saucepan

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"It could be a person, it could be an animal, a flower, a film, a photograph in the newspaper, just anything. A saucepan in the kitchen, boiling, you know, the steam coming…"

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

All you have to do is pour the gravy into a saucepan, warm it up and serve it in a gravy boat.

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2025

In the stubborn memory of a perfect saucepan.

From Salon • May 12, 2025

A good rule of thumb is to have your sugar solution fill approximately three quarters to an inch of your saucepan.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2025

Already, even from the drawing room, it was possible to hear an occasional muffled bad-tempered shout and the clang of a saucepan hitting the hob with unnatural force.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan