#FryingPan August 21
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August 2026 several of us are going to take on the 30-Day Plugged in Coach4aday Challenge. Each day, we will feature an item from home or office that requires being plugged into a source of electricity to operate. We will reflect on how it makes life easier. For Day 21 it is the FRYING PAN.
If you grew up in a household in the 1960’s or 1970’s you may remember the Presto or Oster Frying Pan. In the modern kitchen this skillet has been replaced with slow cookers, air fryers, and induction stovetops but it had its heyday.
Day 21-Electric Frying Pan or Skillet
Electric Frying Pan let you cook without a stove as long as you had an electric outlet.
Here are the significant decades for this appliance.
1930s–1940s — Electric skillets enter American homes
Companies such as Westinghouse and other appliance manufacturers marketed electric cooking appliances. Adoption was initially limited by cost and by the fact that many American homes—particularly rural homes—did not yet have reliable electricity.
1950s — The electric skillet boom
This was an important period for the appliance. Postwar prosperity and the rapid expansion of household electrification helped make electric skillets increasingly popular. The ability to cook anywhere there was an electrical outlet was a significant selling point.
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