Rose Hill, North Carolina -
World's Largest Frying Pan
15 feet in diameter, weighs two tons, can cook 365 chickens at a time. Sheltered under its own special gazebo with a large sign and explanatory plaque.
- Address:
- Main St., Rose Hill, NC
- Directions:
- I-40 exit 380. 3 miles west and turn right onto Hwy 117. Go about 1/4 mile and pan is on the right at the intersection of Hwy 117 and Main Street.
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World's Largest Frying Pan Honestly, the sign on top of the Frying Pan is a bigger attraction. I'd say it is too bad you can't fry cheese in it because it is super cheesy. What it consists of is a large frying apparatus in a small sheltered pavilion. It is covered with a canvas. You can't even really see it, but the sign on the top of the little shelter is cool, and makes for good photos if you travel with papier mache masks...and if you don't, you should. [Billy Sugarfix, 12/22/2010]
"The Pan" is used several times a year for charitable cooking and community celebrations. Our claim to fame may be the "World's Largest Frying Pan" but, we also have the Duplin Wine Cellars-"The FIRST North Carolina Winery" of this era which will offers an accent to your visit with a taste of wine for your health, and a hometown greeting that you will not soon forget. So stop on by at Exit 380 on Interstate 40 in North Carolina and see it for yourself. "The World's Largest Frying Pan" [Vance Herring, 06/22/2005]
World's Largest Frying Pan At first I thought that nothing had changed in the year since I
last visited the World's Largest Frying Pan in Rose Hill, NC but upon closer
inspection I see that the building that surrounds the pan has been treated to a
new coat of white paint. Some of the wooden supports for the building have been
replaced and painted as well. The only thing that was missing from the structure
was the sign declaring the pan as the "world's largest" (part of the sign was on
the ground inside the building in mid-restoration).
Looking WAY back in time at the Roadside America picture of the pan with the Hinged Man (TM), it's clear that Rose Hill has done a lot of updating to the pan and pan house. Metal has been added to the base of the pan to hide the ugly cinder blocks and a fence has been added to the pan shelter building.
Still, even with all these wonderful updates, the pan is still not much to look at. And it stinks. My first visit was in winter so, perhaps, the cold weather was suppressing the abundance of bacteria that give the pan its, er, aromatic qualities. On my latest trip, during a warm day in May, I found the pan to have a rather pungent odor of old cooking oil and left-over chicken parts from who knows when. I'll make sure to make a trip back in late July or August to experience the full olfactory assault of the pan after months sitting in the sweltering Carolina heat. [Greg Brown, 05/30/2001]
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