Adulting can be really difficult especially because there isn’t a manual on how to do it. Now you may know that there are a few things you will need when moving into your first apartment. This includes cookware. Your cookware will usually include a few pots and pans of different sizes. Now if you are in a rush to move then you might only grab a pan to good with. At first glance, you may think that you can’t cook anything in just one pan but you are wrong. There are a number of different dishes that you can actually cook in a pan. Simply take a look.

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Pans are probably the most underestimated cookware item there is. This is because pans are typically very small and don’t have a lot of space. But what you don’t know is that there are a variety of things you can actually cook in a pan. This may come as a surprise but you can actually cook an entire meal in one single pan. With that said you have a number of different options available to you. First, you can obviously cook things that require many ingredients. This speaks to your eggs, bacon, and other small meals such as risottos.

Speaking of risottos, there are a number of different rice-based dishes you can cook in a pan This includes paella rice. Although paella has a lot of different components to it, it can all be cooked in one pan on the stove. Next, you can obviously cook meats in a pan. This will include dishes like stir fry, streaks, and different chicken dishes. Don’t worry, even though we didn’t mention it, you can also do a number of different vegetable dishes and fish dishes in a pan. You see if you only have a pan in your kitchen it doesn’t mean that you have to go hungry.