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What is the difference between a frying pan and a skillet? |
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What is the difference between a frying pan and a skillet?
Hi,
I've been trying to cook myself more (not actually cook 'myself' but cook food myself lol) and have come accross a few recipes saying 'use a large frying pan or preferably a skillet" I thought a skillet WAS a frying pan? Is there something different about a skillet? If so, what?
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It may not be the official difference but I think of a skillet as cast iron
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I think skillets have the kind of handle that can go in the oven.
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Skillets are the American versions of frying pans!!
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Skillet and frying pan are much the same although generally heavy frying pans are called skillets (in the UK and the USA).
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I always thought of a skillet as being a flat circular cast iron baking plate with no sides, I think the Americans refer to a frying pan as a skillet.
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