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Let us move on to a skillet. It is a utensil with the same design and functional features as a frying pan. Hence, skillets and frying pans are the same types of pans. But how did the confusion between skillets and frying pans appear?

Previously the word skillet was mostly used for frying pans manufactured of cast iron. Saying skillet, people implied the one of this material. However, the phrase cast iron frying pan is also quite common. That is why the two terms have become interchangeable. Both skillets & frying pans refer to the same types of pan, and there is no need to look for features to distinguish between them.

So, both of them have:

We have already mentioned how the word skillet has been interchanged with the frying pan. But it is not the only reason for the appearance of the difference between a skillet and a frying pan. Some cooking enthusiasts who have tried to discover the distinction between the two think that the confusion appeared because of the generic expression for kitchen utensils, i.e., pots and pans. As already mentioned, the pan is a common word for different cookware in the kitchen that is not limited to a frying pan only. There are also: