noun
definition
A deep cooking vessel with a handle and sometimes a lid; used for boiling, stewing and making sauces.
Examples of saucepans in a Sentence
There is no risk from using aluminum saucepans or from drinking tea, which contains traces of the metal.
I find the perfect solution is to cook the apple and melt the suet in separate saucepans before adding them to the remaining ingredients.
All four of the saucepans have heat tempered glass lids with steam vents.
The Kitchen The new Spinflo 3 burner hob with large high speed multi-function burner accommodates larger saucepans and even woks.
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Saucepans come in sizes anywhere from one to twelve liters and are used for anything from sauce, as the name implies, to cooking small batches of soup or boiling pasta.