Frying pan allowed in carry on?
 

I looked up the TSA website but couldn't figure out if a frying pan is allowed in carryon.

On one hand, a frying pan could be a weapon. On the other hand, only a crazy person would use it as a weapon. Fists, pens, shoes, or farts are equally good or better weapons.

I am going to stay at an extended stay type hotel for a week and want to have a frying pan.

Ummm, won't the extended stay hotel have a frypan if they have cooking facilities?

very likely, but perhaps not of the quality that OP prefers ...

If you have it in your carryon, it might get looked at when it goes through the scanner simply because it is unusual. I've taken an iron frying pan as a gift before.

Haven't stayed in one for a while but one had no cookware and another had only 1 or 2 sauce pans. I suppose you could fry an egg in that.

Correction: I think I remember that the one with no cookware had only a sink, refrigerator, and microwave, no stovetop or cooktop.

Plan A should be to use one of those telephone machines to ask someone at the hotel if there are frying pans in the room. If not, then bring your own.

Plan B is to go the nearest Dollar Tree or similar store.

+1

I actually tend to be picky about my cookware at home, but on the road I just accept that I'll have to work with whatever is there.

I've found that in extended stay places, often the cookware is fine. It's the knives and other utensils that I have to go buy throwaway versions of...

Plan C just requires a trip to Dollar Tree to pick up aluminum foil :)
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OP, honestly, I don't think there is any definitive answer to your question. TSA doesn't explicitly list "frying pan" as either allowed or disallowed because it's something not commonly found in carryons, and they can't possibly list thousands of items. Without it explicitly on any list, it will be up to the discretion (or whim, if you prefer) of the individual TSA agent who screens your carryon. If the TSA agent chooses to view it as a harmless cooking item, then it will be allowed. It the TSA agent chooses to view it as a "weapon" (analogous to a club), then it will be forbidden. Realistically, nobody can give the quantitative probabilities of these two outcomes with high confidence.

If you're talking about a rather large and heavy (such as cast iron) frying pan, I could definitely see a TSA agent forbidding it to pass screening.

Good! Actually, Plan A is to see if they have cookware of any kind. I think they don't have a frying pan. Maybe I'll use a saucepan instead.
At home, none of my cookware or cutlery (flatware) is made in the People's Republic of China. While traveling, maybe I will compromise. Once I ate with Russian made cutlery. Yuk

You are right. Thinking of bringing a small one or maybe just use the hotel's saucepan.

How 'bout pressure cookers?

Hot pots are, and so are rice cookers...no problem...

Lot of Asians use them for soups...

Many years ago, long before the TSA but not before there were security checks, a woman hijacked a plane using a pressure cooker.

The security inspector allowed it because anyone could see that it was just a pressure cooker. But when the woman stood up in the aisle and said that it was a bomb, no one was about to argue.