A question for those math and physics folks: I'm thinking about killing two birds with one stone and replacing both my old beat up frypan and small cooking pot. I'm thinking about an eight-inch Sea to Summit or Jetboil skillet. We only use a small cooking pot to boil water in for the most part.

Here's my question: if I have an 8 inch round skillet filled with water to 1 inch, what will the volume of water be? If it's 2 cups, then I might get the new skillet and use it for both boiling water and frying stuff.

Mike

h*pi*r^2, where h is height, is volume. Assume units are in inches.
One cup is 14.4375 cubic inches.

Sorry I do not have a sea to summit or Jet Boil
No math here, but I did fill them to find the volume.

I do have a GSI 8 inch fry pan. It measures 8 inches at the bottom and 8 1/2 inch's at the lip with a slightly curved outward side. it is around 2 inches tall. Two cups of water fills it about half way. Full to the brim is about 5 1/2 cups

I also have a titanium 8 inch skillet that is 1 1/2 inches tall with straight sides. It also fits 2 cups of water with room to spare. Full to the Brim is 4 1/4 cups.

They both are a bit tippy filled with water.

Volume of a cylinder: V = h x 3.14 x r* (squared). 1 x 3.14 x 16 = 50.24 cu in
50.24 cu in = 3.48 US cups. V = volume, h = height, 3.14 is pi, r = radius (in this case
the diameter (distance across) the pan is 8 so the radius (half the distance) is 4.
So after that, filling the pan to 1" you would have about 3 1/2 cups.

I distinctly remember missing this one on my ACT test45 years ago.

Adam told me there would be no math!!

Thanks everyone. This is great information and I'm glad I asked.

Mike

I like the idea. Anything to drop weight and space.
You might want to try it at home first - pouring hot water out of a wider frypan and into a coffee cup might be a little trickier than out of a pot.

Oh dear...imperial measurements. If you had only asked in metric. Then I still couldn't help but at least you could have avoided my pedantic nattering.

I like math but also efficiency. Take 2 cups of water and pour that into a kitchen skillet or pot close to 8 inches. I bet it's less than 1/2 inch.

butthead

I agree that you would want to try this out before committing to using only a skillet. I know I'd slosh too much and spill everywhere if I were boiling water in a skillet, and that's on the stove at home. Are you going to be doing this on the fire grate or a gas stove? Either way, you might want to find a solution to the pouring problem, like a funnel or wide mouth container.

As the OP let me say this: I recognize the difficulty I may encounter using a skillet to double as a pot. That's something I need to think about. We only use a smaller pot when we make dishes requiring two. We don't use it to heat hot water that much so pouring into another receptacle won't be a problem we face too much.

But it all fits into the calculation of composition of my cook kit.

Mike

This thread just proves there are 3 types of people in the world:


Those who can do math, and those who cannot!!

(Just having fun, sorry if I offend anyone, not my intent)

MikeinMpls: "A question for those math and physics folks: I'm thinking about killing two birds with one stone and replacing both my old beat up frypan and small cooking pot. I'm thinking about an eight-inch Sea to Summit or Jetboil skillet. We only use a small cooking pot to boil water in for the most part.

Here's my question: if I have an 8 inch round skillet filled with water to 1 inch, what will the volume of water be? If it's 2 cups, then I might get the new skillet and use it for both boiling water and frying stuff.

Mike"

I'd reckoned the one that comes with a lid.

Mo63021: "This thread just proves there are 3 types of people in the world:



Those who can do math, and those who cannot!!

(Just having fun, sorry if I offend anyone, not my intent)
"

thats pretty funny

My concern with this plan would be using my frying pan to boil water.

No matter the volume I would not want to drink it. I can never get my pans clean enough, but maybe you have more success in that area.

Good luck!