Iowa's Largest Frying Pan

Iowa’s Largest Frying Pan is located in the small city of Brandon, Iowa, United States.

History

The frying pan was built in 2004 by men of the local community of Brandon. It took these men a little over forty volunteer man hours to construct the frying pan. It is made out of scrap steel that was donated by local farmers. The pan was originally built as a promotional tool for the Brandon Area Community Club’s semi-annual fundraiser, the cowboy breakfast. They chose to build a large frying pan because the cowboy breakfast is cooked over open flames using mostly cast iron frying pans.

Dimensions

It is quantitatively 10 times the size of a 10-inch frying pan.
*Weight: 1,200 pounds
*Total length: 14 feet 3 inches
*Rim diameter: 9 feet 3 inches
*Base diameter: 8 feet
*Handle length: 5 feet

Capacity

The frying pan is calculated to hold 88 times as much as a 10-inch frying pan.
*528 eggs (44 dozen)
*352 pork chops (1/2 pound chops)
*88 pounds of bacon
*440 hamburgers (1/2 pound Burgers)

World ranking

When the Brandon area locals built the frying pan they never considered checking to see if there were any other large frying pans anywhere else in the world. They later found out that in Long Beach, Washington the world’s largest frying pan existed measuring 14 feet 6 inches in total length and 9 feet 6 inches rim diameter, a mere 3 inches larger than Iowa's largest frying pan. After much research the creators realized that there were many frying pans that claimed to be the world's largest pan so they just called it Iowa's largest frying pan. It probably ranks second or third in the world depending on the size of the pans in Maine and North Carolina.

See also Frying pan#World's largest, which claims the title for a 10-foot pan in Delaware.

External links

* [http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/9449 Roadside America listing]