Here are 3 examples:
Fried egg, fried rice, fried chicken
All these “fry” are different. If you were to use the “fry” in fried rice to fry an egg, you’d get scrambled egg. Fried chicken is done by submerging it in oil, which you won’t do with fried egg or fried rice.
This post is made from the perspective of a Cantonese/Chinese speaker. We have different words for these different types of “fry” (煎, 炒, 炸 respectively)
(Turns out I did post it in the wrong sub and I didn’t realize, and now I feel very stupid. Photon UI has once again screwed me over. Got mad for no reason.)
Fry means to cook with oil.
You have pan frying, deep frying, shallow frying, they all have additional descriptors, and you can usually infer the type from the product. You can always say deep fried chicken, but that’s also assumed when you say “fried chicken” already. If it’s fried different you would maybe say “pan fried chicken” instead.
Maybe with hot oil?
I don’t think confit would be considered frying.
Slow frying would be an apt description for a confit duck breast.
A true deep Fry meme
Shut up and take my upvote!
Wait until you run into the other usages of the word!
But frying food is just using direct heat and oil to cook, regardless of the depth of the oil. And, you’d be surprised how deep the oil is when some people fry eggs or rice. It isn’t too unusual for eggs to have enough oil that they more or less float on top of it, though that isn’t done for scrambled eggs.
The word fry is also used to mean baby fish, electronics being damaged by surges or excess voltage/amperage, and sometimes even to indicate that someone is inebriated via drugs other than alcohol. Plus there’s irregular uses of the word.
Don’t forget vocal fry.
And the most common use of the fish version is to describe a person or animal as a “small fry” when comparing them to another similar group.
No, it isn’t.
You forgot the small fry that will be vader someday later.
… which is a term based on the word for small fish.
“To fry” means to cook in oil or fat. A distinction we can make is “deep fry” like the chicken, and “pan fry” for the other 2. We don’t use woks as much here so really the only difference between fried rice and a fried egg is whether you stir it or flip it, but both are still cooked in a pan with oil.
Frying is basically conveying heat to the food via oil
Sometimes after an aggressive cannabis consuming session I myself even become fried.
Scrambled egg is still fried egg
You can make scrambled egg without any oil or butter if you have a really good non-stick pan.
Never mind the small fry. The word “put” has enough different meanings to fry your CPU.
Nope, nothing ambiguous to me.
To fry means to cook in a fat. That is all.
That’s like saying “blue” is ambiguous simply because there’s also 13 different Pantone blues.
English cooking vocabulary matches the sofistication of their cuisine
Fry is the name for baby fish.
This is why you sometimes have to make it specific by saying “deep fried” or “pan fried”.
Deep fried? Can I get deeper fried ones? How about the deepest fried ones?
Or isn’t this like the cooked stages of steak?
Non-native speaker, too.
Deep frying is when there’s like a bowl of oil that you completely submerge the food in.
Pan frying is when it’s just a light layer of oil.
Stir fry is like pan fry, but you stir while frying.
Check out variations section of the Wikipedia article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frying
Deep frying specificaly refers to frying by submerging in hot oil. Fried chicken is deep fried.
