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means A shallow, flat-bottomed pan with a long handle, used for frying, searing, or sautéing food over heat.
from From "fry" (via Old French "frire," from Latin "frigere," to roast or fry) joined to the humble "pan" (Old English "panne," possibly borrowed from Latin "patina," a broad dish). English speakers have called it a frying pan since at least the Middle Ages — and "out of the frying pan into the fire," warning against escaping one peril straight into a worse one, is a proverb already old by the 1500s.
- cast iron
- Can outlive its owner by a full century
- seasoning
- Polymerized oil, not spices, makes the nonstick surface
- thermal mass
- Heavy pans hold heat to brown food better
- medieval roots
- Used by Romans, called patella in Latin
- flat-bottom rule
- Induction stoves reject anything warped or curved
for instance
cast iron skillet — lodge manufacturing has produced them since 1896, still the standard for heat retention and durability