Showerthoughts

29172 readers

297 users here now

A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

Rules

All posts must be showerthoughts
The entire showerthought must be in the title
Posts must be original/unique
Be good to others - no bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia
Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

quinten@lemmy.world

vatlark@lemmy.world

forkball@lemmy.world

Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world

"Fry" is an ambiguous word in English (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by NorthWestWind@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

61 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This is why you sometimes have to make it specific by saying "deep fried" or "pan fried".

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 3 points 2 months ago

Deep fried means submerged in oil

[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 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.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] odium@programming.dev 1 points 2 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: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frying