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A cooking pot (saucepan in British English) is a large bowl that is heated in order to cook the food inside it. They can be made from either ceramics or metals, and have been used nearly everywhere in the world throughout human history. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Cooking pot. ... Image File history File links Pots_for_sale_in_Kenya. ... Image File history File links Pots_for_sale_in_Kenya. ... British English (BrE) is a term used to differentiate the form of the English language used in the United Kingdom from other forms of the English language used elsewhere. ... Cook can refer to Cook the profession, see also Cooking Cook is the title of a 1975 album by Premiata Forneria Marconi. ... The word ceramic is derived from the Greek word Κεραμεικος (the name of a suburb of Athens), and in its strictest sense refers to clay in all its forms. ... Hot metal work from a blacksmith In chemistry, a metal (Greek: Metallon) is an element that readily forms ions (cations) and has metallic bonds, and metals are sometimes described as a lattice of positive ions (cations) in a cloud of electrons. ... History is often used as a generic term for information about the past, such as in geologic history of the Earth. When used as the name of a field of study, history refers to the study and interpretation of the record of human societies. ...

Ceramic pots

The earliest cooking pots were made of clay or ceramics. Ceramics, such as stoneware or glass, are stable materials that conduct poorly, so these pots must cook over relatively low heats and over long periods of time. They are generally used in ovens, not on stovetops, where they may crack from too much concentrated heat. Even after metal pots came into widespread use, earthenware pots are still preferred among the less well-off, globally, due to their low production cost. Quaternary clay in Estonia. ... The word ceramic is derived from the Greek word Κεραμεικος (the name of a suburb of Athens), and in its strictest sense refers to clay in all its forms. ... Stoneware is an impervious type of pottery distinguished primarily by its firing temperature (from about 1200°C to 1315°C). ... This article refers to the material. ... An oven is an enclosed compartment for heating, baking or drying. ... A stove is a heat-producing device. ... Hot metal work from a blacksmith In chemistry, a metal (Greek: Metallon) is an element that readily forms ions (cations) and has metallic bonds, and metals are sometimes described as a lattice of positive ions (cations) in a cloud of electrons. ... Earthenware is a ceramic made from potash, sand, feldspar and clay. ...

Metal pots are generally made from a narrow range of metals. This is because pots and pans need to conduct heat well, but also need to be chemically unreactive so that they do not alter the flavor of the food. Most materials that are conductive enough to heat evenly are too reactive to use in food preparation. Look up Pan on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Pan could mean any of the following things: Pan is a type of cookware and bakeware Pan, a genus of apes composed of the Common Chimpanzee and the Bonobo Pan (mythology), Greek god of the shepherds, after whom the following are named... Heat flow along perfectly insulated wire Heat conduction is the transmission of heat across matter. ... Reactivity refers to the rate at which a chemical substance tends to undergo a chemical reaction in time. ...

See also

• Cookware and bakeware
• Pottery
• Cauldron