Hold the picture of the pan itself: flat metal, low sides, a long handle, sitting straight on the heat. Food in it has nowhere to hide — it touches the hot surface and browns fast, and one shake of the handle turns it over. Everything on this page comes from that one hot, shallow, open pan, including the saying, where jumping out of it only drops you into the flames underneath.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary records frying pan as coming from Middle English fryyng panne, which is simply frying + pan — the pan you fry in. The name has stayed transparent, which is why the object and the picture match so exactly.
Wiktionary 記錄 frying pan 來自中古英文的 fryyng panne，等於 frying（煎）加上 pan（鍋），就是「煎東西的那只鍋」。名字到現在還是拆得開，所以字和畫面幾乎完全對得上。
Wiktionary entry 'frying pan' (noun), etymology_text in packet: 'From Middle English fryyng panne; equivalent to frying + pan.' (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:901661558)
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