I had it all figured out. Pots have two handles because of heavy liquids. Then I remember I have one that looks like this:
I mean, it’s a (sauce)pan. But it has two handles.
So if it has a LONG handle, it’s a pan. That’s my story and I’m sticking with it.
EDIT: wait, this is a pan (risotto pan)
So never mind. Call it whatever you want. Just don’t eat the Tide Pods and you’ll be fine.
@Oneroundrobb It’s engraved “risotto” in case you forget what you’re cooking. (also it will scream and explode if you put non-risotto materials inside)
@hchavers True, but ultimately those factors matter because they determine what is is used for. As such, “The use to which it is put” would cover those.
Pans have outwardly bent lips and short walled sides. Pots have straight or inwardly curved lips and high walls. A saucepan is in fact a short walled pot, but potpan doesn’t conjure the image of a shallow pot.
/image potpan
I use to say depth, but then I got a wok (which is a type of pan) that is technically deeper than some of my pots. I want to say it is based on whether it is used for heating liquids, but saucepans do that. I’ll just take the lazy route and say language is not bound by hard laws, but by malleable rules. But either way, your are worthless scum if you use say “irregardless” when you mean “regardless”
I have over the past few years been teaching my teen sons to cook and bake. Generally I call taller things pots, though reading today’s write-up I think I’d agree it is more about the handle. But overall it’s about what is the best tool for the task, regardless of what it is called. So sometimes it is just "get that thing out of that cabinet on the right."
If the recipe calls it one thing and I know other recipes call it something else, i’ll even usually mention that. Like Tuesday we made cupcakes, so the cake portion said “white sugar” and he asked which was that so I explained that was as opposed to brown sugar but was also called granulated sugar. Then the icing called for “confectioners sugar” and I reminded him that was also powdered or 10x sugar.
Watching the Great British Baking Show I had to Google a bunch of terms they said.
Um. One is a dead Cambodian leader and the other is a fictional character created by J. M. Barrie. I don’t understand how anyone could confuse the two.
@PlacidPenguin I have a strong dislike of using both, while having equal appreciation for their existence. The difference is one’s in the kitchen, the other is under a mountain of dirty laundry.
@PlacidPenguin@Thumperchick I’d add a bathtub to that list if there are children in the house… seeing as if dhs didn’t take a dim view of it I’d would have been tempted to treat them as functionally the same thing where the bathtub was the least convenient…
@Thumperchick well in @shahnm’s house the inside of the refrigerator would be buried in batteries. I don’t think @shahnm would recommend the washing machine for that use.
@Kidsandliz I will neither confirm nor refute any of the postulations in your comment. I’m replying solely to add the philosophical consideration about whether the inside of something can be buried in something else…
@PlacidPenguin
/8ball Can a dishwasher be used to wash clothes? Outlook good
/8ball Can a clothes washer be used to wash dishes? Better not tell you now
P+a+n = 31.
P+o+t = 51.
So… 20.
The non p letters.
I had it all figured out. Pots have two handles because of heavy liquids. Then I remember I have one that looks like this:
I mean, it’s a (sauce)pan. But it has two handles.
So if it has a LONG handle, it’s a pan. That’s my story and I’m sticking with it.
EDIT: wait, this is a pan (risotto pan)
So never mind. Call it whatever you want. Just don’t eat the Tide Pods and you’ll be fine.
@awk I’m calling shenanigans on that lagostina “risotto pan”. $400 msrp? “ergonomically designed”? It’s just a stainless steel pot with a fancy lid.
@Oneroundrobb It’s engraved “risotto” in case you forget what you’re cooking. (also it will scream and explode if you put non-risotto materials inside)
@awk Just keep your Tide Pods next to the Batteries in your fridge; that’ll cue you in to the fact that they’re not edible.
Or will it?
If it has one long handle it’s a pan. But you can call it a pot. Almost no one is going to be that pedantic.
Same difference as Regular vs. Magnum
Pot: "Kettle is black."
Pan: The actual culinarily proper word for pot.
Thus, Pan: “Kettle is black.”
Ergo: Both pot and pan are racist.
Shame on you, Meh, for espousing such hate.
/8ball Can pot be smoked?
It is certain
Concentrate and ask again
/8ball Can pan be smoked?
@narfcake
Pot?
I thought you said Dot.
Although there is this (tea)pot…
As for Pinky and the Brain…
Your survey needs check boxes, as several factors mentioned make the determination.
@hchavers True, but ultimately those factors matter because they determine what is is used for. As such, “The use to which it is put” would cover those.
@Fen_Star your solution is simple and logical. Therefore, it will be done by Meh.
Pans have outwardly bent lips and short walled sides. Pots have straight or inwardly curved lips and high walls. A saucepan is in fact a short walled pot, but potpan doesn’t conjure the image of a shallow pot.
/image potpan
Pots are deeper than pans and are usually for liquids. Here’s the most confusing part though: a saucepan is a pot.
@cpierce so, it’s sorta like the ‘not all yams are sweet potatoes but all sweet potatoes are yams’, thing?
Wait. Wait.
no. maybe not.
Depth to diameter ratio cuz I gotta large frying pan that is deeper than my smallest pot. So…there!
I use to say depth, but then I got a wok (which is a type of pan) that is technically deeper than some of my pots. I want to say it is based on whether it is used for heating liquids, but saucepans do that. I’ll just take the lazy route and say language is not bound by hard laws, but by malleable rules. But either way, your are worthless scum if you use say “irregardless” when you mean “regardless”
@simplersimon
Stop It by Fishbiscuit5.
/image baking pan
@medz there are no Brownie “pots” either…
@medz wrong
/image baking sheet
@Oneroundrobb
/image pan for gold
I have over the past few years been teaching my teen sons to cook and bake. Generally I call taller things pots, though reading today’s write-up I think I’d agree it is more about the handle. But overall it’s about what is the best tool for the task, regardless of what it is called. So sometimes it is just "get that thing out of that cabinet on the right."
If the recipe calls it one thing and I know other recipes call it something else, i’ll even usually mention that. Like Tuesday we made cupcakes, so the cake portion said “white sugar” and he asked which was that so I explained that was as opposed to brown sugar but was also called granulated sugar. Then the icing called for “confectioners sugar” and I reminded him that was also powdered or 10x sugar.
Watching the Great British Baking Show I had to Google a bunch of terms they said.
@mollama watching the Great British Baking show made me feel like I was learning how to bake all over again with all the different words for the same stuff here. https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2017/06/30/great-british-baking-show-guide-baking-vocabulary-british-slang/103294020/
/image age chamber pot
/image bed pan
both hold liquids
/image chamber pot
@cattylaq …or…(ewww) solids
Um. One is a dead Cambodian leader and the other is a fictional character created by J. M. Barrie. I don’t understand how anyone could confuse the two.
If the diameter is greater than the depth, it’s a pan.
If the depth is greater than the diameter it’s clear that I don’t know what I’m talking about.
@Thumperchick
What if they’re the same?
@PlacidPenguin I still won’t know what I’m talking about.
/giphy not a clue
@Thumperchick
Do you at least know the difference between a washing machine and a dishwasher?
@PlacidPenguin I have a strong dislike of using both, while having equal appreciation for their existence. The difference is one’s in the kitchen, the other is under a mountain of dirty laundry.
@Thumperchick
I’m hoping the washing machine is in the kitchen.
@PlacidPenguin @Thumperchick I’d add a bathtub to that list if there are children in the house… seeing as if dhs didn’t take a dim view of it I’d would have been tempted to treat them as functionally the same thing where the bathtub was the least convenient…
@PlacidPenguin @thumperchick - I had a dryer in the kitchen once…
@Thumperchick well in @shahnm’s house the inside of the refrigerator would be buried in batteries. I don’t think @shahnm would recommend the washing machine for that use.
@Kidsandliz I will neither confirm nor refute any of the postulations in your comment. I’m replying solely to add the philosophical consideration about whether the inside of something can be buried in something else…
/giphy hmm
@PlacidPenguin
Outlook good
Better not tell you now
/8ball Can a dishwasher be used to wash clothes?
/8ball Can a clothes washer be used to wash dishes?
@narfcake
Remind me not to eat by your house if I ever make it out west.
@shahnm people are buried in caskets which are buried inside the ground - just saying…
@Kidsandliz and treasure is buried in chests.
@chienfou and @shahnm thinks batteries that are refrigerated is treasure.
@Kidsandliz basically anything I have bought and paid for and now have in “inventory” IS treasure.