BANKS Fry Bake Company - Qvist Outdoor Cooking

In 1977 after a backpacking trip with family and friends, Pam Banks and here dad designed the first Fry-Bake. Her dad had the knowledge and experience of metal manufacturing with a facility for production. Pam had the field experience to know where to start with a design. In 1979, the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) and Pam teamed up to purchase the first production run of Expedition model Fry-Bake pans and lids after several prototypes had been tested in the field on NOLS courses and by Instructors then working for the school. Production of the Alpine model pan started in 1988. NOLS continues to use Fry-Bake on their courses. Both the Expedition model pan and the Alpine model pan have changed only very slightly since the first production run in 1979 though after a decade of Bomco, Inc. producing them, N.E. Metal Spinning took over the job and continues to manufacture them today.