Talk:Cooking pan

1. I too have never heard of a cooking pan. It is a frying pan.
2. This is hardly a subject for an encyclopædia. We seem to be having a lot of cooking pages appearing on wiki; first recipes, now utensils. None of them are encyclopædic or encyclopædia topics. All are listed on the votes for deletion page. I guess this will have to join them. FearÉIREANN 00:27 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Yeah, I don't really have much problem with a page frying pan existing -- there are many worse sins. (I don't like recipes though). I won't move it or do anything else, otherwise i'm just making more pages to potentially delete. I'll let someone else put in on votes for deletion if they want, see what others think. Tristanb

I've listed it on the VfD page. FearÉIREANN 03:14 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Is there a common term for saucepan, frying pan and similar? May be Pan (cooking)[?]? - Patrick 02:50 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)

There are a whole bunch of terms for the same general concept, that of a vessel that is relatively broad and shallow. "Cooking pan" is a generic term that would cover a range of shapes and sizes, then cooking pot could be for things that are deeper and used for a different purposes. Ideally, one would have many redirs for all the other terms that are used. Stan 04:35 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)

A google search gets 8,350 hits for the exact phrase. I object to deletion

This article is a pitiful stub, so I encourage people to fill it out with information. What about the history of cooking pans? Which culture invented the first cooking pan? What's the oldest cooking pan that archeologists have discovered? How have modern materials been used to improve their design? There's lots that could be said here, and I hope it will be. Martin 17:50 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Agree. I also think that pots, pans and other such tools of culture and civilization are indeed appropriate subjects of encyclopedia articles. -- Infrogmation 16:26 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)