BRANDON, IOWA Home of Iowa's Largest Fryin' Pan

About Brandon

Brandon, Iowa, is the Home of Iowa's Largest Frying Pan. Why a frying pan, you ask? The frying pan was built in 2004 by residents of the local community of Brandon. It took a little over forty volunteer hours to construct the frying pan, and it was made from scrap donated by local farmers. The pan was originally built as a promotional tool for the Brandon Area Community Club's semi-annual fundraiser, the "Cowboy Breakfast." The frying pan was chosen because the cowboy breakfast is cooked over open flames, mainly using cast iron frying pans.

Brandon is located in NE, Iowa, just a short drive off Interstate 380 and a quick jaunt off the Cedar Valley Nature Trail.

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The Brandon Area Community Club is a non-profit community-based organization that opened in 2007. It is a beautiful setting for your next event. Available for Wedding Receptions, Graduations, Reunions, Showers, Meetings, Community Events, or Auctions. We also sponsor many of the Brandon community events, including Brandon Days in August and Cowboy Breakfast in September each year.

To rent the Brandon Area Community Club or for more information, please see their Facebook page or contact Phyllis Clark at 319-474-2317 or 319-327-0520.

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Iowa's Largest Fryin' Pan

The Fryin' Pan was built in 2004 by several local men to promote Brandn’s Cowboy Breakfast. It took over forty volunteer hours to construct the pan out of donated scrap steel from local farmers. It is modeled (to scale) after a 10-inch cast iron frying pan and measures in with an 8’ base and a max width of 9’ 3” at the rim. Including the 5’ handle the pan is a total length of 14’ 3” and weighs 1,020 pounds!

The frying pan is calculated to hold 88 times as much as a 10-inch frying pan.

528 eggs (44 dozen)
352 half-pound pork chops (176 pounds)
88 pounds of bacon
440 half-pound hamburgers (220 pounds)

The now annual Cowboy Breakfast is held on the third Saturday in September from 8 am-1 pm. The first breakfast was held in 2000 and was originally held semi-annually until 2010. They serve an average of 1000 people each year. Breakfast includes scrambled eggs, ham, sausage, pancakes, fried potatoes, sausage gravy, and baking powder biscuits cooked outside over open fires in cast iron frying pans and Dutch ovens. The profits from the Cowboy Breakfast are used for construction, maintenance, and updates for the Brandon Area Community Center.

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Iowa's Largest Fryin' Pan

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