frying

Examples

• All

• It's been years since I smelled bacon frying.

  Air Buddies (2006)

• In the days of poverty, the big frying pan in the kitchen served the same purpose.

  Fiction book (1993)

• The detail of the eggs frying in hot oil is a master class.

• OK, OK, I'm going to show you some of my favorite frying instruments.

• -Do I smell bacon frying?

  Criminally Insane (1975)

• He used to take a frying pan and just put cheese in it.

  Your Sister's Sister (2011)

• The catfish just jumped right into your frying pan.

  Parental Guidance (2012)

• Heat 1 tablespoon of butter in a frying pan and add the mushroom slices, salt, and pepper.

  Academic text (1990)

• The aroma and the crackling sound of bacon frying made him think of his family's house in Asheville.

  Fiction book (1995)

• While she moved around the kitchen, cracking eggshells and frying bacon, she hummed softly, one hymn blending with another.

  Fiction book (1996)

Synonyms

S

sauteing

vsfrying

3.2

To cook food quickly in a little oil in a hot pan

is a broader pan method using hot fat not always quick or minimal fat

Idioms

O

out of the frying pan, into the fire

• Informal

7.3

Escaping a bad situation and ending in a much worse one

Compounds

F

frying pan

23 1.0

A shallow pan with a long handle for cooking food in hot oil

E

electric frying pan

• US

2.8

A pan with a built-in electric heater that cooks food without a stove

How Oily

to deep-fry

8 2.8

frying

62 1.0

to pan-fry

3 2.9

sauteing

3.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology