The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word SAUCEPAN
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More clues leading to the result SAUCEPAN
- Cause pain somehow when dropping one kitchen item
- Vessel has slate on lip
- Lip on short piece of glass vessel
- Pot: range holds one filled with last of tofu
- Brass hammer – a sine qua non on the range?
- Cheek to criticise cook’s resource?
- Perhaps Daddy’s getting roast for cooking pot
- In which to cook small golden pecan nuts
- Kitchen utensil, brass, not entirely long
- In which to cook odd bits of 10 pecan nuts
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What does SAUCEPAN mean?
SAUCEPAN noun- A deep cooking vessel with a handle and sometimes a lid; used for boiling, stewing and making sauces.