This is then spread evenly on a cooking pan. The smallest fish are called panfish, because they can fit in a standard cooking pan. The excavated objects were a bronze vase, a bronze mirror, and a bronze cooking pan. Since 1998 the German cooking pan manufacturer Silit also belongs to the WMF Group. After the chicken is browned, white wine is added to the cooking pan. Most American households had at least one cast-iron cooking pan. A chip pan is a deep-sided cooking pan used for deep-frying. In the UK, a chip pan is a deep-sided cooking pan used for deep-frying. In nearly all Indo-Aryan languages such as Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu "tawaa" means cooking pan.