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FREYE-ingp-an/ˈfraɪɪŋ pæn/

A frying pan is a wide shallow pan with a long handle, used for frying eggs, meat, or pancakes on the hob. Countable: a frying pan, frying pans. Two words: frying pan (id: frying-pan). A wok is deeper and rounder for quick frying; a saucepan is deeper with a lid, for boiling. A pan is the general word. Mix-up: frying + pan as two kitchen words in a list — teach them as one tool.

Meaning

A wide shallow pan with a long handle, used for frying food.

Examples

• “Heat the oil in the frying pan.”
• “Do not leave the frying pan on the heat.”
• “This frying pan is too small for four eggs.”

Good to know

a frying pan (two words, wide, shallow). Contrast: wok (deep, round), saucepan (lid, boil). Mix-up: pan (general).

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