Frying Pan
The Frying Pan is an uncommon equipment item in DayZ used for cooking, storage, and melee defense. It takes 12 inventory slots, weighs 750 g, provides 12 slots of internal storage, spawns in kitchen loot, can be repaired with a Blowtorch, and is used mainly for baking or drying food rather than boiling water.
Quick item summary
Quick answer
The Frying Pan is a cookware item in DayZ used to prepare food through baking and drying. Unlike a Cooking Pot, it cannot be filled with water and cannot be used to boil water or cook recipes that require water. It can still cook with animal fat and can be used at cooking stations that support a utensil slot, such as ovens and house fireplaces. The Frying Pan also works as a melee weapon and provides 12 internal storage slots while taking up 12 inventory slots itself.
In-game description
“A cast iron pan. Can be used for cooking various ingredients, or as a tool of personal defense.”
Main Uses
- Bake food over supported cooking stations
- Dry food using supported cooking methods
- Cook with animal fat
- Store up to 12 slots of items inside the pan
- Use as an improvised melee weapon
- Repair with a Blowtorch when damaged
How to use this item
Cook with a Frying Pan
Use the Frying Pan with a supported cooking station to bake or dry food.
- Find a Frying Pan.
- Place food or ingredients inside the pan.
- Use a supported cooking station such as an oven, house fireplace, fireplace, or gas stove.
- Cook the food using baking or drying methods.
- Remove the food before it burns or becomes ruined.
Use the Frying Pan as storage
Use the Frying Pan as a 12-slot container while keeping in mind that it cannot hold water.
- Place the Frying Pan in your inventory.
- Open its internal storage.
- Store up to 12 slots of items inside it.
- Do not rely on it as a water container because it cannot be filled with water.
Repair a Frying Pan
Repair the Frying Pan with a Blowtorch when it becomes damaged from cooking use.
- Find a Blowtorch.
- Attach a Gas Canister to the Blowtorch if needed.
- Use the Blowtorch on the damaged Frying Pan.
- Repair it before it becomes ruined.
How to get Frying Pan
- Search kitchen loot locations.
- Check houses, kitchens, cabins, and cooking-related loot spots.
- Loot players carrying cookware, cooking supplies, or improvised melee weapons.
Spawn info
- • The Frying Pan is used for cooking food through baking and drying.
- • It cannot be filled with water.
- • It cannot boil water or cook recipes that require water.
- • It can cook with animal fat.
- • It can be used as a melee weapon.
- • It takes 12 inventory slots and provides 12 internal storage slots.
- • It weighs 750 g.
- • It can be repaired with a Blowtorch.
- • It spawns in kitchen loot locations.
- • It is uncommon.
Important notes
- The Frying Pan can be used for cooking, storage, and melee defense.
- It cannot be filled with water.
- It cannot boil water or cook recipes that require water.
- The main cooking methods for the Frying Pan are baking and drying.
- Using animal fat still works with the Frying Pan.
- It can be used at cooking stations that support utensil slots, such as ovens and house fireplaces.
- It takes 12 inventory slots while also providing 12 slots of internal storage.
- It has 200 durability.
- At 200 durability, it lasts about 53 minutes and 20 seconds over a fire before going from pristine to ruined.
- Before version 1.18, cookware durability was half of what it is now, making items like the Frying Pan last about 26 minutes and 40 seconds from pristine to ruined.