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It's not just a pancake griddle. It's a griddle that's used for all kinds of frying that doesn't require a lot of fat. And we wouldn't call the griddle a skillet because it's larger than we think of skillets and not as deep as a skillet in our geographical area. Also, we think of skillets as having long handles.
I was just wondering whether others here refer to large, very shallow, virtually handleless pans as 'griddles,' too. And not as skillets.
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I call it a griddle, too, WW. But then, you and I are regionally suspect (cf skillet).
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It seems that there are three sorts of things which might all (properly) be called a griddle. One is a big old cast iron or steel thing that fits over several burners on the stove/range and is used to cook things like pancakes. Another is a stand-alone electrical device which is used for the same purpose and is usually called an electric grill (rather than griddle) 'tho I think of grills as mostly being grated. The third is the huge metal fry-top on a commercial stove on which burgers, hash browns and pancakes are all cooked in restaurants, to which some people refer as a griddle, 'tho I tend to call it a grill, even 'tho it doesn't have grates. Confusing, eh?
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Do you know if there is a particular name for this?
Cast iron, like a Dutch oven, with lid, but with a handle like a fry pan, not a thick wire handle to hang it by (wish it did). I use it on top of the wood stove for soups and such.
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Dear Bow ~
Yah, I have one of those, too. I inherited it from my mother and know that, with proper care, one of my children will cart it away to their kitchen when I am dead and gone.
I would call it a Dutch oven, save for the handle which is clearly frying pan size and shape. I would call it a frying pan, save that it is much deeper than a frying pan and has a heavey, cast iron lid. I have used it for deep frying -- back before I spent way too much money on a fancy deep fryer out of a catalogue.
Conclusion: it is entirely possible to use an implement in the kitchen for many decades without knowing what it is ... or, at least, what to properly call it.
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Dear Father Steve,
I find myself in good company then. I’m an amateur in the kitchen, but I have my fun. On cold weekends, when I usually use the wonderful old cooker, we will mull over possible names. I got mine from my Mother-in-law; I think she got it from her Mom. One of my two sons will cook with it next, maybe the one that gives it the best name.
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If this http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004S9HH.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg is what you're talking about, a famous maker of cast-iron cookware calls it a chicken fryer. Another commercial cookware site called it a fry pan. We have one (though considerably more seasoned) that my father-in-law bought decades ago so his wife could fry enough potatos for the entire family (meaning, I gather, that there had been times when he hadn't gotten enough!); we just call it the deep skillet. That thing has caused a couple of minor domestic fracases (fracasees?): we have rather limited storage in our kitchen (and hopefully that situation will be improved this weekend), and occasionally my husband will put it in the oven as a place to keep it. I, never expecting anything to be in there, come along and preheat as usual, and discover much later that I have a very hot iron skillet (and lid) to find a safe place for so that I can bake whatever.
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http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004S9HH.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
It's just a dutch oven with a different handle.
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Jackie writes: "we have rather limited storage in our kitchen."
And the Vicar responds: "This is easily remedied by evicting the entire contents of a nearby closet and claiming it as 'overflow' for kitchen implements which are used less of than those kept in the kitchen proper. It worked in our house."
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Our kitchen cabinets have migrated into the laundry room.
I propose a new kitchen design. This is how it would work:
You would have a panel of buttons that would operate lifts in various parts of the kitchen floor.
Press button #1: Presto! The part of the floor to the left of the sink would rise into a full cabinet for extra pots.
Press button #2: Presto! The floor to the right of the sink
would rise into a full cabinet for extra pans.
Each part of the floor would cover a little cave of cabinets. In fact, I would call this invention "kitchen cavinets."
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