The black pot has a super smooth ground - good for glass ceramic plates. The coating on the inside is handy so you can sometimes a pasta sauce pour in without what appends. The stainless steel lid is perforated - which has the same 2 Advantages: The pasta is cooking so easy and not for casting you need no sieve. Properly clever are the handles. Upon pouring the lid firmly. If one from the pot, the handles fold down again and the cover is free. The handles do not get hot. Prima. I do not give the pot in the dishwasher, cleaned manually or oils inside and a good pan - that's me sympathetic. The lid is short hot brushed and dried, ready.