The cookpot sat waiting, filled with water and a handful of dubious vegetables.

Raskan appeared behind him, went to crouch down beside the cookpot.

But I'm afraid you've walked from the trap to the cookpot.

There's another version of the story where they talk Anansi into the cookpot, too.

I got a stove and a cookpot, you got a stove and a cookpot.