found it.  Last night, cooked up some bacon, medium heat, fried pork chops in the the oil...as we sat down for dinner, we heard a "pop" but didn't think much of it since our windows were opened and it could have been anything. It was only when I washed the pot that I saw a gash at the bottom of the pot.  Got right down to the metal...layers of coating gone...this morning, almost twelve hours later, my husband reported another pop (that he heard) but this time, many shards of ceramic coating is now residue in the pot much like paint chips with two other areas of missing coating.  Scary.