Let su settle this matter right now. Is a pan one uses to fry in (or sometimes bake as in corn bread)a skillet or frying pan?
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Skillet or Frying Pan?
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They're both the same as far as I know.. I call it a frying pan.
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According to Webster, the words frying pan and skillet can be used interchangably. I hope this doesn't confuse anyone too much.
The word skillet is of British origin and could be a small kettle or pot having 3 or 4 legs for cooking on the hearth. A spider is a cast iron frying pan with legs for standing among the coals on the hearth.
It was explained to us on a tour of a historic home in Annapolis, with a detached kitchen, that what made the task of cooking so miserably hot and smokey is that not all cooking was done in the big kettles on a swinging arm in the fireplace. Coals or embers were raked out onto the hearth, which was very low, and the pans placed over them for frying and boiling. Imagine walking past in one of the long dresses of the time and having it catch fire!
It was explained to us on a tour of a historic home in Annapolis, with a detached kitchen, that what made the task of cooking so miserably hot and smokey is that not all cooking was done in the big kettles on a swinging arm in the fireplace. Coals or embers were raked out onto the hearth, which was very low, and the pans placed over them for frying and boiling. Imagine walking past in one of the long dresses of the time and having it catch fire!
I concur. From all I have read, cooking was both arduous and very dangerous before modern conveniences.
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I use them interchangably, though I usually refer to a cast iron pan as a skillet.
michaelman2
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Retromom I think that is the way I have always heard it here in the south...Electric Skillet and stovetop is frying pan
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I always refer to anything that is circular, flat and has a handle a pan.
I always think of skillets as something just made of cast iron with the above qualities.
I always think of skillets as something just made of cast iron with the above qualities.
Launderess: It was explained to me by a chef/teacher that a frying pan generally has deeper, straighter sides than a skillet. There is no definite boundary, but a skillet looks a bit more like a saute pan (flared sides, not too deep) as compared to a frying pan, whose sides are usually straighter and at least two inches high. There is certainly nothing wrong with using the terms interchangably.
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Like I've asked in another thread,
range or stove?
and
saucepan or pot?
Like I've asked in another thread,
range or stove?
and
saucepan or pot?
'Stove' is an older term for what is now called a 'range' in the industry. 'Stove' is generally used to describe a wood-burning cooking appliance these days. Either term can be used, it's just that 'range' is more up-to-date.
A saucepan has one long handle. A pot has two stubby handles.
Once again, the world will not spin off its axis if you use the terms interchangably.
A saucepan has one long handle. A pot has two stubby handles.
Once again, the world will not spin off its axis if you use the terms interchangably.
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off axis
whee, what a ride! (wobble, wobble, wobble)
whee, what a ride! (wobble, wobble, wobble)
making do and muti-use utensils....
LOL-
I never knew what a teapot or a teakettle was or that there was a diference...we never had them.
Water was boiled in a any small 1 or 2 quart/litre pot. Since mom was used to making loose tea in her country...she would toss a teabag into a pot and make 4 or 5 cups with one teabag. This was also intended to reduce caffeine input to kids.
Did this once years ago to make tea for kids I was baby-sitting [because it was the only way I knew...imagine?] and their mother had NO IDEA what was in the pot when she saw it the next day on the stove. (The teabag had been tossed to be able to pour it.)
IMHO- the word Tea comes from the Phonetic English of the Chinese word O-TSAI or O-CHAI. [as in CHarlie] O-TSAI became TSAI so "T" for short was spelt Tea. And Dunkin Donuts thinks CHAI (their fancy Teas) is new ? HA!
LOL-
I never knew what a teapot or a teakettle was or that there was a diference...we never had them.
Water was boiled in a any small 1 or 2 quart/litre pot. Since mom was used to making loose tea in her country...she would toss a teabag into a pot and make 4 or 5 cups with one teabag. This was also intended to reduce caffeine input to kids.
Did this once years ago to make tea for kids I was baby-sitting [because it was the only way I knew...imagine?] and their mother had NO IDEA what was in the pot when she saw it the next day on the stove. (The teabag had been tossed to be able to pour it.)
IMHO- the word Tea comes from the Phonetic English of the Chinese word O-TSAI or O-CHAI. [as in CHarlie] O-TSAI became TSAI so "T" for short was spelt Tea. And Dunkin Donuts thinks CHAI (their fancy Teas) is new ? HA!
"I never knew what a teapot ( ) was..."
ROFLMAO!!!!!!
ROFLMAO!!!!!!
I AM SO SERIOUS...
Here is another one..
In Greek there is no difference between hand and arm, and foot and leg, nor toe or finger. So I simply thought there were two words in English for the same body part...
(Like poultry and chicken or pork and pig, or beef and cow. Barn animal ==> Germanic derived English names for the animals accoriding to peasants, but once it is on the master's (high-class) table as food==>French derived English).
So grandma failed her citizenship exam when asked in English how many fingers she has. She said twenty. It was cultural, not a lack of English=speaking skills. In her language, same word!
Hey Austin, isn't DEDOS in Spanish both fingers and toes?
Here is another one..
In Greek there is no difference between hand and arm, and foot and leg, nor toe or finger. So I simply thought there were two words in English for the same body part...
(Like poultry and chicken or pork and pig, or beef and cow. Barn animal ==> Germanic derived English names for the animals accoriding to peasants, but once it is on the master's (high-class) table as food==>French derived English).
So grandma failed her citizenship exam when asked in English how many fingers she has. She said twenty. It was cultural, not a lack of English=speaking skills. In her language, same word!
Hey Austin, isn't DEDOS in Spanish both fingers and toes?
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