Frying Pan

The Frying Pan is a wide-bottomed iron skillet on a gas or open-flame burner, the workhorse cooking item for any outdoor kitchen that needs to move fast. Crafted from Iron Ingots and Small Logs, it contributes to the Food sub-score and is the most direct of the cooking utility items — where the Cooking Pot implies patience and communal warmth, the Frying Pan implies speed, confidence, and a chef who knows exactly what they're doing. Chef Dente keeps at least two in her primary kitchen station, one dedicated to morning preparations and one reserved exclusively for what she calls “emergency protein situations.”

Pokémon with high appetite and food-investigation drive will approach a placed Frying Pan and observe it closely, drawn by both the visual cue of an active cooking surface and the food-adjacent smells the game's environment simulation implies. Fire-type Pokémon have an additional affinity for flame-adjacent cooking items — Magmar and Flareon have both been photographed sitting beside an active Frying Pan with an expression of professional respect. The Frying Pan pairs with the Cutting Board and Sink for a complete kitchen prep-to-cook sequence, and with the Stylish Frying Pan for a two-burner station setup.