Another word for fry
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Verb
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- To make a hissing sound when in contact with heat, as a drop of water on hot metal
- To be very popular, exciting, or interesting:
- To be extremely hot
- To form into small, tight curls; frizz; crimp
- To fry or sear with a sizzling noise.
- To curl or crisp, as hair; to frizz; to crinkle.
- To prepare (meat) by this method
- To cook meat or poultry in this manner
- To prepare (poultry or meat) by cutting into pieces and stewing in gravy.
- To mark or emboss with a gridiron.
- To cook on a grill; broil
- To torture by applying heat
- To burn the nap from (cloth) as a process of manufacture
- To expose (the carcass of an animal or fowl) to flame in removing bristles or feathers
- To burn the tips of (hair), as after a haircut
- (Archaic) To dry up; wither
- To brand or cauterize with a hot iron
- To brown (meat) quickly using very high heat.
- To fry quickly in a small amount of oil over high heat while stirring continuously.
- To fry something quickly in hot oil whilst constantly stirring; especially in a wok or similar pan
- In Chinese cooking, to fry (diced or sliced vegetables, meat, etc.) very quickly in a wok, with a little oil, while stirring constantly
- To fry (potato strips, for example) in deep fat.
- To fry in very hot deep fat until crisp
- To cook (food) by deep-frying.
- To fry by immersing in a deep utensil of fat or oil:
- To make or become brown, esp. by exposure to sunlight, as in tanning, or to heat, as in cooking
- To cook until brown.
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