Walkthrough for the quest A Frying Pan, Spick and Span in the game Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. This page covers all main objectives, key steps, or helpful tips to guide you through the quest smoothly. Whenever possible, the guide points out locations for key items and details interactions with NPCs, among other tips. To ensure maximum clarity, in-game screenshots are included for easy-to-follow visual guidance.
Quest Group: Secondary Quests
Location: White Orchard
To start this quest, talk to the Old Woman you meet near the abandoned and locked hut. She will ask you to help her get back the frying pan she lent to the hut's resident.
Many think that the life of a witcher consists of nothing but adventure after grand adventure, an endless stream of contracts on manticores, bruxae and other exotic beasts. In truth, Geralt would often take on more banal tasks, ones lesser bards fear mentioning, for they lack the skill required to make a masterwork of the mundane. By way of example, once in White Orchard he was hired to retrieve a woman's... frying pan.
Old Woman
White Orchard
To get inside, use your sword or Aard sign to destroy the front door to the hut.
You'll find the frying pan in the kitchen. It's on the table next to the oven.
In one of the rooms of the house you will find a man's corpse. Examine it, pick up the silver monocle lying on the floor, and read the burned papers you will find next to the stove in the kitchen. This will help you find out what happened in the house.
A mysterious gentleman had borrowed the frying pan from a little old lady and not returned it. While investigating this damned unneighborly act, Geralt discovered the delinquent borrower had other, more serious sins on his conscience... murder, for example. The half-burned notes Geralt found in his abandoned hut made it clear he was interested in the movements of Nilfgaardian forces and confidential military secrets - in other words, the man was a spy.
Go back to the old lady waiting for you in front of the house and give her the pan. As a reward, you'll get baked apple x 5, bread x 5, and apple juice x 5 from her.
Geralt found the frying pan and returned it to the old woman. She was overcome with joy and gratitude - not only did she have her precious cooking utensil back, but someone had scrubbed it clean for her as well!
