Folding fryingpan DIY

[John Fenna]

I am planning a "DIY Camp" where I will not be allowed a single bit of kit (except safety kit) and realised that I would need a fryingpan....
Now - I would never claim any metal working skills, have only rudimentary tools (my "pillar drill is a Woolworths - yes Woolworths - electric drill in an Aldi drill stand) and my source materials are limited - in this case to a pair of old metal plates I was going to get rid of...
Those with skills, tools and materials may have gone for a fuller and rolled edges on the handle (cut from one plate) to stiffen it and stop it bouncing like a spring - I screwed on an off cut of wood from the firewood pile ...using over-length screws as I had no others and then grinding the tips off....
However, my last improv fryingpan was the lid off a biscuit tin with a length of sapling nailed on as a handle and that did duty for over a year!
This one is only intended to last a couple of trips but may do better.
Time spent making it - about half an hour from conception to finish ... all done beteen my morning exercise routine and breakfast (my hour long routine is a great time for thinking!
The finished item - I may let you know how it fares in the field after the DIY Camp!

 

[crosslandkelly]

Nicely done John, fuction over form. It certainly looks like it will work well.

 

[Brizzlebush]

Brilliant stuff John.
It's got more character than some of that new titanium-non-stick-self-washing-collapsible-into a matchbox nonsense.

It might be a tad heavier though.

 

[John Fenna]

Lighter than my cast iron favourite!

 

[Brizzlebush]

Lighter than my cast iron favourite!
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Lovely kuksa and DIY kit in the other thread btw. Sorry to be "off thread". Is that a thing? Apologies if it is, this forum lark isn't my strong point!

 

[Clanchief]

I’ve been using a Stabilo therm hunting pan with folding handle for some time, can’t see it ever wearing out as it’s steel, once seasoned is perfect. Stainless plates and pans just don’t take a film of seasoning like a steel/iron pan.

 

[John Fenna]

I swear by my cast iron - totally non stick now and a joy to use - but it does not qualify for my "DIY Camp" self inflicted rules!

 

[dwardo]

Proof is in the pudding, or breakfast in this case. Lets see the bacon n eggs pics

 

[Robson Valley]

Can't be much to go wrong to cook on a really greasy piece of roofing slate.
Any good places to dig up some of your own?

Quite a comfortable showcase of DIY.
You have addressed the single most valuable issue = staying as warm as need be.

 

[John Fenna]

I have often used Slate to cook on - we are in a Slate producing part of Wales - and I have made shaped frying stones in the past ... but they are very fragile for carrying...
Frying stone/pot lid seen here among some other bits of my "Primitives" collection... all my own work save for the obsidian blade