My purpose, here online today, is to reveal a cookware-industry conspiracy: It almost impossible to find a 10" or smaller frying pan, with a lid, that is not part of a set. I'll repeat myself another way. If you are looking to buy a 10" or smaller frying pan without a lid, you will find plenty of choices, but - add a lid to the purchase requirement - and you have sent yourself on a search equaling the difficulty that Indiana Jones had locating the Holy Grail.
You have a wide array of cookware-set choices, all the way from the very cheap to the very expensive and in every conceivable type of pan from ceramic to non-stick, to aluminum to stainless steel to cast iron. Amazing choices.....but most in sets. Oh, you can find the occasional frying pan that is sold independent of a set but it is almost always WITHOUT A LID.
So, what gives cookware industry? Are you afraid that if you put a lid on your pan that we, the American public will become so enamored with the one-pan concept that sales of your sets will dwindle? What could possibly be the issue of selling 10" and smaller frying pans with lids? Let me assure you that smaller frying pans need lids just as much as the larger frying and sauce pans. They are no less apt to boil over and spew grease droplets than larger pans. Bring on the lids, all you designers of pots, pans and other culinary cooking contraptions.
Just put a lid on it!
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