The Golden Frying Pan is a melee weapon for all classes. It is a Frying Pan, either plated with or made of pure Australium.
This weapon functions identically to the default melee weapon for the player's chosen class, but with added cosmetic functions: upon contact with a player or surface, it plays Frying Pan weapon sounds from Left 4 Dead 2, and any enemies killed with it produce motionless statues of pure Australium instead of the normal ragdolls. Any jiggle bones on enemy ragdolls are also frozen by this effect. In addition, a special sound effect unique to this weapon, the Golden Wrench, and the Saxxy is played upon killing any enemy. However, unlike the Spy's other melee weapons, the Golden Frying Pan does not have a unique raising animation to indicate an enemy can be backstabbed.
Upon killing an enemy as Engineer, unique voice lines play.
Golden Frying Pans can be obtained in Strange quality with a pre-applied Professional Killstreak Kit as a very rare reward for completing an Advanced or Expert Tour of Duty in Mann Up mode.
Damage and function times
Scout
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Damage type
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Melee
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Ranged or Melee damage?
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Melee
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Damage
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Base damage
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100%
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35
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Critical
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105
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Mini-crit
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47
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Function times
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Attack interval
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0.5 s
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Values are approximate and determined by community testing.
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Engineer
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Damage type
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Melee
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Ranged or Melee damage?
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Melee
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Damage
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Base damage
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100%
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65
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Critical
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195
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Mini-crit
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88
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Damage repaired per hit
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102
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Upgrade amount per hit
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25
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Metal cost per repairing hit
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1 + damage / 3
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Metal cost for reloading ammo
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1 / bullet 2 / rocket salvo
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Function times
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Attack interval
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0.8 s
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Values are approximate and determined by community testing.
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[collapse]Damage and function times
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Damage type
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Melee
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Ranged or Melee damage?
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Melee
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Damage
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Base damage
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100%
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65
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Critical
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195
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Mini-crit
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88
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Function times
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Attack interval
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0.8 s
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Values are approximate and determined by community testing.
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Spy
[collapse]Damage and function times
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Damage type
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Melee
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Ranged or Melee damage?
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Melee
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Damage
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Base damage
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100%
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40
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Backstab
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600%
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Critical
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120
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Mini-crit
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54
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Function times
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Attack interval
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0.8 s
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Values are approximate and determined by community testing.
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Demonstration
Strange variant
[expand]Strange variant information
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Strange Golden Frying Pan Strange Golden Frying Pan - Kills: 0 Imbued with an ancient power Killstreaker: [Effect] Sheen: [Color] Killstreaks Active
Only the first statistic counts towards the strange rank.
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Related achievements
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Clearcutter Kill 6 people with your axe in one life.
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Lumberjack Kill 3 people with your axe in one life.
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Communist Mani-Fisto Kill an enemy with a critical punch.
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Built to Last Help a single building tank over 2000 damage without being destroyed.
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Circle the Wagons Repair 50,000 damage to friendly buildings constructed by other players.
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Doc, Stock, and Barrel Repair a sentry gun under fire while being healed by a Medic.
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Get Along! Manage to get to, and then remove, a sapper placed on your building while you were several meters away.
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Land Grab Help a teammate construct a building.
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Quick Draw Kill a Spy and two sappers within 10 seconds.
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Rio Grind Perform 50 repairs and/or reloads on a Sentry gun being Wrangled by another Engineer.
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Silent Pardner Upgrade 50 buildings built by other team members.
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Blunt Trauma Assist in punching 2 enemies with a single ÜberCharge on a Heavy.
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Peer Review Kill 10 Medics with your bone saw.
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Sawbones Hit enemies with your bonesaw 5 times in a row without dying or missing.
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Jarate Chop Jarate and then kill 3 enemies with your Kukri.
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A Cut Above Kill a gun-wielding Spy with your knife.
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Agent Provocateur Backstab your Steam Community friends 10 times.
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FYI I am a Spy Backstab a Medic who has healed you in the last 5 seconds.
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May I Cut In? Backstab an enemy and the Medic healing him within 10 seconds of each other.
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Slash and Burn Backstab an enemy, who then switches to Pyro before they respawn.
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The Man from P.U.N.C.T.U.R.E. Stab an enemy while fencing.
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Wetwork Stab an enemy to death while under the influence of Jarate.
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You Only Shiv Thrice Backstab 3 enemies within 10 seconds.
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Update history
November 21, 2013 Patch (Two Cities Update)
- [Undocumented] The Golden Frying Pan was added to the game.
May 29, 2014 [Item schema update]
November 4, 2014 Patch
- Fixed the Engineer not playing the proper response rules while using the Golden Frying Pan.
September 16, 2021 Patch
- Updated Golden Wrench, Saxxy, and Golden Frying Pan kills to use the Australium background for death notices.
Bugs
- If the Strange counter on the Golden Frying Pan is reset while playing, its appearance looks like a regular pan until a resupply locker is used or the player respawns.
- This also occurs if a player picks up a Golden Frying Pan from the ground and the original owner disconnects from the server.
- A rare lighting glitch can occur where the Australium statues appear white, similar to the ice sculptures left behind by a backstab with the Spy-cicle.
Trivia
- Similarly to the Saxxy and the Golden Wrench, the Golden Frying Pan broadcasts a message to everyone currently in-game when either found or deleted by a user:
- Upon being found, the message reads: "[Player] just received a Golden Frying Pan!".
- Upon deletion, the message reads: "[Player] has destroyed their Golden Frying Pan!".
Gallery
[hide]Gallery — First-person views
- First-person views
- Statues
- Other
BLU Soldier first person view.
RED Pyro first person view.
BLU Pyro first person view.
RED Medic first person view.
BLU Medic first person view.
RED Spy first person view.
BLU Spy first person view.
In-game notification when a Golden Frying Pan is deleted.
A movie poster referencing the Golden Frying Pan, as seen on Galleria.
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