Frying pan (disambiguation)
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A frying pan
is a pan used for cooking, also known as a skillet. Frying pan may also refer to:
Frying pan
A frying pan, frypan, or skillet is a flat-bottomed pan used for frying, searing, and browning foods. It is typically in diameter with relatively low sides that flare outwards, a long handle, and no lid. Larger pans may have a small grab handle opposite the main handle...
is a pan used for cooking, also known as a skillet. Frying pan may also refer to:
Places
- Frying Pan ParkFrying Pan ParkFrying Pan Park is a park located in Fairfax County, Virginia. It has a variety of attractions of both a historic and recreational nature.The park contains the Frying Pan Spring Meeting House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places and dating from the 18th century, and the Old Floris...
, a park in Fairfax County, Virginia - Frying Pan ShoalsFrying Pan ShoalsThe Frying Pan Shoals are a long, shifting area of shoals off the coast of Cape Fear in North Carolina, United States. The shoals have been a hazard to ships in the area since the beginning of European exploration of the area; the area is littered with shipwrecks. The southern edge of the shoals...
, off the coast of Cape Fear, North Carolina - Fryingpan GlacierFryingpan GlacierThe Fryingpan Glacier is a medium-sized glacier on the eastern face of the Little Tahoma Peak just to the east of Mount Rainier in Washington. It covers an area of 1.3 mi2 and contains 2.9 billion ft3 of ice...
, on Mount Ranier in the state of Washington - Fryingpan RiverFryingpan RiverThe Fryingpan River is a tributary of the Roaring Fork River, approximately long, in west central Colorado in the United States.It rises in northeastern Pitkin County, in the White River National Forest in the Sawatch Mountains along the western side of the continental divide. It flows westward...
, in Colorado
Other uses
- Frying pan (guitar)Frying pan (guitar)The "frying pan" was the first electric lap steel guitar ever produced. George Beauchamp created the instrument in 1931, and it was subsequently manufactured by Rickenbacker Electro...
, an early guitar - Frying pansFrying pansFrying pans are ceramic objects of unknown purpose from the archaeological strata called Early Cycladic II in the Aegean Islands and the Early Helladic I and II elsewhere in the Aegean. There has been much speculation over the mysterious purpose of what are likely prestige goods. Characteristically...
, archaeological artifacts found in the Aegean Islands - Frying pans (flower), Eschscholzia lobbii, a species of poppy
- "The Frying Pan", an informal Australian name for the constellation ChamaeleonChamaeleonChamaeleon is a small constellation in the southern sky. It is named after the chameleon, a form of lizard. It was first defined in the sixteenth century.-History:...