Frying Pan

The frying-pan appears in the UPDV scriptures only in the meal-offering laws of Leviticus, where it stands beside the oven and the baking-pan as one of the alternative methods for preparing the grain offering. Both occurrences are practical: how the offering is dressed, and who eats it afterward.

Fine Flour with Oil

The first regulation gives the basic recipe. "And if your oblation is a meal-offering of the frying-pan, it will be made of fine flour with oil" (Lev 2:7). The frying-pan is one of three named cooking-modes for the meal-offering in Leviticus 2 — alongside the oven and the baking-pan — and the ingredients here are the same as in the other modes: fine flour and oil.

The Priest's Portion

The second occurrence names who eats what is offered. "And every meal-offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is dressed in the frying-pan, and on the baking-pan, will be the priest's that offers it" (Lev 7:9). All three cooked forms of the offering go to the priest who presents it. The frying-pan, the oven, and the baking-pan are listed together — different vessels for the same offering, all with the same destination.