FWIW, before I got the Rowell I wanted to experiment with a large ladle. I bought an old soup lade at a flea market, the oblong, shallow kind, not the "ball cut in half" kind. I bent it a little to give me more of a spout and made a wooden handle out of a broom stick and hose clamp. Yeah, sounds beautiful, eh? Anyway, it worked great! You have to have a big enough pot opening, but you might be able to lash up a ho'made ladle of some sort with a lot more capacity than a standard ladle and see if that helps.