Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A deep cooking pan with a handle.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Originally, a pan for cooking sauces.
- n. A small metallic vessel for cooking, having a cover, and a long handle projecting nearly horizontally from the side.
Wiktionary
- n. countable, cooking A deep cooking vessel with a handle and sometimes a lid; used for boiling, stewing and making sauces.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A small pan with a handle, in which sauce is prepared over a fire; a stewpan.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a deep pan with a handle; used for stewing or boiling
Examples
“Combine powder, sugar and 1 tbsp of milk to a paste in saucepan, add remaining milk and heat to just under the boil.”
“Place in saucepan with water to cover 1 inch, bring to a boil and cook for 1-2 minutes.”
“Melt butter and chocolate in saucepan over low heat.”
“Heat oil in saucepan; add onion and garlic and saute until lightly browned.”
“Melt a stick of butter in saucepan on medium until nutty brown.”
“A wide saucepan is ideal for making aloo gobi as it has a large surface area for the vegetables to come in contact with heat.”
“Melt fruit spread in saucepan, then spread evenly over baked batter.”
“Pour boiling water over flat lids in saucepan off the heat.”
“Shell beans and place in saucepan with water to cover.”
“Remove the saucepan from the heat and stir in the grated cheese, stirring until the cheese is melted.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘saucepan’.
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kitchen utensils
glass, knife, fork, teapot, oven, spoon, plate, frying pan, saucepan, masher, spatula, strainer and 13 more...
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Asterisms
Although Orion's Belt and The Big Dipper (or The Plough) are not official constellations, they are still quite familiar to stargazers. Such groupings of stars are called asterisms.
summer triangle, big dipper, little dipper, coathanger, plough, spring triangle, diamond of Virgo, great square of P..., winter circle, Orion's belt, keystone, diamond cross and 19 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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Jacqueline's Words
glittery, horny, amazing, wanderlust, forlorn, lustily, nonchalant, cool, passive, submissive, roundabout, carousel and 558 more...
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Food and Cooking
lasagna, vindaloo, lemon grass, nutmeg, origano, basil, risotto, fenugreek, saffron, arborio rice, basmati rice, paella and 14 more...
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rudabeckia's Words
cross, wholly, lobe, sauce, quarrel, horrid, wooly, chutney, cheery, starling, vex, woolen and 67 more...
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foodie list
pan, gourmet, mincing, clam, oyster, geoduck, scallop, meringue, baste, garam masala, rarebit, phyllo and 66 more...
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container for the thing contained
sundry vessels
-with apologies to James Thurber.samovar, urn, kettle, cauldron, barrel, grail, amphora, creel, butt, flagon, vase, reliquary and 53 more...
Tweets
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kewpid I have never made sauce in one. Feb 17, 2008