Abstract: A standard cooking pot is provided with an interior crescent shaped wall. The crescent shaped wall fastens to the inside surface of the pot and is sloped upwardly and away from the pot bottom from a radius of constant elevation on the generally cylindrical pot wall. The wall is aligned so that the two end of the crescent shaped wall fall on a diameter or chord across the pot parallel to the axis of the pot handle(s). At the juncture of the crescent shaped wall to the inside cylindrical pot wall at least one narrow interval is defined to permit drainage of cooking liquid along the pot wall and under the sloped crescent shaped wall. Preferably, the narrow interval is irregular--defining intermittent large and small apertures--so that total plugging of the aperture flow is unlikely to occur.