Generously cover the bottom of a large frying pan with olive oil and place over a high heat.

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On a table, sit a frying pan, a toaster oven, a blender and a wooden sawhorse and an electric saw.

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Pour oil to a depth of about 1 inch into a large saute pan and heat to 350 degrees Fahrenheit on a deep-frying thermometer.

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Or she could get a frying pan from the kitchen and beat on it with a spoon.

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Instead of a butane burner or brazier filled with charcoal, you can use a more convenient (and much easier to find) electric frying pan or wok.

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Once a light station that marked the shoals off the coast of Southport, North Carolina, for ships, the two-story Frying Pan Shoals Light Station now houses a bed-and-breakfast perched on a platform 32 miles off the coast of Cape Fear.

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If you want to master the art of making omelets, you need some tools: a frying pan, a spatula, a whisk, plus the eggs and other ingredients.

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When pouring in the batter, don't overcrowd the pan (frying three cakes at a time is plenty) and spoon the hot oil over the cakes as they cook.

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Heat a non stick pan and dry fry the bacon until crisp, add the mushrooms and continue frying for about 5 mins until they have softened.

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But Mrs Child appeared on set with a frying pan, a portable hot-plate, an apron, a whisk and a dozen eggs, and merrily whipped up an omelette as she was being interviewed.

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