Comment on "Fry" is an ambiguous word in English

MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Samsy@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Deep fried means submerged in oil

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  • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A “deep fry” is distinguished by totally submerging the food in oil, as opposed to a shallow fry (less often said, but still used) where something is fried in hot oil, but not enough to totally cover it. I thiiiiink Mandarin makes a similar distinction with the use of “broad oil” versus “bottom oil”, but I don’t speak Mandarin and I’m taking that from the rough translations from Chinese cooking videos I watch.

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  • odium@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frying

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  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Deep frying specificaly refers to frying by submerging in hot oil. Fried chicken is deep fried.

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